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Researcher · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · United States

Grétar Tryggvason

Grétar Tryggvason publishes mostly in Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering and Ocean Engineering, on topics such as Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics and Mixing and Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-9884-8901 OpenAlex
World rank
#162,265
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#60,952
of 1,627,098
Works
452
Citations
18k
Citations per work
39.4
h-index
65
i10-index 173Top 0.3% in Computational Mechanics
Grétar Tryggvason

What does Grétar Tryggvason research?

Grétar Tryggvason's work is mostly in Engineering (75%).

Physical Sciences: 341 works · 75.4% of their workEngineering: 341 works · 75.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 173 works · 38.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 58 works · 12.9% of their workOcean Engineering: 40 works · 8.9% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 28 works · 6.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 25 works · 5.5% of their workMechanical Engineering: 17 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 111 works · 24.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGrétar Tryggvason452works
Physical Sciences75%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering34175.4%
  2. Everything else11124.6%
  1. 1Computational Mechanics38% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering13% of their works
  3. 3Ocean Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Grétar Tryggvason's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Multiphase Flow, Drop Impact, Surface Tension, Turbulent Flows, Bioreactor, Scale-up, Fluid-Structure Interaction and Two-Phase Flow.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Multiphase Flow3543 topics
  2. Drop Impact1891 topic
  3. Surface Tension1891 topic
  4. Turbulent Flows1672 topics
  5. Bioreactor1261 topic
  6. Scale-up1261 topic
  7. Fluid-Structure Interaction1232 topics
  8. Two-Phase Flow982 topics
  9. Immersed Boundary Method921 topic
  10. Lattice Boltzmann Method921 topic
  11. Particles731 topic
  12. Turbulence731 topic
  13. Heat Transfer662 topics
  14. Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing531 topic
  15. Nanoparticle Encapsulation531 topic
  16. Large-Eddy Simulation411 topic
  17. Vortex Dynamics411 topic
  18. SPH Method311 topic
  19. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics311 topic
  20. Boiling Heat Transfer251 topic
  21. Microchannels251 topic

Where does Grétar Tryggvason work?

Grétar Tryggvason's main affiliation in the publication record is Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Grétar Tryggvason have?

OpenAlex counts 452 works and 17,787 citations for Grétar Tryggvason, an h-index of 65, ranking #162,265 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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