Umit Gunes

@yildiz.edu.tr

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Yildiz Technical University

Umit Gunes


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
34

Scopus Publications

548

Scholar Citations

13

Scholar h-index

18

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • Constructal thinking: Geospatial and temporal focal points of activity
    Dan C. Baciu, Lily Wolf, Marcelo R. Errera, Vinicius Braz de Oliveira, Umit Gunes
    Biosystems, 2026
  • Professor Ricardo Martinez-Botas on his 60th birthday
    Matei Ignuta-Ciuncanu, Maria Barrera-Medrano, Adrian Bejan, Teng Cao, Colin Copeland, Aaron Costall, Umit Gunes, Karl Hohenberg, Monica Marinescu, Peter Newton, Gregory Offer, Srithar Rajoo, Guillermo Rein, Miles Robertson, Alessandro Romagnoli, Mary Ryan, Nilay Shah, Philip Tabor, Billy Wu, William Worek, Bijie Yang
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2026
  • Review: recent developments in 2D MXene-filled bioinspired composites for biomedical applications
    Yuksel Akinay, Mehmet Topuz, Umit Gunes, Muhammet Enver Gokdemir, Tayfun Cetin
    Journal of Materials Science, 2025
    Two-dimensional carbide- and nitride-based MXene materials have become some of the most studied materials in interdisciplinary fields due to their superior properties. This review comprehensively discusses recent advances in MXene materials such as bioinspired coating films, scaffolds, and electrochemical activities for use in biomedical fields. MXene consists of multilayer 2D nitride, carbide, or carbonitride flakes with excellent electrical conductivity, large surface area, and good mechanical properties. Bibliometric studies have revealed a sharp increase in the number of publications and citations, having reached 15,831 records as of February 2025. Notably, the number of citations surged from under 20 in 2012 to over 222,000 in 2024. Due to being two-dimensional materials with superior physicochemical and biological properties, MXenes are also being increasingly used in biomedical and engineering applications. They have been reported to be ideal for such biomedical applications as corrosion-resistant biofilms, biocompatibility, low toxicity, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. In addition, MXene-based scaffolds have emerged as a promising material for bone tissue engineering due to their extraordinary mechanical durability, biocompatibility, and adjustable surface properties. By aiding tissue regeneration and preventing infections, MXene scaffolds have also been found to exhibit enhanced drug delivery and antibacterial properties. Recent advances in materials science have focused on creating bioinspired structures with multifunctionality. Taking into account MXenes’ multilayered structures and functional surfaces, unique physicochemical properties have been designed by learning from nature to produce bioinspired materials. This article comprehensively reviews biomedical applications of such 2D MXene materials as bioinspired coating films, scaffolds as biosensors, drug delivery, cancer treatments, and tissue regeneration. Graphical abstract
  • Marine energy conversion
    Ibrahim Ozsari, Veysi Bashan, Umit Gunes, Asim Sinan Karakurt
    Comprehensive Energy Systems, 2025
  • Evolution and irreversibility: Two distinct phenomena and their distinct laws of nature
    A. Bejan, H. Almahmoud, U. Gunes, H.E. Fakhari, P. Mardanpour
    Physics of Life Reviews, 2024
  • Constructal law in energy transport and utilization
    Umit Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024
    Economies around the world are greatly affected by global transport. The movement of freight between starting and end points can occur in numerous different ways that each have their own unique positive and negative aspects. While studies on transportation need to involve optimization, this alone is insufficient due to how any specific optimization only applies to an optimal value for a specific time period. Transportation models have dynamic structures that necessitate having decision makers also consider how time factors into their policies. Constructal law is a method that can allow models for international transportation to be simplified by applying the results of Constructal law regarding the configuration of river deltas to the question of how best to set up a few large and many small transport modes for a given route, which in air transport can be referred to as the hub and spokes model. This article investigates a transport model based on having a small number of large and many small modes of transport and uses yearly data.
  • Freedom, design and evolution
    A. Bejan, U. Gunes, G. Grisolia, U. Lucia, D.C. Baciu
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024
  • Thermal Energy Storage in Phase Change Materials—A Bibliometric Approach
    S. Senthilraja, Umit Gunes, Mohamed M. Awad
    Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Management and Storage Fundamentals and Applications, 2024
    Most nations rely on phase change materials (PCMs) to satisfy their energy needs because of their unique ability to retain and liberate energy via a change in phase. In this chapter, a bibliometric analysis is conducted to review the articles published on thermal energy storage using different PCMs. In this chapter, 8212 relevant articles published from 1975 to 2022 were collected from the Scopus database, and the bibliometric analysis was carried out using VOSviewer and Biblioshiny tools. The results of this study can reduce many issues in renewable energy systems. This chapter also suggests suitable keywords for young scholars to retrieve and continue their study in this energy storage field. This result helps the young researchers understand PCMs and their applications in energy storage.
  • Locomotion rhythm makes power and speed
    A. Bejan, U. Gunes, H. Almahmoud
    Scientific Reports, 2023
    This article addresses two questions, why certain animals (frogs, breaststroke swimmers, hovering fliers, jellyfish) push rapidly against the surrounding fluid and then reach forward slowly, and whether this rhythm of propulsion is a manifestation of the universal phenomenon of design evolution in nature. Emphasis is on the distribution of time periods of locomotion in which, during the driving phase of cyclic movement (the motive stroke, phases 1 and 2, in alternating sequence with the dissipative stroke, phase 3), the work is generated (phase 1) and dissipated (phase 2). The relative lengths of the characteristic times t1 and t2 of the phases 1 and 2, are predicted. The relative duration of the proposed three phases of a cycle is the ‘rhythm’. The analysis is based on a model of how the effective cross-sections of the stroking body parts impact the surrounding medium, water, or air, and the total power required to account for the kinetic energy losses during phases 2 and 3, which are due to drag forces posed by the surrounding medium. The body configuration (limbs' cross-sections) determines the limbs' velocities that maximize mean power, and the times t1 and t2 within the motive stroke. Emphasis is placed on the freedom to change the evolving design. Freedom is represented in two ways: the number of degrees of freedom in changing the dimensions of the model and its deformation in time, and the effect that evolutionary changes have on the access that the body has to its available space. Freedom to change the locomotion design leads to greater power and speed.
  • Professor Adrian Bejan on his 75th birthday
    José L. Lage, William M. Worek, Cristina H. Amon, Mohamed M. Awad, Tanmay Basak, Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Tunde Bello-Ochende, Cesare Biserni, Jocelyn Bonjour, Romano Borchiellini, Erdal Çetkin, Jordan Charles, Yanyu Chen, W.K. Chow, Jack Chun, Vitor Costa, Weizhong Dai, İbrahim Dinçer, Marcelo Errera, Amir Faghri, Hooman Farzaneh, Louis Gosselin, Giulia Grisolia, Umit Gunes, Heinz Herwig, G.F. Jerry Jones, Shigeo Kimura, F.A. Kulacki, Calvin Li, Xianguo Li, Jong S. Lim, Noam Lior, Pedro Litsek, Sylvie Lorente, Giulio Lorenzini, Umberto Lucia, Oronzio Manca, Pezhman Mardanpour, Josua P. Meyer, Antonio Miguel, Luiz Fernando Milanez, Alexandru M. Morega, Tatiana Morosuk, Yuri S. Muzychka, Arunn Narasimhan, Greg F. Naterer, Juan Ordonez, G.P. Bud Peterson, Antônio Heitor Reis, Luiz A.O. Rocha, Bahri Sahin, Dusan P. Sekulic, Wojciech Stanek, George Tsatsaronis, Peter Vadasz, José V. Vargas, C.Y. Wen, Houlei Zhang, Yuwen Zhang, Zongqin Zhang
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023
  • Evolutionary design with freedom - Fin shapes and entrance length channels for heat sinks
    A. Bejan, H. Almahmoud, U. Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023
  • Social sciences and energy research interactions
    Umit Gunes
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2023
  • Thermodynamics 2.0: Bridging the natural and social sciences
    Ram Poudel, Jon McGowan, Georgi Y. Georgiev, Emmanuel Haven, Umit Gunes, Hongkun Zhang
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2023
  • Recent progress of electromagnetic wave absorbers: A systematic review and bibliometric approach
    Yuksel Akinay, Umit Gunes, Bektaş Çolak, Tayfun Cetin
    Chemphysmater, 2023
  • Predicting tanker main engine power using regression analysis and artificial neural networks
    Umit GUNES
    Sigma Journal of Engineering and Natural Sciences, 2023
  • Estimating bulk carriers’ main engine power and emissions
    and Umit Gunes
    Brodogradnja, 2023
  • Current Challenges and Future Prospects in AOPs
    Pratibha Biswal, Umit Gunes, Mohamed M. Awad
    Advanced Oxidation Processes for Micropollutant Remediation, 2023
  • Evolution of heat transfer in phase change material
    S. Senthilraja, Umit Gunes, Mohamed M. Awad
    Phase Change Materials for Heat Transfer, 2023
  • Evolutionary design for sustainability during climate change
    A. Bejan, U. Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022
  • Ventilation through a single port
    A. Bejan, H. Almahmoud, U. Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022
  • Evolution of steam turbines: A bibliometric approach
    Asım Sinan KARAKURT, İbrahim ÖZSARI, Veysi BAŞHAN, Ümit GÜNEŞ
    Journal of Thermal Engineering, 2022
  • Virus spreading and heat spreading
    Adrian Bejan, Umit Gunes
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2022
  • Analysis of geometric and non-geometric parameters in a Coanda device for marine applications
    Youssef B. El Halal, Crístofer H. Marques, Rafael de L. Lemos, Ümit Güneş, Luiz Alberto O. Rocha, Liércio A. Isoldi, Elizaldo D. dos Santos
    Ocean Engineering, 2022
  • University Rankings: Quality, Size and Permanence
    Adrian Bejan, Umit Gunes, Bahri Sahin
    European Review, 2020
  • Energy theory of periodic economic growth
    Adrian Bejan, Marcelo R. Errera, Umit Gunes
    International Journal of Energy Research, 2020
  • The evolution of air and maritime transport
    A. Bejan, U. Gunes, B. Sahin
    Applied Physics Reviews, 2019
  • A new approach for evaluating the rankine cycle through entropy generation
    Sinan KARAKURT, Umit GUNES
    Journal of Thermal Engineering, 2019
  • The effect of size on entropy generation for waste heat recovery boiler
    ECOS 2019 Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Efficiency Cost Optimization Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, 2019
  • The fastest animals and vehicles are neither the biggest nor the fastest over lifetime
    A. Bejan, U. Gunes, J. D. Charles, B. Sahin
    Scientific Reports, 2018
  • Social organization: The thermodynamic basis
    A. Bejan, U. Gunes, M.R. Errera, B. Sahin
    International Journal of Energy Research, 2018
  • Performance analysis of a steam turbine power plant at part load conditions
    A. Sinan Karakurt
    Journal of Thermal Engineering, 2017
  • Performance analysis of Multipurpose Refrigeration System (MRS) on fishing vessel
    Y. Ust, A. Sinan Karakurt, U. Gunes
    Polish Maritime Research, 2016
  • Performance analysis of a steam power plant with district heating
    ECOS 2016 Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Efficiency Cost Optimisation Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, 2016
  • Exergetic and economic analysis of subcooling & superheating effect on vapor compression refrigeration system
    A. Sinan Karakurt, Umit Gunes, Yasin Ust
    American Society of Mechanical Engineers Power Division Publication Power, 2016

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Professor Ricardo Martinez-Botas on his 60th birthday
    M Ignuta-Ciuncanu, M Barrera-Medrano, A Bejan, T Cao, C Copeland, ...
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 111407 , 2026
    2026
  • Constructal thinking: Geospatial and temporal focal points of activity.
    DC Baciu, L Wolf, MR Errera, VB de Oliveira, U Gunes
    BioSystems, 105784 , 2026
    2026
  • Review: recent developments in 2D MXene-filled bioinspired composites for biomedical applications
    Y Akinay, M Topuz, U Gunes, ME Gokdemir, T Cetin
    Journal of Materials Science, 1-30 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 22
  • Marine energy conversion
    I Ozsari, V Başhan, Ü GÜNEŞ, A KARAKURT
    Elsevier , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Evolution of Maritime Technology: Advancements in Ship Design
    U Gunes
    14th Constructal Law Conference | 10-11 October 2024, Bucharest, Romania … , 2024
    2024
  • 25 Years of Constructal Thinking: How Global Dissemination Has Grown from a Single Tree to a Network of Trees
    DANC BACIU, S KAJAREKAR, MR ERRERA, U GUNES
    14th Constructal Law Conference | 10-11 October 2024, Bucharest, Romania … , 2024
    2024
  • Evolution and irreversibility: Two distinct phenomena and their distinct laws of nature
    A Bejan, H Almahmoud, U Gunes, HE Fakhari, P Mardanpour
    Physics of Life Reviews 50, 103-116 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 16
  • Freedom, design and evolution
    A Bejan, U Gunes, G Grisolia, U Lucia, DC Baciu
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 156, 107667 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Constructal law in energy transport and utilization
    U Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 156, 107591 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 14
  • Thermal Energy Storage in Phase Change Materials—A Bibliometric Approach
    S Senthilraja, U Gunes, MM Awad
    Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Management and Storage … , 2024
    2024
  • Professor Adrian Bejan on his 75th birthday
    JL Lage, WM Worek, CH Amon, MM Awad, T Basak, Y Bayazitoglu, ...
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 149, 107162 , 2023
    2023
  • Proceedings 12th of the Constructal Law Conference
    U Gunes, A Bejan, U Lucia, G Grisolia, A Morega
    Yildiz Technical University , 2023
    2023
  • Locomotion rhythm makes power and speed
    A Bejan, U Gunes, H Almahmoud
    Scientific Reports , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 5
  • Evolutionary design with freedom - Fin shapes and entrance length channels for heat sinks
    A Bejan, H Almahmoud, U Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 147, 106946 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 17
  • Current challenges and future prospects in AOPs
    P Biswal, U Gunes, MM Awad
    Advanced Oxidation Processes for Micropollutant Remediation, 215-227 , 2023
    2023
  • Recent progress of electromagnetic wave absorbers: a systematic review and bibliometric approach
    A Yuksel, U Gunes, B Colak, T Cetin
    ChemPhysMater 2 (3), 197-206 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 123
  • Thermodynamics 2.0: Bridging the natural and social sciences
    R Poudel, J McGowan, GY Georgiev, E Haven, U Gunes, H Zhang
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 12
  • Social sciences and energy research interactions
    U Gunes
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • Evolution of heat transfer in phase change material
    S Senthilraja, U Gunes, MM Awad
    Phase Change Materials for Heat Transfer, 249-265 , 2023
    2023
  • Estimating bulk carriers’ main engine power and emissions
    U Gunes
    Brodogradnja 74 (1), 85-98 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 20

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Recent progress of electromagnetic wave absorbers: a systematic review and bibliometric approach
    A Yuksel, U Gunes, B Colak, T Cetin
    ChemPhysMater 2 (3), 197-206 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 123
  • Performance analysis of a steam turbine power plant at part load conditions
    AS Karakurt, U Gunes
    Journal of Thermal Engineering 3 (2), 1121-1128 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 85
  • The evolution of air and maritime transport
    A Bejan, U Gunes, B Sahin
    Applied Physics Reviews 6 (2) , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 39
  • Energy theory of periodic economic growth
    A Bejan, MR Errera, U Gunes
    International Journal of Energy Research , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 27
  • Social organization: the thermodynamic basis
    A Bejan, U Gunes, MR Errera, B Sahin
    International Journal of Energy Research 42 (12), 3770-3779 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 26
  • Review: recent developments in 2D MXene-filled bioinspired composites for biomedical applications
    Y Akinay, M Topuz, U Gunes, ME Gokdemir, T Cetin
    Journal of Materials Science, 1-30 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 22
  • Estimating bulk carriers’ main engine power and emissions
    U Gunes
    Brodogradnja 74 (1), 85-98 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 20
  • Evolutionary design with freedom - Fin shapes and entrance length channels for heat sinks
    A Bejan, H Almahmoud, U Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 147, 106946 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 17
  • Evolution and irreversibility: Two distinct phenomena and their distinct laws of nature
    A Bejan, H Almahmoud, U Gunes, HE Fakhari, P Mardanpour
    Physics of Life Reviews 50, 103-116 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 16
  • Constructal law in energy transport and utilization
    U Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 156, 107591 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 14
  • Exergetic and economic analysis of subcooling and superheating effect on vapor compression refrigeration system
    AS Karakurt, U Gunes, Y Ust
    ASME Power Conference 50213, V001T06A001 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 14
  • Evolutionary design for sustainability during climate change
    A Bejan, U Gunes
    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 139, 106386 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 13
  • The fastest animals and vehicles are neither the biggest nor the fastest over lifetime
    A Bejan, U Gunes, JD Charles, B Sahin
    Scientific reports 8 (1), 12925 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 13
  • Thermodynamics 2.0: Bridging the natural and social sciences
    R Poudel, J McGowan, GY Georgiev, E Haven, U Gunes, H Zhang
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 12
  • Performance analysis of multipurpose refrigeratıon system (MRS) on fishing vessel
    Y Üst, U Karakurt, Asım, Sinan, Gunes
    Polish Maritime Research 23 (2), 48-56 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 12
  • Evolution of steam turbines: a bibliometric approach
    AS Karakurt, I Ozsari, V Bashan, U Gunes
    Journal on Thermal Engineering 8 (8) , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 11
  • University rankings: quality, size and permanence
    A Bejan, U Gunes, B Sahin
    European Review , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 11
  • Predicting tanker main engine power using regression analysis and artificial neural networks
    U Gunes, V Bashan, I Ozsari, AS Karakurt
    Sigma Journal of Engineering and Natural Sciences , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 10
  • Virus spreading and heat spreading
    A Bejan, U Gunes
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences 174 (107433) , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 8
  • Educational technology: a bibliometric approach
    U Gunes, B Tonbuloglu, I Tonbuloglu, IH Yildirim, Kevser, Karatas
    Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty Journal of Educational Sciences , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6