Nele Moelans

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
137 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Nele Moelans is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nele Moelans has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Materials Chemistry, 86 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 75 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nele Moelans's work include Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (81 papers), Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (76 papers) and Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics (32 papers). Nele Moelans is often cited by papers focused on Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (81 papers), Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (76 papers) and Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics (32 papers). Nele Moelans collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, China and Germany. Nele Moelans's co-authors include Bart Blanpain, Patrick Wollants, Muxing Guo, Kim Verbeken, Inge Bellemans, Kunok Chang, A. Durga, Stefan Vandewalle, Frank Wendler and Britta Nestler and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

Nele Moelans

131 papers receiving 3.7k citations

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An introduction to phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nele Moelans	2.6k	2.1k	1.8k	757	487	137	3.8k
Mohsen Asle Zaeem	3.4k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	644 0.9×	818 1.7×	142	4.9k
Patrick Wollants	3.2k 1.2×	4.3k 2.1×	1.5k 0.8×	870 1.1×	344 0.7×	176	5.9k
K. Darling	2.7k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	580 0.3×	690 0.9×	164 0.3×	88	3.5k
William Yi Wang	2.3k 0.9×	3.4k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	624 0.8×	377 0.8×	188	4.5k
Haifeng Wang	2.2k 0.8×	4.0k 1.9×	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	265 0.5×	191	5.4k
L. Arnberg	3.7k 1.4×	4.8k 2.3×	4.3k 2.4×	816 1.1×	936 1.9×	232	6.6k
Ying Yang	2.7k 1.0×	4.3k 2.1×	2.6k 1.5×	495 0.7×	303 0.6×	187	6.1k
Ursula R. Kattner	2.1k 0.8×	4.4k 2.1×	1.6k 0.9×	414 0.5×	999 2.1×	107	5.5k
M. Legros	4.0k 1.5×	2.8k 1.3×	571 0.3×	1.6k 2.1×	822 1.7×	124	5.1k
Jingjie Guo	4.3k 1.6×	6.0k 2.9×	2.3k 1.3×	727 1.0×	251 0.5×	316	6.9k

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Bellemans, Inge, et al.. (2025). Molecular dynamics studies of the structural and transport properties of CaO-Al 2 O 3 -SiO2 melts: Comparing the accuracy of the empirical force fields. Computational Materials Science. 259. 114150–114150. 1 indexed citations

Marino, Alessandro, et al.. (2025). Kinetics of the Fe3O4-Fe2O3 reaction in liquid lead-bismuth eutectic. Chemical Engineering Science. 306. 121235–121235. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jun, Yuan Yuan, Tao Chen, et al.. (2025). Design of corrosion-resistant Mg-Zn/Gd-X alloys: Insights from theoretical calculations and experimental studies. Corrosion Science. 255. 113078–113078. 3 indexed citations

Reddy, K. Vijay, et al.. (2024). An atomic-level insight in the transition from non-reactive to reactive wetting using molecular dynamics simulation. Materialia. 38. 102291–102291.

Reddy, K. Vijay, et al.. (2024). Aluminum droplets on Ni substrates: Evaluating high-temperature oxidation at the liquid/gas interface. Surfaces and Interfaces. 54. 105287–105287.

Moelans, Nele, et al.. (2024). AlloyManufacturingNet for discovery and design of hardness-elongation synergy in multi-principal element alloys. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 132. 107902–107902. 3 indexed citations

Moelans, Nele, et al.. (2024). Scale-bridging phase-field approach for nucleation and microstructure evolution applied to the β to α phase transformation in pure titanium. Materials & Design. 239. 112768–112768. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Tao, Yuan Yuan, Jun Wang, et al.. (2024). Features and classification of solid solution behavior of ternary Mg alloys. Journal of Magnesium and Alloys. 13(6). 2522–2539. 13 indexed citations

Reddy, K. Vijay, et al.. (2024). Step flow mechanism in dissolutive wetting Cu/Ni systems. Acta Materialia. 282. 120519–120519. 4 indexed citations

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Reddy, K. Vijay, et al.. (2023). Dynamics of intermetallics formation in the Al/Ni reactive wetting system. Materialia. 27. 101686–101686. 4 indexed citations

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Moelans, Nele, et al.. (2023). Quantitative high driving force phase-field model for multi-grain structures. Acta Materialia. 256. 119087–119087. 11 indexed citations

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Lim, Jun, et al.. (2023). Identification of the Fe3O4–Fe2O3 reaction in liquid lead–bismuth eutectic. Progress in Nuclear Energy. 164. 104884–104884. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Yang, Yuan Yuan, Qin Li, et al.. (2023). Interdiffusion and atomic mobility of the Mg–Sn–Zn system. Calphad. 80. 102524–102524. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Tao, Yuan Yuan, Jiajia Wu, et al.. (2022). Interaction of elements in dilute Mg alloys: a DFT and machine learning study. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 21. 4512–4525. 17 indexed citations

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Bellemans, Inge, Nico Vervliet, Lieven De Lathauwer, Nele Moelans, & Kim Verbeken. (2022). Towards more realistic simulations of microstructural evolution in oxidic systems. Calphad. 77. 102402–102402. 2 indexed citations

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Hou, Yanhui, Shilong Zhou, Guangqiang Li, & Nele Moelans. (2022). Study on the Occurrence State of Lanthanum in Rust Layer and Mechanism of Its Influence on Invasion State of Corrosion Atoms. steel research international. 93(11). 7 indexed citations

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Kunwar, Anil, et al.. (2021). Multi-phase field simulation of Al 3 Ni 2 intermetallic growth at liquid Al/solid Ni interface using MD computed interfacial energies. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 215. 106930–106930. 13 indexed citations

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Hou, Yanhui, et al.. (2019). Effects of LaAlO3 and La2O2S inclusions on the initialization of localized corrosion of pipeline steels in NaCl solution. Scripta Materialia. 177. 151–156. 53 indexed citations

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Yuan, Yuan, Dajian Li, & Nele Moelans. (2015). Comments on “A numerical method to determine interdiffusion coefficients of Cu6Sn5 and Cu3Sn intermetallic compounds”. Intermetallics. 69. 95–97. 5 indexed citations

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Yuan, Yuan, Yuanyuan Guan, Dajian Li, & Nele Moelans. (2015). Investigation of diffusion behavior in Cu–Sn solid state diffusion couples. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 661. 282–293. 59 indexed citations

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