Frédéric Gibou

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
104 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Gibou is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Gibou has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Computational Mechanics, 20 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 13 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Gibou's work include Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (35 papers), Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (25 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (17 papers). Frédéric Gibou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (35 papers), Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (25 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (17 papers). Frédéric Gibou collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and France. Frédéric Gibou's co-authors include Chohong Min, Ronald Fedkiw, Ron Fedkiw, Frank Losasso, Stanley Osher, Myungjoo Kang, Duc Nguyen, Li‐Tien Cheng, Mohammad Mirzadeh and Liguo Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Gibou

101 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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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.

Simulating water and smoke with an octree data structure

2004 430 citations Frédéric Gibou et al. profile →
A Second-Order-Accurate Symmetric Discretization of the Poisson Equation on Irregular Domains

2002 398 citations Frédéric Gibou, Ronald Fedkiw et al. Journal of Computational Physics profile →
A review of level-set methods and some recent applications

2017 293 citations Frédéric Gibou, Ronald Fedkiw et al. Journal of Computational Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frédéric Gibou United States	36	3.1k	777	492	474	468	104	4.5k
Ulrich Rüde Germany	33	2.2k 0.7×	224 0.3×	825 1.7×	305 0.6×	278 0.6×	179	3.4k
David Adalsteinsson United States	19	1.2k 0.4×	409 0.5×	288 0.6×	172 0.4×	203 0.4×	37	2.9k
Z.J. Wang United States	41	6.7k 2.2×	158 0.2×	380 0.8×	94 0.2×	286 0.6×	256	7.6k
Robert D. Russell Canada	33	2.3k 0.7×	202 0.3×	308 0.6×	117 0.2×	498 1.1×	68	4.6k
Martin Rumpf Germany	32	1.5k 0.5×	875 1.1×	65 0.1×	194 0.4×	198 0.4×	131	2.8k
Li‐Tien Cheng United States	20	1.0k 0.3×	271 0.3×	156 0.3×	212 0.4×	161 0.3×	42	1.9k
J.Z. Zhu China	18	4.4k 1.4×	387 0.5×	1.4k 2.8×	153 0.3×	3.1k 6.7×	40	5.6k
Garth N. Wells United Kingdom	30	2.2k 0.7×	129 0.2×	497 1.0×	744 1.6×	2.5k 5.3×	79	6.0k
Wolfgang Bangerth United States	27	1.9k 0.6×	190 0.2×	551 1.1×	238 0.5×	814 1.7×	81	4.3k
Gerhard Dziuk Germany	24	1.7k 0.5×	268 0.3×	112 0.2×	235 0.5×	400 0.9×	48	2.4k

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All Works

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Gibou, Frédéric, et al.. (2025). Drag reduction in surfactant-contaminated superhydrophobic channels at high Péclet numbers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1010.

Peaudecerf, François J., et al.. (2025). Exogenous–Endogenous Surfactant Interaction Yields Heterogeneous Spreading in Complex Branching Networks. Physical Review Letters. 134(3). 34001–34001. 1 indexed citations

Gibou, Frédéric, et al.. (2025). Optimal control for stochastic neural oscillators. Biological Cybernetics. 119(2-3). 9–9. 1 indexed citations

Gibou, Frédéric, et al.. (2024). Unsteady evolution of slip and drag in surfactant-contaminated superhydrophobic channels. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1000. 1 indexed citations

Gibou, Frédéric, et al.. (2023). Machine learning algorithms for three-dimensional mean-curvature computation in the level-set method. Journal of Computational Physics. 478. 111995–111995. 1 indexed citations

Pollock, Tresa M., et al.. (2023). A numerical method for sharp-interface simulations of multicomponent alloy solidification. Journal of Computational Physics. 494. 112494–112494. 2 indexed citations

Peaudecerf, François J., et al.. (2023). A single parameter can predict surfactant impairment of superhydrophobic drag reduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(3). e2211092120–e2211092120. 17 indexed citations

Gibou, Frédéric, et al.. (2023). Laminar drag reduction in surfactant-contaminated superhydrophobic channels. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 963. 7 indexed citations

Gibou, Frédéric, et al.. (2023). JAX-DIPS: Neural bootstrapping of finite discretization methods and application to elliptic problems with discontinuities. Journal of Computational Physics. 493. 112480–112480. 8 indexed citations

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Gibou, Frédéric, et al.. (2022). Error-Correcting Neural Networks for Two-Dimensional Curvature Computation in the Level-Set Method. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Margetis, Dionisios, et al.. (2019). An examination of scaling behavior in unstable epitaxial mound growth via kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 31(36). 365301–365301. 3 indexed citations

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Johnson, I. B., Christian Rätsch, Frédéric Gibou, & Dionisios Margetis. (2019). Slope selection in unstable multilayer growth in 1+1 dimensions: Step flow models with downward funneling. Physical review. E. 100(5). 52802–52802.

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Luzzatto‐Fegiz, Paolo, et al.. (2017). Marangoni stresses due to surfactant traces can severely limit the drag reduction of superhydrophobic surfaces. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Gibou, Frédéric, Ronald Fedkiw, & Stanley Osher. (2017). A review of level-set methods and some recent applications. Journal of Computational Physics. 353. 82–109. 293 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mirzadeh, Mohammad, Frédéric Gibou, & Todd M. Squires. (2014). Enhanced Charging Kinetics of Porous Electrodes: Surface Conduction as a Short-Circuit Mechanism. Physical Review Letters. 113(9). 97701–97701. 67 indexed citations

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Mirzadeh, Mohammad, et al.. (2012). Minimum energy desynchronizing control for coupled neurons. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 34(2). 259–271. 49 indexed citations

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Theillard, Maxime, et al.. (2012). A second-order sharp numerical method for solving the linear elasticity equations on irregular domains and adaptive grids – Application to shape optimization. Journal of Computational Physics. 233. 430–448. 28 indexed citations

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Bertelli, Luca, Prasenjit Ghosh, B.S. Manjunath, & Frédéric Gibou. (2008). Robust depth estimation for efficient 3D face reconstruction. International Conference on Image Processing. 1 indexed citations

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Bertelli, Luca, Baris Sumengen, B.S. Manjunath, & Frédéric Gibou. (2008). A Variational Framework for Multiregion Pairwise-Similarity-Based Image Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 30(8). 1400–1414. 40 indexed citations

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Gibou, Frédéric, Doron Levy, Carlos Cárdenas, Pingyu Liu, & A Boyer. (2005). Partial Differential Equations-Based Segmentation for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering. 2(2). 209–226. 17 indexed citations

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