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Li Qiao

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2006Rising activity
Combustion and flame dynamicsCombustion and Detonation ProcessesEnergetic Materials and CombustionAdvanced Combustion Engine TechnologiesRocket and propulsion systems research

Publications

104

Citations

3,389

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

20

Publishing since 2006

Research summary
AI-generated

This publication record spans a highly diverse set of topics, including combustion and engine research (pre-chamber jet ignition, optical engines, rocket motor flow prediction), geothermal and thermal engineering systems, materials science and nanotechnology, and pure mathematics (algebra and functors). Because the topics and methods vary so widely and do not cluster around a single consistent research program, prospective students should look closely at the specific papers most relevant to their interests rather than assume a unified lab focus. The listed OpenAlex topic relevance scores are all zero, suggesting the automated topic classification did not strongly match this record to standard combustion/engineering categories despite several publications in that area.

Internal combustion engines and pre-chamber ignitionRocket propulsion and flow simulationGeothermal and thermal energy systemsNanomaterials and materials chemistryMathematical algebra (unrelated theoretical work)

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, dropping to very low levels in 2022 and 2024 but rebounding with bursts of activity in 2023 and 2025, giving a mean of about 3.2 publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.2/year recently
2017: 8 publications8172018: 6 publications182019: 8 publications8192020: 4 publications202021: 5 publications212022: 1 publication222023: 8 publications823242025: 7 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SAE International Journal of Engines×5
  • Combustion and Flame×4
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×4
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer×3
  • Journal of Applied Physics×3
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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