Ralf Müller

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
235 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Ralf Müller is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Müller has authored 235 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 78 papers in Materials Chemistry and 72 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ralf Müller's work include Numerical methods in engineering (73 papers), Composite Material Mechanics (44 papers) and Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (25 papers). Ralf Müller is often cited by papers focused on Numerical methods in engineering (73 papers), Composite Material Mechanics (44 papers) and Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (25 papers). Ralf Müller collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United States. Ralf Müller's co-authors include Charlotte Kuhn, Alexander Schlüter, Heiko Andrä, Dietmar Groß, Wolfgang Dornisch, Christoph Schreiber, Xiangyu Li, Matthias Kabel, Sven Klinkel and Guozheng Kang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Müller

219 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

A continuum phase field model for fracture 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. A continuum phase field model for fracture
    2010 479 citations Charlotte Kuhn, Ralf Müller profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralf Müller Germany 28 2.4k 1.1k 1000 804 398 235 3.7k
Bob Svendsen Germany 39 2.1k 0.9× 2.2k 2.0× 2.1k 2.1× 356 0.4× 745 1.9× 204 4.5k
Luca Placidi Italy 40 2.6k 1.1× 2.1k 1.9× 760 0.8× 287 0.4× 969 2.4× 106 4.4k
A.C.F. Cocks United Kingdom 42 1.9k 0.8× 2.2k 1.9× 3.7k 3.7× 902 1.1× 327 0.8× 203 5.7k
Jörg Schröder Germany 33 2.4k 1.0× 840 0.8× 837 0.8× 663 0.8× 1.7k 4.2× 238 4.5k
Martina Hofacker Germany 10 4.9k 2.0× 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 1.7k 2.1× 192 0.5× 16 5.3k
Julien Réthoré France 38 2.7k 1.1× 788 0.7× 1.4k 1.4× 709 0.9× 377 0.9× 120 4.6k
Shaoping Xiao United States 22 1.6k 0.7× 1.8k 1.7× 458 0.5× 819 1.0× 366 0.9× 80 3.5k
Allan F. Bower United States 31 1.3k 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 349 0.4× 462 1.2× 64 3.5k
W. J. Drugan United States 23 2.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 759 0.8× 371 0.5× 934 2.3× 58 3.5k
Stefan Diebels Germany 25 1.1k 0.4× 624 0.6× 842 0.8× 420 0.5× 635 1.6× 186 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralf Müller

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Müller

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schlüter, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Extending the Lattice Boltzmann Method to non-linear elastodynamics. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 443. 118076–118076.
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Müller, Ralf, et al.. (2024). Thermomechanical fatigue life simulation using the phase field method. Computational Materials Science. 235. 112829–112829. 7 indexed citations
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Zhao, Changhao, Andreja Benčan, Fangping Zhuo, et al.. (2024). Impact of stress-induced precipitate variant selection on anisotropic electrical properties of piezoceramics. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10327–10327. 2 indexed citations
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Gao, Shuang, et al.. (2023). Precipitate-domain wall topologies in hardened Li-doped NaNbO3. Acta Materialia. 254. 118998–118998. 8 indexed citations
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Andrä, Heiko, et al.. (2023). Multiscale optimization of the viscoelastic behavior of short fiber reinforced composites. International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design. 19(3). 501–519. 6 indexed citations
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Schlüter, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in a lattice Boltzmann method for elastodynamics. Computational Mechanics. 73(2). 317–339. 11 indexed citations
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Schlüter, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Configurational forces in a phase field model for the cyclic fatigue of heterogeneous materials. Forces in Mechanics. 13. 100239–100239. 2 indexed citations
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Humbert, Angelika, Dietmar Groß, Ralf Müller, et al.. (2023). Fractures in glaciers—Crack tips and their stress fields by observation and modeling. PAMM. 23(3). 1 indexed citations
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Schreiber, Christoph, et al.. (2022). An efficient implementation of a phase field model for fatigue crack growth. International Journal of Fracture. 237(1-2). 47–60. 30 indexed citations
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Stukowski, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Influence of surface stress on the mechanical response of nanoporous metals studied by an atomistically informed continuum model. Acta Materialia. 221. 117373–117373. 2 indexed citations
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Dornisch, Wolfgang, et al.. (2017). Numerical methods for the modeling of the magnetization vector in multiferroic heterostructures. PAMM. 17(1). 503–504. 1 indexed citations
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Kuhn, Charlotte, et al.. (2017). A Monolithic Solution Scheme for a Phase Field Model of Ductile Fracture. PAMM. 17(1). 75–78. 3 indexed citations
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Kuhn, Charlotte, et al.. (2017). Surface Wetting with Droplets: A Phase Field Approach. PAMM. 17(1). 501–502. 6 indexed citations
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Hotz, Hendrik, et al.. (2017). Estimation of Heat Transfer Properties for the FE Simulation of Cryogenic Turning. PAMM. 17(1). 401–402. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Peidong, et al.. (2016). Three-dimensional fundamental thermo-elastic solutions applied to contact problems. Journal of Applied Physics. 120(17). 5 indexed citations
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Li, Xiangyu, et al.. (2015). Fundamental solutions in a half space of two-dimensional hexagonal quasicrystal and their applications. Journal of Applied Physics. 117(15). 9 indexed citations
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Müller, Ralf, et al.. (2012). A Phase Field Model for Martensitic Transformations. PAMM. 12(1). 261–262. 3 indexed citations
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Patel, Anant, Ralf Müller, & Klaus‐Dieter Vorlop. (1995). Einschlußimmobilisierung von biologischen Schädlingsbekämpfungsmitteln. OpenAgrar. 3 indexed citations
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Engell, Sebastian & Ralf Müller. (1991). Controller design by frequency-weighted approximation-the multivariable case. 581–586. 5 indexed citations

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