Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for The Ohio State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is a 105-PI network with 119 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (50% of slots across 87 PIs; 87 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (10% of slots across 24 PIs; 24 labels), and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows as the leading topic (3% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The top weighted PIs are Ryan L. Harne (25.1 weighted works; Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids, Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research); Jinsuo Zhang (22.7 weighted works; Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes, Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of Metals and Alloys). The strongest pairings are Jeffrey P. Bons and Robin Prenter (17 shared works, weight 11.6). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 27.2, around Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, led by Jinsuo Zhang, Adib J. Samin, Lei R. Cao; group 2 with 8 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 21.3, around Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, led by Datta V. Gaitonde, Rohit Deshmukh, Jack J. McNamara.