N. Govender

50.8k total citations
48 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

N. Govender is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, N. Govender has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Computational Mechanics, 26 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 13 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in N. Govender's work include Granular flow and fluidized beds (34 papers), Mineral Processing and Grinding (24 papers) and Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (11 papers). N. Govender is often cited by papers focused on Granular flow and fluidized beds (34 papers), Mineral Processing and Grinding (24 papers) and Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (11 papers). N. Govender collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Austria and United Kingdom. N. Govender's co-authors include Daniël N. Wilke, Schalk Kok, Chuan‐Yu Wu, Patrick Pizette, Johannes Khinast, Wen-Jie Xu, Raj K. Rajamani, N.-E. Abriak, Benjamin J. Glasser and Chao Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, International Journal of Pharmaceutics and Chemical Engineering Science.

In The Last Decade

N. Govender

45 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
N. Govender South Africa 19 866 417 349 239 169 48 1.1k
Darius Markauskas Lithuania 14 590 0.7× 249 0.6× 347 1.0× 100 0.4× 103 0.6× 37 808
Maciej Niedostatkiewicz Poland 17 192 0.2× 178 0.4× 375 1.1× 112 0.5× 147 0.9× 62 806
Changlong Du China 19 329 0.4× 490 1.2× 383 1.1× 33 0.1× 272 1.6× 75 1.1k
Erfan G. Nezami United States 7 377 0.4× 158 0.4× 363 1.0× 167 0.7× 167 1.0× 10 661
Thomas Roessler Germany 11 332 0.4× 243 0.6× 251 0.7× 55 0.2× 68 0.4× 17 635
Pedro José Aguado Rodríguez Spain 19 295 0.3× 194 0.5× 319 0.9× 49 0.2× 125 0.7× 39 776
J. Górski Poland 15 285 0.3× 88 0.2× 383 1.1× 53 0.2× 159 0.9× 69 793
Jan Eliáš Czechia 16 145 0.2× 94 0.2× 414 1.2× 67 0.3× 419 2.5× 44 765
V. Natarajan United States 13 653 0.8× 620 1.5× 65 0.2× 70 0.3× 18 0.1× 34 981

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Fields of papers citing papers by N. Govender

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of N. Govender

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of N. Govender. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of N. Govender 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 N. Govender. N. Govender is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hu, Jiawei, et al.. (2025). DEM analysis of the impact of blade configuration on powder flow characteristics in a continuous blender. Chemical Engineering Science. 317. 122055–122055.
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Zou, Li, et al.. (2024). Coupling SPH-DEM method for simulating the dynamic response of breakwater structures under severe free surface flow. Powder Technology. 441. 119805–119805. 5 indexed citations
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Zou, Li, N. Govender, Iván Martínez-Estévez, et al.. (2023). A resolved SPH-DEM coupling method for analysing the interaction of polyhedral granular materials with fluid. Ocean Engineering. 287. 115938–115938. 13 indexed citations
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Kobyłka, R., Joanna Wiącek, M. Molenda, et al.. (2023). Precise control of discharge of spherical particles by cone valve configuration: Insert – Converging orifice. Powder Technology. 433. 119225–119225. 2 indexed citations
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Zheng, Chao, et al.. (2023). DEM analysis of the influence of stirrer design on die filling with forced powder feeding. Particuology. 88. 107–115. 4 indexed citations
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Zheng, Chao, et al.. (2022). Numerical analysis of die filling with a forced feeder using GPU-enhanced discrete element methods. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 622. 121861–121861. 6 indexed citations
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Wilke, Daniël N., et al.. (2021). From discrete element simulation data to process insights. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 249. 15001–15001.
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Zheng, Chao, N. Govender, Ling Zhang, & Chuan‐Yu Wu. (2021). GPU-enhanced DEM analysis of flow behaviour of irregularly shaped particles in a full-scale twin screw granulator. Particuology. 61. 30–40. 22 indexed citations
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Govender, N., et al.. (2020). The effect of particle shape on the packed bed effective thermal conductivity based on DEM with polyhedral particles on the GPU. Chemical Engineering Science. 219. 115584–115584. 40 indexed citations
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Wilke, Daniël N., et al.. (2019). 3D gradient corrected SPH for fully resolved particle–fluid interactions. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 78. 816–840. 19 indexed citations
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Liu, Guangyu, Wen-Jie Xu, N. Govender, & Daniël N. Wilke. (2019). A cohesive fracture model for discrete element method based on polyhedral blocks. Powder Technology. 359. 190–204. 31 indexed citations
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Liu, Guangyu, Wen-Jie Xu, Qicheng Sun, & N. Govender. (2019). Study on the particle breakage of ballast based on a GPU accelerated discrete element method. Geoscience Frontiers. 11(2). 461–471. 45 indexed citations
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Wilke, Daniël N., et al.. (2019). Benefits of virtual calibration for discrete element parameter estimation from bulk experiments. Granular Matter. 21(4). 16 indexed citations
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Govender, N., Raj K. Rajamani, Daniël N. Wilke, et al.. (2018). Effect of particle shape in grinding mills using a GPU based DEM code. Minerals Engineering. 129. 71–84. 43 indexed citations
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Govender, N., Daniël N. Wilke, Patrick Pizette, & N.-E. Abriak. (2017). A study of shape non-uniformity and poly-dispersity in hopper discharge of spherical and polyhedral particle systems using the Blaze-DEM GPU code. Applied Mathematics and Computation. 319. 318–336. 89 indexed citations
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Govender, N., et al.. (2013). Development of a convex polyhedral discrete element simulation framework for NVIDIA Kepler based GPUs. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 270. 386–400. 98 indexed citations

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