Germán Varas

423 total citations
22 papers, 329 citations indexed

About

Germán Varas is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Germán Varas has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 329 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Computational Mechanics, 4 papers in Ocean Engineering and 4 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Germán Varas's work include Granular flow and fluidized beds (12 papers), Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (6 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (3 papers). Germán Varas is often cited by papers focused on Granular flow and fluidized beds (12 papers), Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (6 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (3 papers). Germán Varas collaborates with scholars based in Chile, France and United States. Germán Varas's co-authors include Valérie Vidal, Jean-Christophe Géminard, Xiang Cheng, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Sidney R. Nagel, Daniel Citron, Marcel G. Clerc, Kathryn Huff, Jocelyn Dunstan and Nicolás Mujica and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Scientific Reports and Nature Physics.

In The Last Decade

Germán Varas

19 papers receiving 321 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Germán Varas Chile 10 198 92 84 50 41 22 329
Pierre Saramito France 13 166 0.8× 22 0.2× 33 0.4× 14 0.3× 20 0.5× 31 403
B. M. Marino Argentina 13 177 0.9× 27 0.3× 12 0.1× 25 0.5× 58 1.4× 27 445
Theodore A. Brzinski United States 9 240 1.2× 56 0.6× 85 1.0× 2 0.0× 20 0.5× 13 406
C. T. Nguyen United States 7 74 0.4× 35 0.4× 31 0.4× 7 0.1× 132 3.2× 8 382
P. Rama Rao India 14 20 0.1× 77 0.8× 65 0.8× 29 0.6× 282 6.9× 42 442
V. Yu. Liapidevskii Russia 10 118 0.6× 41 0.4× 8 0.1× 20 0.4× 15 0.4× 66 331
Marco De Paoli Austria 12 203 1.0× 176 1.9× 16 0.2× 60 1.2× 20 0.5× 23 439
Jinzi Mac Huang United States 10 111 0.6× 30 0.3× 59 0.7× 6 0.1× 8 0.2× 24 277
Marcel Thielmann Germany 16 51 0.3× 30 0.3× 25 0.3× 5 0.1× 528 12.9× 35 674
Carlos Torres United States 8 97 0.5× 88 1.0× 8 0.1× 8 0.2× 5 0.1× 17 281

Countries citing papers authored by Germán Varas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Germán Varas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Germán Varas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Germán Varas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Germán Varas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Germán Varas. Germán Varas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hermosilla, Gabriel, et al.. (2025). Deep Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-Real Robot Navigation with a Minimal Sensor Suite for Beach-Cleaning Applications. Applied Sciences. 15(19). 10719–10719.
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Hermosilla, Gabriel, et al.. (2024). RL-Based Sim2Real Enhancements for Autonomous Beach-Cleaning Agents. Applied Sciences. 14(11). 4602–4602. 2 indexed citations
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Spinuzzi, Clay, et al.. (2024). Visualizing the Entrepreneur’s Journey: Synchronic, Iterative, and Linear Representations. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 9–15.
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Varas, Germán, et al.. (2024). Interaction between gas channels in water-saturated sands. Physical review. E. 110(2). 24901–24901. 1 indexed citations
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Piña-Stranger, Álvaro, et al.. (2023). Managing Inter-University Digital Collaboration from a Bottom-Up Approach: Lessons from Organizational, Pedagogical, and Technological Dimensions. Sustainability. 15(18). 13470–13470. 3 indexed citations
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Piña-Stranger, Álvaro, et al.. (2023). An Introduction to the Special Issue on Digital and Collaborative Higher Education: The Case of the Erasmus+ OpenU Project. Education Sciences. 13(4). 325–325. 3 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, et al.. (2022). Geometry-controlled phase transition in vibrated granular media. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 14989–14989. 6 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, et al.. (2022). Geometrical description of impact cratering under microgravity conditions. Granular Matter. 24(2). 1 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, et al.. (2020). Stability of a Liquid Jet Impinging on Confined Saturated Sand. Physical Review Letters. 124(22). 224502–224502. 9 indexed citations
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Vidal, Valérie, et al.. (2019). Friction weakening by mechanical vibrations: A velocity-controlled process. The European Physical Journal E. 42(7). 91–91. 7 indexed citations
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Gay, Aurélien, Michel Lopez, Jean‐Luc Potdevin, et al.. (2018). 3D morphology and timing of the giant fossil pockmark of Beauvoisin, SE Basin of France. Journal of the Geological Society. 176(1). 61–77. 15 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, et al.. (2017). Stability of gas channels in a dense suspension in the presence of obstacles. Physical review. E. 95(6). 62905–62905. 2 indexed citations
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Vidal, Valérie, et al.. (2016). Bubbles trapped in a fluidized bed: Trajectories and contact area. Physical review. E. 93(3). 32904–32904. 4 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, et al.. (2015). Gas-induced fluidization of mobile liquid-saturated grains. Physical Review E. 92(6). 62210–62210. 10 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, et al.. (2015). Flow and fracture in water-saturated, unconstrained granular beds. Frontiers in Physics. 3. 21 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, Jean-Christophe Géminard, & Valérie Vidal. (2013). Air invasion in a granular layer immersed in a fluid: morphology and dynamics. Granular Matter. 15(6). 801–810. 21 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, Valérie Vidal, & Jean-Christophe Géminard. (2011). Morphology of air invasion in an immersed granular layer. Physical Review E. 83(6). 61302–61302. 17 indexed citations
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Varas, Germán, Valérie Vidal, & Jean-Christophe Géminard. (2009). Dynamics of crater formations in immersed granular materials. Physical Review E. 79(2). 21301–21301. 26 indexed citations
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Clerc, Marcel G., P. Cordero, Jocelyn Dunstan, et al.. (2008). Liquid–solid-like transition in quasi-one-dimensional driven granular media. Nature Physics. 4(3). 249–254. 83 indexed citations
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Cheng, Xiang, Germán Varas, Daniel Citron, Heinrich M. Jaeger, & Sidney R. Nagel. (2007). Collective Behavior in a Granular Jet: Emergence of a Liquid with Zero Surface Tension. Physical Review Letters. 99(18). 188001–188001. 64 indexed citations

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