Guenter Ahlers

20.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
277 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Guenter Ahlers is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Guenter Ahlers has authored 277 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Computational Mechanics, 106 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 91 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Guenter Ahlers's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (108 papers), Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (90 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (84 papers). Guenter Ahlers is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (108 papers), Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (90 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (84 papers). Guenter Ahlers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Guenter Ahlers's co-authors include H. Eugene Stanley, David S. Cannell, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Detlef Lohse, Siegfried Großmann, Eric Brown, Denis Fünfschilling, W. Pesch, Avinoam Kornblit and Robert Behringer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Guenter Ahlers

276 papers receiving 15.1k 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.

Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

1973 2.8k citations Guenter Ahlers et al. profile →
Heat transfer and large scale dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

2009 1.1k citations Guenter Ahlers, Siegfried Großmann et al. profile →
Recent Developments in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

2000 711 citations Eberhard Bodenschatz, Guenter Ahlers et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Aspect Ratio Dependence of Heat Transfer in a Cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard Cell 2022 ·Physical Review Letters ·Guenter Ahlers, Eberhard Bodenschatz, R.A. Hartmann, Xiaozhou He, Detlef Lohse, (unknown), Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Roberto Verzicco, (unknown), Stephan Weiss, Xuan Zhang, (unknown), Olga Shishkina	48
2	Universal scaling of temperature variance in Rayleigh–Bénard convection near the transition to the ultimate state 2021 ·Journal of Fluid Mechanics ·Xiaozhou He, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Guenter Ahlers	12
3	Vapour-bubble nucleation and dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection 2016 ·Journal of Fluid Mechanics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Chao Sun, Detlef Lohse, Guenter Ahlers	6
4	Logarithmic Spatial Variations and Universalf−1Power Spectra of Temperature Fluctuations in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection 2014 ·Physical Review Letters ·Xiaozhou He, Dennis P. M. van Gils, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Guenter Ahlers	23
5	Logarithmic Temperature Profiles in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·Guenter Ahlers, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Denis Fünfschilling, Siegfried Großmann, Xiaozhou He, Detlef Lohse, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Roberto Verzicco	74
6	Transition to the Ultimate State of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·Xiaozhou He, Denis Fünfschilling, Holger Nobach, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Guenter Ahlers	167
7	Heat transport near the transition to the ultimate state of turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection 2011 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Guenter Ahlers, Xiaozhou He, Denis Fünfschilling, Holger Nobach, Eberhard Bodenschatz	3
8	Effect of a Polymer Additive on Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection 2010 ·Physical Review Letters ·Guenter Ahlers, Alexei Nikolaenko	49
9	Search for the ``ultimate state" in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection 2009 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Guenter Ahlers, Denis Fünfschilling, Eberhard Bodenschatz	1
10	Effect of the centrifugal force on domain chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard convection 2006 ·Physical Review E ·Nathan Becker, Janet D. Scheel, M. C. Cross, Guenter Ahlers	16
11	Domain chaos puzzle and the calculation of the structure factor and its half-width 2006 ·Physical Review E ·Nathan Becker, Guenter Ahlers	5
12	Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in strongly turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection 2005 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Guenter Ahlers, Eric Brown, Denis Fünfschilling, S. Großmann, Detlef Lohse	1
13	Reorientation of the Large-Scale Circulation in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection 2005 ·Physical Review Letters ·Eric Brown, Alexei Nikolaenko, Guenter Ahlers	148
14	Finite-Size Scaling and Universality of the Thermal Resistivity of LiquidHe4nearTλ 2003 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Guenter Ahlers, Fengchuan Liu, Yuanming Liu	11
15	Traveling concentric-roll patterns in Rayleigh-Bénard convection with modulated rotation 2002 ·Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics ·(unknown), Kapil M. S. Bajaj, Guenter Ahlers	21
16	Rayleigh-Bénard convection in elliptic and stadium-shaped containers 2002 ·Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics ·(unknown), Guenter Ahlers	4
17	Singularity in the Thermal Boundary Resistance between SuperfluidH4eand a Solid Surface 2002 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Haiying Fu, (unknown), (unknown), Fengchuan Liu, Yuanming Liu, Guenter Ahlers	10
18	Effect of sidewall conductance on heat-transport measurements for turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection 2000 ·Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics ·Guenter Ahlers	68
19	Stochastic Landau equation with time-dependent drift 1991 ·Physical Review A ·J. B. Swift, P. C. Hohenberg, Guenter Ahlers	24
20	THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY OF HE-4-I FROM NEAR T-LAMBDAL TO 3.6-K AND VAPOR-PRESSURE TO 30 BARS 1985 ·Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) ·(unknown), Guenter Ahlers	4

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