Peter Stephan

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
246 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Stephan is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Stephan has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 140 papers in Computational Mechanics and 36 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peter Stephan's work include Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (113 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (82 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films (68 papers). Peter Stephan is often cited by papers focused on Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (113 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (82 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films (68 papers). Peter Stephan collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and India. Peter Stephan's co-authors include Tatiana Gambaryan‐Roisman, C.A. Busse, Christian Kunkelmann, Christof Sodtke, Frank Dammel, Cameron Tropea, Nitin Karwa, Vladimir S. Ajaev, Stefan Herbert and Axel Sielaff and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Langmuir and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Peter Stephan

233 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Analysis of the heat transfer coefficient of grooved heat pipe evaporator walls

1992 380 citations Peter Stephan, C.A. Busse International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Stephan Germany	38	3.2k	2.7k	1.1k	863	665	246	4.7k
Ranganathan Kumar United States	36	1.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	2.5k 2.2×	1.3k 1.5×	240 0.4×	173	4.2k
Justin A. Weibel United States	39	1.8k 0.6×	3.6k 1.3×	967 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	863 1.3×	222	5.4k
Yuri S. Muzychka Canada	38	1.4k 0.4×	2.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	627 0.7×	305 0.5×	213	4.5k
Sameer Khandekar India	37	1.4k 0.4×	3.9k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	571 0.7×	454 0.7×	149	5.1k
Suresh V. Garimella United States	36	1.3k 0.4×	2.4k 0.9×	781 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	897 1.3×	108	4.2k
Teck Neng Wong Singapore	46	1.7k 0.5×	2.8k 1.0×	2.5k 2.2×	1.5k 1.7×	255 0.4×	243	6.7k
Xiao Yan China	38	1.7k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	977 0.9×	807 0.9×	1.8k 2.7×	165	4.0k
Man Yeong Ha South Korea	40	3.3k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	2.7k 2.5×	539 0.6×	367 0.6×	283	5.9k
Ralph L. Webb United States	53	3.2k 1.0×	8.4k 3.1×	1.8k 1.6×	381 0.4×	419 0.6×	179	9.5k
Tianyou Wang China	32	1.7k 0.5×	732 0.3×	942 0.8×	626 0.7×	191 0.3×	207	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Stephan

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Dammel, Frank, et al.. (2025). Exergy-based multi-objective optimization of the green flash ironmaking process. Energy Conversion and Management. 344. 120123–120123.

Dammel, Frank, et al.. (2025). Metals and hydrogen derivatives for long-distance energy supply–A techno-economic comparison. Energy Conversion and Management. 342. 120125–120125.

Gambaryan‐Roisman, Tatiana, et al.. (2024). Heat transport during drop impact onto a heated wall covered with an electrospun nanofiber mat: The influence of wall superheat, impact velocity, and mat thickness. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 157. 111230–111230. 4 indexed citations

Sielaff, Axel, et al.. (2024). On the nature of microlayer formation with ethanol-water mixtures. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 203. 109135–109135. 3 indexed citations

Stephan, Peter, et al.. (2024). Numerical simulation of drop impingement onto superheated textured walls. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2766(1). 12085–12085.

Dammel, Frank, et al.. (2024). Thermodynamic, Economic and Maturity Analysis of a Carnot Battery with a Two-Zone Water Thermal Energy Storage for Different Working Fluids. Energies. 17(2). 437–437. 2 indexed citations

Sielaff, Axel, et al.. (2024). Physical modeling of conjugate heat transfer for multiregion and multiphase systems with the Volume-of-Fluid method. Engineering With Computers. 41(2). 761–783. 1 indexed citations

Rocha, Rodolfo C., Paulo Debiagi, Arne Scholtissek, et al.. (2023). Techno-economic assessment of long-distance supply chains of energy carriers: Comparing hydrogen and iron for carbon-free electricity generation. Applications in Energy and Combustion Science. 14. 100128–100128. 33 indexed citations

Sielaff, Axel, et al.. (2023). Boiling regimes of a single droplet impinging on a superheated surface: Effect of the surrounding medium. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 220. 124982–124982. 3 indexed citations

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Stephan, Peter, et al.. (2023). Hydrodynamics and heat transport during the vertical coalescence of multiple drops impacting successively onto a hot wall. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 204. 123856–123856. 4 indexed citations

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Zabulis, Xenophon, Sotiris P. Evgenidis, Margaritis Kostoglou, et al.. (2023). Advances on the detection and measurement of bubble contours during subcooled boiling in microgravity. Measurement. 222. 113644–113644. 1 indexed citations

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Kubach, Heiko, et al.. (2022). Influence of DMC percentage in fuel on deposit formation and emission behaviour. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. 95. 108949–108949. 4 indexed citations

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Dammel, Frank, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of the waste heat utilization from a hot-water-cooled high performance computer via a heat pump. Energy Reports. 7. 70–78. 5 indexed citations

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Dammel, Frank, et al.. (2020). Exergoeconomic analysis of a pumped heat electricity storage system based on a Joule/Brayton cycle. Energy Science & Engineering. 9(5). 645–660. 11 indexed citations

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Gambaryan‐Roisman, Tatiana, et al.. (2019). Spreading of Micrometer-Sized Droplets under the Influence of Insoluble and Soluble Surfactants: A Numerical Study. Colloids and Interfaces. 3(3). 56–56. 1 indexed citations

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Stroh, Alexander, et al.. (2019). Combined direct numerical simulation and long-wave simulation of a liquid film sheared by a turbulent gas flow in a channel. Physics of Fluids. 31(2). 11 indexed citations

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Stephan, Peter, et al.. (2017). Two dye combinations suitable for two-color/two-dye laser-induced fluorescence thermography for ethanol. Experiments in Fluids. 58(6). 2 indexed citations

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Dettmann, Jan, Balázs Tóth, Josef Winter, et al.. (2010). RUBI -a Reference mUltiscale Boiling Investigation for the Fluid Science Laboratory. cosp. 38. 18. 2 indexed citations

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Roisman, Ilia V., et al.. (2008). Dynamics of a liquid film produced by spray impact onto a heated target. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 25(3). 231–234. 1 indexed citations

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Stephan, Peter & C.A. Busse. (1991). Assessment of an improved model for the heat transfer coefficient of grooved heat pipe evaporators. ESA Special Publication. 1. 587–592. 3 indexed citations

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