Eric Brown

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
46 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Eric Brown is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Brown has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Computational Mechanics, 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Eric Brown's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (18 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers) and Granular flow and fluidized beds (10 papers). Eric Brown is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (18 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers) and Granular flow and fluidized beds (10 papers). Eric Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Eric Brown's co-authors include Heinrich M. Jaeger, Guenter Ahlers, Hod Lipson, John R. Amend, Annan Mozeika, E. Steltz, M. R. Zakin, Alexei Nikolaenko, Denis Fünfschilling and Zhenzhi Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Eric Brown

45 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material

2010 1.2k citations Eric Brown, Heinrich M. Jaeger et al. profile →
A Positive Pressure Universal Gripper Based on the Jamming of Granular Material

2012 562 citations Eric Brown, Heinrich M. Jaeger et al. profile →
Shear thickening in concentrated suspensions: phenomenology, mechanisms and relations to jamming

2014 456 citations Eric Brown, Heinrich M. Jaeger profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Brown United States	26	2.5k	1.7k	1.2k	931	905	46	4.7k
K. Nandakumar Canada	42	2.1k 0.9×	2.6k 1.6×	1.3k 1.1×	640 0.7×	433 0.5×	240	5.5k
Sangtae Kim South Korea	39	1.6k 0.7×	993 0.6×	950 0.8×	1.6k 1.7×	204 0.2×	137	6.2k
François Gallaire Switzerland	31	1.5k 0.6×	2.4k 1.4×	376 0.3×	305 0.3×	64 0.1×	148	4.0k
M. M. Yovanovich Canada	47	1.9k 0.8×	2.6k 1.5×	5.0k 4.3×	1.3k 1.4×	307 0.3×	296	9.0k
Satish Kumar United States	42	1.3k 0.5×	2.6k 1.6×	329 0.3×	659 0.7×	76 0.1×	208	4.8k
Kyung Chun Kim South Korea	40	1.3k 0.5×	2.2k 1.3×	2.8k 2.3×	407 0.4×	142 0.2×	371	6.0k
Yuji Suzuki Japan	41	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	2.3k 1.9×	566 0.6×	42 0.0×	364	5.8k
Hyun Sik Yoon South Korea	36	1.7k 0.7×	2.9k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	413 0.4×	152 0.2×	195	4.2k
Kenji Yamamoto Japan	46	1.4k 0.6×	616 0.4×	1.5k 1.3×	4.3k 4.6×	59 0.1×	268	9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Brown

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Brown

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Brown, Eric, et al.. (2025). Strain stiffening due to stretching of entangled particles in random packings of granular materials. Physical review. E. 111(2). 25408–25408. 1 indexed citations

Berry, Katherine, Eric Brown, Alkim Akyurtlu, et al.. (2022). Overcoming Variability in Printed RF: A Statistical Method to Designing for Unpredictable Dimensionality. Designs. 6(1). 13–13.

Kallmann, Marcelo, et al.. (2019). An SPH model to simulate the dynamic behavior of shear thickening fluids. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 30(5). 9 indexed citations

Mukhopadhyay, Shomeek, et al.. (2018). Constitutive relation for the system-spanning dynamically jammed region in response to impact of cornstarch and water suspensions. Physical review. E. 97(5). 52602–52602. 20 indexed citations

Allen, Benjamin, et al.. (2018). System-spanning dynamically jammed region in response to impact of cornstarch and water suspensions. Physical review. E. 97(5). 52603–52603. 22 indexed citations

Mukhopadhyay, Shomeek, Benjamin Allen, & Eric Brown. (2018). Testing constitutive relations by running and walking on cornstarch and water suspensions. Physical review. E. 97(5). 52604–52604. 14 indexed citations

Brown, Eric, et al.. (2016). Ability of a low-dimensional model to predict geometry-dependent dynamics of large-scale coherent structures in turbulence. Physical review. E. 93(2). 23117–23117. 33 indexed citations

Shi, Zhenzhi, et al.. (2015). Layered bismuth oxyhalide nanomaterials for highly efficient tumor photodynamic therapy. Nanoscale. 8(25). 12715–12722. 69 indexed citations

Song, Hao, Eric Brown, Russell Hawkins, & Penger Tong. (2014). Dynamics of large-scale circulation of turbulent thermal convection in a horizontal cylinder. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 740. 136–167. 14 indexed citations

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Xu, Qin, et al.. (2014). Fast Imaging Technique to Study Drop Impact Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Fluids. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, Eric. (2013). Friction’s Role in Shear Thickening. Physics. 6. 6 indexed citations

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Brown, Eric, et al.. (2012). Strain Stiffening in Random Packings of Entangled Granular Chains. Physical Review Letters. 108(10). 108302–108302. 53 indexed citations

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Brown, Eric, Hanjun Zhang, Benjamin W. Maynor, et al.. (2011). Shear thickening and jamming in densely packed suspensions of different particle shapes. Physical Review E. 84(3). 31408–31408. 96 indexed citations

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Brown, Eric & Guenter Ahlers. (2009). The origin of oscillations of the large-scale circulation of turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 638. 383–400. 71 indexed citations

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Brown, Eric & Heinrich M. Jaeger. (2009). Dynamic Jamming Point for Shear Thickening Suspensions. Physical Review Letters. 103(8). 86001–86001. 174 indexed citations

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Fünfschilling, Denis, Eric Brown, & Guenter Ahlers. (2008). Torsional oscillations of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 607. 119–139. 69 indexed citations

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Brown, Eric & Guenter Ahlers. (2007). Temperature gradients, and search for non-Boussinesq effects, in the interior of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 80(1). 14001–14001. 43 indexed citations

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Ahlers, Guenter, Eric Brown, Denis Fünfschilling, S. Großmann, & Detlef Lohse. (2005). Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in strongly turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 58. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, Eric, Alexei Nikolaenko, & Guenter Ahlers. (2005). Reorientation of the Large-Scale Circulation in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection. Physical Review Letters. 95(8). 84503–84503. 148 indexed citations

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Pearce, Simon H. S. & Eric Brown. (1996). Calcium-sensing receptor mutations: insights into a structurally and functionally novel receptor.. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 81(4). 1309–1311. 8 indexed citations

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