Hywel Rhys Thomas

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
269 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Hywel Rhys Thomas is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Hywel Rhys Thomas has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 81 papers in Environmental Engineering and 63 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Hywel Rhys Thomas's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (101 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (49 papers) and Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (39 papers). Hywel Rhys Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (101 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (49 papers) and Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (39 papers). Hywel Rhys Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Poland. Hywel Rhys Thomas's co-authors include Yongjun He, Peter John Cleall, Stephen William Rees, Jingwei Wang, Bo Liang, Jinqiu Xu, R. W. Francis, Ken R. Lum, Chenfeng Li and Majid Sedighi and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Power Sources and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Hywel Rhys Thomas

257 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

A review of processes and technologies for the recycling of lithium-ion secondary batteries

2007 654 citations Hywel Rhys Thomas et al. profile →
A Review of Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation

2021 209 citations Bin Chen, Beatriz Ramos Barboza et al. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hywel Rhys Thomas United Kingdom	38	2.2k	1.8k	1.2k	1.1k	1.0k	269	5.7k
Alireza Bahadori Australia	51	1.3k 0.6×	2.6k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	248 0.2×	337	8.8k
Bo Zhang China	45	731 0.3×	2.9k 1.6×	718 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	681 0.7×	539	8.9k
Rouzbeh Abbassi Australia	53	884 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	628 0.6×	728 0.7×	211	8.7k
Valerio Cozzani Italy	60	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	846 0.7×	531 0.5×	583 0.6×	408	12.0k
Gang Liu China	43	919 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	717 0.6×	582 0.5×	141 0.1×	300	5.9k
Akbar A. Javadi United Kingdom	43	3.4k 1.6×	529 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	418 0.4×	599 0.6×	259	6.1k
Renpeng Chen China	60	7.2k 3.3×	860 0.5×	337 0.3×	812 0.7×	510 0.5×	258	11.9k
Hongyuan Fang China	42	3.1k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	799 0.6×	797 0.7×	92 0.1×	460	7.1k
Athanasios Kolios United Kingdom	41	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	827 0.7×	865 0.8×	199 0.2×	199	5.5k
Ning Li China	32	971 0.4×	933 0.5×	126 0.1×	745 0.7×	364 0.4×	311	4.7k

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Masum, Shakil, et al.. (2024). Numerical investigation of gas migration behaviour in saturated bentonite with consideration of temperature. Acta Geotechnica. 19(5). 2381–2393. 6 indexed citations

Thomas, Hywel Rhys, et al.. (2024). Investigation of strain-sensitive properties of porous media through micro-CT imaging and numerical modelling. Computers and Geotechnics. 174. 106560–106560. 2 indexed citations

Wiatowski, Marian, et al.. (2023). CO2 Injection via a Horizontal Well into the Coal Seam at the Experimental Mine Barbara in Poland. Energies. 16(20). 7217–7217. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Min, et al.. (2023). Hydromechanical Impacts of CO2 Storage in Coal Seams of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland). Energies. 16(7). 3279–3279. 11 indexed citations

Xie, Haijian, et al.. (2022). An analytical model for contaminant transport in landfill liner with fluctuating leachate head. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 47(3). 482–494. 14 indexed citations

Fu, Jinlong, Dunhui Xiao, Dongfeng Li, Hywel Rhys Thomas, & Chenfeng Li. (2022). Stochastic reconstruction of 3D microstructures from 2D cross-sectional images using machine learning-based characterization. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 390. 114532–114532. 38 indexed citations

Fu, Jinlong, et al.. (2021). The correlation between statistical descriptors of heterogeneous materials. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 384. 113948–113948. 10 indexed citations

An, Ni, Renato Zagorščak, & Hywel Rhys Thomas. (2021). Environmental assessment of underground coal gasification in deep-buried seams. Environmental Geotechnics. 11(6). 418–439. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Bin, Beatriz Ramos Barboza, Yanan Sun, et al.. (2021). A Review of Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. 29(4). 1–58. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yan, Huaxiang, et al.. (2019). An analytical model for chemical diffusion in layered contaminated sediment systems with bioreactive caps. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 43(15). 2471–2490. 23 indexed citations

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Sedighi, Majid, Hywel Rhys Thomas, & Philip J. Vardon. (2012). On the reactive transport of chemicals in unsaturated expansive soils. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Hywel Rhys & Majid Sedighi. (2012). Modelling the engineering behaviour of highly swelling clays. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 3 indexed citations

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Sedighi, Majid, Hywel Rhys Thomas, & Philip J. Vardon. (2011). Modelling thermal impacts on reactive transport processes related to multicomponent chemicals in compacted clays. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zheng, et al.. (2006). Multidimensional simulation of earth-contact heat transfer. Building Research & Information. 34(6). 565–572. 3 indexed citations

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Seetharam, Suresh, et al.. (2004). An integrated modelling framework for health impact analysis for urban pollution. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Hywel Rhys, et al.. (2003). Simulation of the tunnel sealing experiment using THM modelling. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 2 indexed citations

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Thomas, Hywel Rhys. (2000). The Finite Element Method in the Static and Dynamic Deformation and Consolidation of Porous Media. Second Edition, by R. W. Lewis and B. A. Schrefler, Wiley, New York, 1998. ISBN: 0-471-92809-7. GB�75.00. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 48(5). 787–787. 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Hywel Rhys. (1990). Education costs and performance : a cost-effectiveness analysis. Cassell eBooks. 11 indexed citations

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Thomas, Hywel Rhys, et al.. (1989). A PARALLEL SOLUTION OF SOME GROUNDWATER FLOW PROBLEMS. NUMERICAL MODELS IN GEOMECHANICS. NUMOG III. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM HELD IN NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA, 8-11 MAY 1989. 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Hywel Rhys, R. W. Lewis, & K. Morgan. (1980). An Application of the Finite Element Method to the Drying of Timber. Wood and Fiber Science. 11(4). 237–243. 39 indexed citations

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