Alexander Oron

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Alexander Oron is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Networks and Communications and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Oron has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Computational Mechanics, 66 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 54 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alexander Oron's work include Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films (82 papers), Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (66 papers) and Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (52 papers). Alexander Oron is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films (82 papers), Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (66 papers) and Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (52 papers). Alexander Oron collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Alexander Oron's co-authors include S. G. Bankoff, Stephen H. Davis, Philip Rosenau, Alexander Nepomnyashchy, O. Gottlieb, Yael Lubin, Burt P. Kotler, Tal Polak, Oded Berger‐Tal and David Saltz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Oron

107 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films
    1997 2.2k citations Alexander Oron et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Oron Israel 27 3.7k 1.6k 976 702 600 112 4.5k
Uwe Thiele Germany 42 3.5k 0.9× 1.8k 1.2× 617 0.6× 1.2k 1.7× 1.8k 3.0× 145 5.7k
Michael Bestehorn Germany 32 1.9k 0.5× 758 0.5× 887 0.9× 464 0.7× 348 0.6× 135 2.8k
Lou Kondic United States 35 2.6k 0.7× 952 0.6× 119 0.1× 653 0.9× 634 1.1× 154 3.6k
Laurent Limat France 29 1.7k 0.4× 425 0.3× 181 0.2× 472 0.7× 1.1k 1.9× 87 2.7k
D. Schwabe Germany 28 2.1k 0.6× 2.0k 1.3× 570 0.6× 487 0.7× 48 0.1× 94 2.9k
Thomas P. Witelski United States 25 1.1k 0.3× 489 0.3× 224 0.2× 238 0.3× 208 0.3× 96 2.0k
Andrew Belmonte United States 27 1.1k 0.3× 344 0.2× 223 0.2× 514 0.7× 133 0.2× 66 2.3k
A. A. Golovin United States 26 861 0.2× 931 0.6× 436 0.4× 265 0.4× 136 0.2× 98 1.9k
Hendrik C. Kuhlmann Austria 29 2.5k 0.7× 1.0k 0.7× 395 0.4× 530 0.8× 29 0.0× 135 2.9k
Denis Bartolo France 35 1.9k 0.5× 979 0.6× 284 0.3× 1.6k 2.2× 1.6k 2.7× 74 5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Oron

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nepomnyashchy, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Thermosolutal instabilities in a moderately dense nanoparticle suspension. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1011.
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Rosenau, Philip & Alexander Oron. (2024). Compactons in a class of doubly sublinear Gardner equations. Wave Motion. 132. 103427–103427. 1 indexed citations
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Bestehorn, Michael & Alexander Oron. (2023). Hopf instability of a Rayleigh–Taylor unstable thin film heated from the gas side. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 232(4). 367–374. 1 indexed citations
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Oron, Alexander, et al.. (2023). The polar-Cartesian mild-slope equation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 970.
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Rosenau, Philip & Alexander Oron. (2022). Compact patterns in a class of sublinear Gardner equations. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 110. 106384–106384. 6 indexed citations
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Ramon, Guy Z., et al.. (2022). Dynamics of a two-layer flow with an interfacial heat source/sink: viscosity stratification. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 934. 4 indexed citations
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Pototsky, Andrey, Alexander Oron, & Michael Bestehorn. (2021). Equilibrium shapes and floatability of static and vertically vibrated heavy liquid drops on the surface of a lighter fluid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 922. 3 indexed citations
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Agnon, Yehuda, et al.. (2021). Thermocapillary instability in a viscoelastic liquid layer under an imposed oblique temperature gradient. Physics of Fluids. 33(1). 9 indexed citations
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Rosenau, Philip & Alexander Oron. (2020). Flatons: Flat-top solitons in extended Gardner-like equations. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 91. 105442–105442. 12 indexed citations
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Agnon, Yehuda, et al.. (2020). Thermocapillary instabilities in a liquid layer subjected to an oblique temperature gradient. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 906. 23 indexed citations
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Bestehorn, Michael, et al.. (2019). Driving mechanisms of ratchet flow in thin liquid films under tangential two-frequency forcing. Physics of Fluids. 31(7). 1 indexed citations
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Pototsky, Andrey, Alexander Oron, & Michael Bestehorn. (2019). Vibration-induced floatation of a heavy liquid drop on a lighter liquid film. Physics of Fluids. 31(8). 15 indexed citations
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Bestehorn, Michael, et al.. (2018). Ratchet flow of thin liquid films induced by a two-frequency tangential forcing. Physics of Fluids. 30(2). 3 indexed citations
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Oron, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Parametric excitation of an axisymmetric flow of a thin liquid film down a vertical fiber. Acta Mechanica. 229(2). 549–569. 2 indexed citations
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Oron, Alexander, et al.. (2016). Liquid film flow along a substrate with an asymmetric topography sustained by the thermocapillary effect. Physics of Fluids. 28(8). 14 indexed citations
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Oron, Alexander, et al.. (2015). Long-wave Marangoni convection in a layer of surfactant solution: Bifurcation analysis. Physics of Fluids. 27(8). 5 indexed citations
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Deissler, Robert J., et al.. (1993). Marangoni instability in a liquid layer with two free surfaces. STIN. 94. 11376. 4 indexed citations

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