Yan Zang

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yan Zang is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Control and Systems Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Zang has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Computational Mechanics, 2 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 2 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yan Zang's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (4 papers), Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (4 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (3 papers). Yan Zang is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (4 papers), Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (4 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (3 papers). Yan Zang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. Yan Zang's co-authors include Robert L. Street, Jeffrey R. Koseff, Maria Vittoria Salvetti, Siddhartha Banerjee, S. Meriani, Ben R. Hodges, Shangce Gao, Kaiyu Wang and Yuki Todo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics and Journal of Applied Crystallography.

In The Last Decade

Yan Zang

11 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

A dynamic mixed subgrid-scale model and its application t... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 1994 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A dynamic mixed subgrid-scale model and its application to turbulent recirculating flows
    1993 577 citations Yan Zang, Robert L. Street et al. Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics profile →
  2. A Non-staggered Grid, Fractional Step Method for Time-Dependent Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Curvilinear Coordinates
    1994 514 citations Yan Zang, Robert L. Street et al. Journal of Computational Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yan Zang United States 7 1.0k 392 203 175 125 11 1.2k
Srinivas V. Veeravalli India 9 696 0.7× 385 1.0× 162 0.8× 144 0.8× 78 0.6× 28 887
Fumimaru Ogino Japan 17 1.1k 1.0× 184 0.5× 171 0.8× 103 0.6× 164 1.3× 46 1.3k
J.-C. Lin United States 22 1.1k 1.1× 434 1.1× 614 3.0× 101 0.6× 66 0.5× 42 1.3k
Kiyosi Horiuti Japan 16 1.1k 1.1× 485 1.2× 271 1.3× 149 0.9× 100 0.8× 32 1.2k
Laurent Mydlarski Canada 16 958 0.9× 473 1.2× 274 1.3× 187 1.1× 71 0.6× 57 1.2k
F. T. Smith United Kingdom 25 1.6k 1.5× 224 0.6× 304 1.5× 109 0.6× 220 1.8× 51 1.9k
Robert R. Hwang Taiwan 17 567 0.5× 164 0.4× 171 0.8× 79 0.5× 82 0.7× 56 809
Th. Dracos Switzerland 10 547 0.5× 206 0.5× 160 0.8× 85 0.5× 60 0.5× 18 829
Georgios H. Vatistas Canada 16 847 0.8× 122 0.3× 372 1.8× 85 0.5× 164 1.3× 83 1.1k
Richard A. Skop United States 16 786 0.8× 541 1.4× 194 1.0× 97 0.6× 88 0.7× 61 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Zang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Zang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yan Zang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yan Zang. The network helps show where Yan Zang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Zang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Zang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan Zang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yan Zang. Yan Zang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Wang, Kaiyu, et al.. (2024). Fractional-Order Water Flow Optimizer. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. 17(1). 2 indexed citations
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Salvetti, Maria Vittoria, Yan Zang, Robert L. Street, & Siddhartha Banerjee. (1997). Large-eddy simulation of free-surface decaying turbulence with dynamic subgrid-scale models. Physics of Fluids. 9(8). 2405–2419. 30 indexed citations
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Zang, Yan, et al.. (1996). On the Whirl Dynamics of Hydrodynamic Bearing Spindle in Information Storage Systems. 73–84. 4 indexed citations
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Hodges, Ben R., Robert L. Street, & Yan Zang. (1996). A method for simulation of viscous, non-linear, free-surface flows ∗. 5 indexed citations
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Zang, Yan & Robert L. Street. (1995). A composite multigrid method for calculating unsteady incompressible flows in geometrically complex domains. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 20(5). 341–361. 46 indexed citations
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Zang, Yan & Robert L. Street. (1995). Numerical simulation of coastal upwelling and inerfacial instability of a rotaion and stratified fluid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 305. 47–75. 36 indexed citations
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Zang, Yan, Robert L. Street, & Jeffrey R. Koseff. (1994). A Non-staggered Grid, Fractional Step Method for Time-Dependent Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Curvilinear Coordinates. Journal of Computational Physics. 114(1). 18–33. 514 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zang, Yan & S. Meriani. (1994). Scaling functions for the finite-size effect in fractal aggregates. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 27(5). 782–790. 13 indexed citations
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Zang, Yan, Robert L. Street, & Jeffrey R. Koseff. (1993). A dynamic mixed subgrid-scale model and its application to turbulent recirculating flows. Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics. 5(12). 3186–3196. 577 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zang, Yan, Robert L. Street, & Jeffrey R. Koseff. (1993). Application of a dynamic subgrid-scale model to turbulent recirculating flows. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 85–95. 6 indexed citations

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