A. R. Bestman

University of Port Harcourt

Publishing since 1978, latest 2016

Computational Mechanics
Biomedical Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

Their record on OpenAlex

Publications: 371978–2016
Citations: 650to those papers
h-index: 9i10-index 8
Field-weighted impact: 0.491.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 37 scored papers
Open access: 11%4 papers free to read

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

37 in all

Health-seeking behavior of Port Harcourt City Residents: A Univariate Comparison between the Upper and Lower Socio Economic Classes
2016Afrischolar DiscoveryJournalOpen access0 citations10.60787/tnhj.v15i3.234
EFFECT OF POLLUTANT OSCILLATIONS ON OIL SPREADING ON THE SEA
1997International Journal of Energy Research

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Computational Mechanics2978%
Biomedical Engineering1643%
Applied Mathematics1232%
Mechanical Engineering719%
Astronomy and Astrophysics38%
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes38%
Numerical Analysis38%
Nuclear and High Energy Physics25%
Physiology25%
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics25%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows16
Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer13
Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory12
Radiative Heat Transfer Studies9
Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media4
Heat Transfer Mechanisms4
Combustion and flame dynamics3
Differential Equations and Numerical Methods3
Heat Transfer and Optimization3
Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies3
Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics2
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics2

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

19% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written2233445Home

Most frequent partner countries

Italy5
Ghana2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)IT5 papers
Rivers State UniversityNG5 papers
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa UniversityNG4 papers
University of Cape CoastGH2 papers
Ahmadu Bello UniversityNG1 paper

Where they publish

International Journal of Energy Research10
Astrophysics and Space Science9
Acta physica Hungarica3
Acta Mechanica2
Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik2
Acta Physica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

7Affordable and clean energy10
6Clean water and sanitation5
13Climate action3
1No poverty1
14Life below water1

Most cited

Natural convection boundary layer with suction and mass transfer in a porous medium
International Journal of Energy Research
1990367 citationsOpen access · Green
Radiative heat transfer to flow of a combustible mixture in a vertical pipe
International Journal of Energy Research7
199161 citations
Deep heat muscle treatment a mathematical model — II
Acta physica Hungarica6

Transient slip flow

1995International Journal of Energy ResearchJournalFirst author10 citations10.1002/er.4440190311

Slip flow in a two-component plasma model with radiative heat transfer

1995International Journal of Energy ResearchJournalSenior author4 citations10.1002/er.4440190102

Blood flow in a curved pipe with radiative heat transfer

1994Acta physica HungaricaJournalSenior author9 citations10.1007/bf03156298

Deep heat muscle treatment a mathematical model — I

1993Acta physica HungaricaJournalSenior author29 citations10.1007/bf03054177

Deep heat muscle treatment a mathematical model — II

1993Acta physica HungaricaJournalSenior author34 citations10.1007/bf03054178

Transient effect on a catalytic reactor

1993International Journal of Energy ResearchJournalFirst author2 citations10.1002/er.4440170304

The flow of a combustible gas in a horizontal pipe

1992International Journal of Energy ResearchJournalFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1002/er.4440160808

A shock hodograph in collisionless plasma

1992Astrophysics and Space ScienceJournalSenior author0 citations10.1007/bf00642952

Radiative heat transfer to flow of a combustible mixture in a vertical pipe

1991International Journal of Energy ResearchJournalFirst authorCorresponding61 citations10.1002/er.4440150305

Radiative heat transfer to flow of a combustible mixture in a vertical channel

1991International Journal of Energy ResearchJournalFirst author1 citation10.1002/er.4440150303

The structure of MHD shock waves in a thermally-radiating gas at high mach numbers

1991Astrophysics and Space ScienceJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1007/bf00646938

Hydromagnetic shock structure in high temperature hypersonic flow

1991Astrophysics and Space ScienceJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1007/bf00646939

Natural convection boundary layer with suction and mass transfer in a porous medium

1990International Journal of Energy ResearchJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding367 citations10.1002/er.4440140403

Thermally developing flow of a radiating gas in a vertical channel

1990Transport Theory and Statistical PhysicsJournalFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1080/00411459008260823

The structure of strong hydromagnetic shock waves in a thermally-radiating gas

1990Astrophysics and Space ScienceJournalFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1007/bf00642562

Thermal decay of an initially hot isothermal water body with application to thermal energy storage

1989UCLA - Biblioteca de Ciencias y Tecnologia Felix Morales BuenoJournalSenior author0 citations

Radiative transfer to oscillatory hydromagnetic rotating flow of a rarefied gas past a horizontal flat plate

1989International Journal for Numerical Methods in FluidsJournalFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1002/fld.1650090402

On the integral equation method for radiative transfer past a rotating plate in unsteady flow

1989Astrophysics and Space ScienceJournalFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1007/bf00645202

Unsteady low Reynolds number flow in a heated tube of slowly varying section

1988ANZIAM JournalJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding6 citations10.1017/s0334270000006147

Transient Flow of a Radiating Gas Between Concentric Spheres

1986IMA Journal of Applied MathematicsJournalFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.1093/imamat/37.2.173

Free convection heat transfer to steady radiating non‐Newtonian MHD flow past a vertical porous plate

1985International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringJournalFirst authorCorresponding20 citations10.1002/nme.1620210509

Compressibility effect on laminar convection to a radiating gas past a vertical plate

1985Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und PhysikJournalFirst authorCorresponding9 citations10.1007/bf00960388

Low Reynolds number oscillatory flow past a slowly rotating sphere

1983Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und PhysikJournalFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.1007/bf00949061

Pulsatile flow in heated porous channel

1982International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferJournalFirst authorCorresponding32 citations10.1016/0017-9310(82)90172-7

Oscillatory non-Newtonian flow in tubes of slowly varying radius

1982Acta MechanicaJournalFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1007/bf01295568

Free convection effects on the flow past a vertical porous plate set impulsively into motion with negligible dissipation

1979Acta Physica Academiae Scientiarum HungaricaeJournalFirst authorCorresponding5 citations10.1007/bf03159424

Heat Transfer in the Biconical and Concentric Spherical Viscometers

1978ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferJournalFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1115/1.3450897

Afrischolar Discovery

How it can be read

11% free to read

Bronze 2 · 5%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 33 · 89%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

8 of 37 papers name a funder

International Atomic Energy Agency4
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics2
American Mathematical Society1
Army Research Office1
Japan International Cooperation Agency1
Papua New Guinea University of Technology1
Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete1

Pulsatile flow in heated porous channel

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

198232 citations

Deep heat muscle treatment a mathematical model — I

Acta physica Hungarica6

199329 citations