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Tom I-P. Shih

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1983Rising activity
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent FlowsHeat Transfer MechanismsComputational Fluid Dynamics and AerodynamicsTurbomachinery Performance and OptimizationAdvanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics

Publications

117

Citations

1,485

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

43

Publishing since 1983

Research summary
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Tom I-P. Shih's research focuses on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and heat transfer, particularly as applied to gas turbine engines and propulsion systems. His work includes studying film cooling (a technique to protect turbine parts from hot gases), flow and heat transfer in rotating machinery, and multiphase (gas-liquid) flows in pumps and seals. Much of this research uses simulation methods like Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) and Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) to model complex, unsteady fluid behavior in engineering systems.

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)Turbomachinery and turbine coolingHeat transfer in rotating systemsMultiphase flow modelingAerospace propulsion systems

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a peak in 2018 and a decline through 2020-2021, followed by a partial resurgence in 2023, averaging about 3-4 papers 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 3.4/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 9 publications9182019: 7 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 3 publications222023: 8 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Turbomachinery×5
  • Journal of Fluids Engineering×4
  • Energies×3
  • AIAA Journal×3
  • 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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