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Researcher · FH Aachen · Germany

Volker J. Becker

Volker J. Becker publishes mostly in Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization, Heat Transfer Mechanisms and Granular flow and fluidized beds.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,583,416
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#128,014
of 364,343
Works
35
Citations
424
Citations per work
12.1
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 50% in Computational Mechanics
Volker J. Becker

What does Volker J. Becker research?

Volker J. Becker's work is mostly in Engineering (52%), Physics and Astronomy (9%), Materials Science (8%).

Physical Sciences: 24 works · 68.3% of their workEngineering: 18 works · 51.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 8 works · 22.1% of their workMechanical Engineering: 5 works · 13.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 4 works · 11.5% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 works · 4.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 8.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 works · 8.7% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 7.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 31.7% of their workTHEIR WORKVolker J. Becker35works
Physical Sciences68%

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. Engineering1851.9%
    2. Physics and Astronomy38.7%
    3. Materials Science37.7%
  2. Everything else1131.7%
  1. 1Computational Mechanics22% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering14% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics9% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry8% of their works
  6. 6Civil and Structural Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Volker J. Becker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heat Transfer, Large-Eddy Simulation, Film Cooling, Turbine, Friction Factor, Solar Air Heater, Discrete Particle Simulation and Granular Flows.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Heat Transfer304 topics
  2. Large-Eddy Simulation203 topics
  3. Film Cooling121 topic
  4. Turbine121 topic
  5. Friction Factor101 topic
  6. Solar Air Heater101 topic
  7. Discrete Particle Simulation81 topic
  8. Granular Flows81 topic
  9. Glass Transition61 topic
  10. Supercooled Liquids61 topic
  11. Combustion Instabilities41 topic
  12. Turbulent Flames41 topic
  13. Turbulent Flows41 topic
  14. Vortex Dynamics41 topic
  15. Chimera States31 topic
  16. High-Order Schemes31 topic
  17. Synchronization31 topic
  18. Turbulence Modeling31 topic

Where does Volker J. Becker work?

Volker J. Becker's main affiliation in the publication record is FH Aachen, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Volker J. Becker have?

OpenAlex counts 35 works and 424 citations for Volker J. Becker, an h-index of 10, ranking #2,583,416 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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