Most cited papers in Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
What are the most cited papers in Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions?
The most cited paper in Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions is "Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces" (Rainer Storn, Kenneth V. Price, 1997), with 29,587 citations. Next come "Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries" (16,098) and "A continuum method for modeling surface tension" (10,368).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 746 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces Rainer Storn, Kenneth V. Price · Journal of Global Optimization | Dec 1997 | 29,587 |
| 2 | Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries C.W. Hirt, B.D. Nichols · Journal of Computational Physics | 1981 | 16,098 |
| 3 | A continuum method for modeling surface tension Jeremiah U. Brackbill, D.B. Kothe, Ch. Zemach · Journal of Computational Physics | Jun 1992 | 10,368 |
| 4 | Linear and Nonlinear Waves Gerald Beresford Whitham, Richard Fowler · Physics Today | Jun 1975 | 8,303 |
| 5 | Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: theory and application to non-spherical stars R. A. Gingold, Joseph J. Monaghan · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Dec 1977 | 7,263 |
| 6 | The cosmological simulation code gadget-2 Volker Springel · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 14 Nov 2005 | 6,434 |
| 7 | Numerical Calculation of Time-Dependent Viscous Incompressible Flow of Fluid with Free Surface Francis H. Harlow, J. Eddie Welch · The Physics of Fluids | Dec 1965 | 5,982 |
| 8 | The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2 Margarita Petkova, Volker Springel | 2005 | 3,961 |
| 9 | Simulating Free Surface Flows with SPH Joseph J. Monaghan · Journal of Computational Physics | Feb 1994 | 3,388 |
| 10 | Reproducing kernel particle methods Wing Kam Liu, Sukky Jun, Yi Fei Zhang · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids | 30 Apr 1995 | 2,856 |
| 11 | Smoothed particle hydrodynamics Joseph J. Monaghan · Reports on Progress in Physics | 5 Jul 2005 | 2,753 |
| 12 | The Force Exerted by Surface Waves on Piles J. R. Morison, Joe W. Johnson, S. A. Schaaf · Journal of Petroleum Technology | May 1950 | 2,736 |
| 13 | E pur si muove: Galilean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh Volker Springel · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 17 Nov 2009 | 2,457 |
| 14 | Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: a hybrid multiphase model for star formation Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 21 Feb 2003 | 2,281 |
| 15 | Hydrodynamic Stability P. Drazin, W. Reid, F. H. Busse · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Jun 1982 | 2,267 |
| 16 | A Front-Tracking Method for the Computations of Multiphase Flow Grétar Tryggvason, Bernard Bunner, Asghar Esmaeeli et al. · Journal of Computational Physics | May 2001 | 2,187 |
| 17 | DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FREE-SURFACE AND INTERFACIAL FLOW Ruben Scardovelli, Stéphane Zaleski · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | 1999 | 2,062 |
| 18 | Moving-Particle Semi-Implicit Method for Fragmentation of Incompressible Fluid Seiichi Koshizuka, Y. Oka · Nuclear Science and Engineering | Jul 1996 | 2,023 |
| 19 | Modeling Low Reynolds Number Incompressible Flows Using SPH Joseph P. Morris, Patrick J. Fox, Yi Zhu · Journal of Computational Physics | Sep 1997 | 1,977 |
| 20 | Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH): an Overview and Recent Developments Moubin Liu, G. R. Liu · Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering | 12 Feb 2010 | 1,856 |
| 21 | Models, algorithms and validation for opensource DEM and CFD-DEM Christoph Kloss, Christoph Goniva, Alice Hager et al. · Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics An International Journal | 2012 | 1,831 |
| 22 | The motion of a finite mass of granular material down a rough incline Stuart B. Savage, Kolumban Hutter · Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Feb 1989 | 1,795 |
| 23 | The Use of Tensors to Describe and Predict Fiber Orientation in Short Fiber Composites Suresh G. Advani, Charles L. Tucker · Journal of Rheology | Nov 1987 | 1,789 |
| 24 | A Coupled Level Set and Volume-of-Fluid Method for Computing 3D and Axisymmetric Incompressible Two-Phase Flows Mark Sussman, Elbridge Gerry Puckett · Journal of Computational Physics | Aug 2000 | 1,775 |
| 25 | Cracking particles: a simplified meshfree method for arbitrary evolving cracks Timon Rabczuk, Ted Belytschko · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | 18 Oct 2004 | 1,718 |
| 26 | Drop Impact on a Solid Surface Christophe Josserand, Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | 22 Sep 2015 | 1,593 |
| 27 | A particle method for history-dependent materials Deborah L. Sulsky, Zhen Chen, H. L. Schreyer · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Sep 1994 | 1,583 |
| 28 | An accurate adaptive solver for surface-tension-driven interfacial flows Stéphane Popinet · Journal of Computational Physics | 11 May 2009 | 1,536 |
| 29 | Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element formulation for incompressible viscous flows Thomas J.R. Hughes, Wing Kam Liu, Thomas Zimmermann · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Dec 1981 | 1,526 |
| 30 | Numerical simulation of interfacial flows by smoothed particle hydrodynamics A. Colagrossi, M. Landrini · Journal of Computational Physics | 16 Oct 2003 | 1,502 |
| 31 | An arbitrary lagrangian-eulerian finite element method for transient dynamic fluid-structure interactions Jean Donea, Stefano Giuliani, J.P. Halleux · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Sep 1982 | 1,498 |
| 32 | A new finite element formulation for computational fluid dynamics: V. Circumventing the babuška-brezzi condition: a stable Petrov-Galerkin formulation of the stokes problem accommodating equal-order interpolations Thomas J.R. Hughes, Leopoldo P. Franca, Marc Balestra · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Nov 1986 | 1,453 |
| 33 | Conforming and nonconforming finite element methods for solving the stationary Stokes equations I Michel Crouzeix, Pierre-Arnaud Raviart · Revue française d automatique informatique recherche opérationnelle Mathématique | 1973 | 1,406 |
| 34 | Computational methods in Lagrangian and Eulerian hydrocodes David John Benson · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Sep 1992 | 1,371 |
| 35 | Capillary effects during droplet impact on a solid surface M. Pasandideh-Fard, Yuhui Qiao, S. Chandra et al. · Physics of Fluids | Mar 1996 | 1,367 |
| 36 | Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Some recent improvements and applications P.W. Randles, Larry D. Libersky · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Dec 1996 | 1,318 |
| 37 | Maximal deformation of an impacting drop Christophe Clanet, Cédric Béguin, Denis Richard et al. · Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 25 Sep 2004 | 1,306 |
| 38 | Shock simulation by the particle method SPH Joseph J. Monaghan, R. A. Gingold · Journal of Computational Physics | Nov 1983 | 1,292 |
| 39 | Elastic waves through a packing of spheres Fritz Gassmann · Geophysics | Oct 1951 | 1,250 |
| 40 | A three-dimensional large deformation meshfree method for arbitrary evolving cracks Timon Rabczuk, Ted Belytschko · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 5 Mar 2007 | 1,231 |
| 41 | The Propulsion of Sea-Urchin Spermatozoa James C. Gray, Gregory J. Hancock · Journal of Experimental Biology | Dec 1955 | 1,204 |
| 42 | A generalized solid-state nudged elastic band method Daniel Sheppard, Penghao Xiao, William D. Chemelewski et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 16 Feb 2012 | 1,186 |
| 43 | Phenomena of liquid drop impact on solid and liquid surfaces Martin L. Rein · Fluid Dynamics Research | Aug 1993 | 1,175 |
| 44 | Meshless methods: A review and computer implementation aspects Vinh Phu Nguyen, Timon Rabczuk, Stéphane Bordas et al. · Mathematics and Computers in Simulation | 19 Jan 2008 | 1,171 |
| 45 | On the collision of a droplet with a solid surface S. Chandra, C. Thomas Avedisian · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 8 Jan 1991 | 1,117 |
| 46 | An introduction to SPH Joseph J. Monaghan · Computer Physics Communications | 1988 | 1,099 |
| 47 | A distributed Lagrange multiplier/fictitious domain method for particulate flows Roland Glowinski, Tsorng‐Whay Pan, Todd I. Hesla et al. · International Journal of Multiphase Flow | Aug 1999 | 1,079 |
| 48 | Properties of a chiral honeycomb with a poisson's ratio of — 1 D. Prall, Roderic S. Lakes · International Journal of Mechanical Sciences | Mar 1997 | 1,048 |
| 49 | GADGET: A code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations Volker Springel, Naoki Yoshida, Simon D. M. White | 12 Mar 2000 | 1,044 |
| 50 | Application of a particle-in-cell method to solid mechanics Deborah L. Sulsky, Shijian Zhou, H. L. Schreyer · Computer Physics Communications | May 1995 | 1,038 |
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