Stéphane Popinet

10.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
116 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Stéphane Popinet is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stéphane Popinet has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Computational Mechanics, 25 papers in Oceanography and 23 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Stéphane Popinet's work include Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (53 papers), Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows (19 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (18 papers). Stéphane Popinet is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (53 papers), Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows (19 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (18 papers). Stéphane Popinet collaborates with scholars based in France, New Zealand and United States. Stéphane Popinet's co-authors include Stéphane Zaleski, Pierre‐Yves Lagrée, Luc Deike, Lydie Staron, Daniel Fuster, Christophe Josserand, José M. López-Herrera, W. Kendall Melville, Miguel A. Herrada and Laurent Duchemin and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Stéphane Popinet

110 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

An accurate adaptive solver for surface-tension-driven in... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2009 2003 2017 2015 250 500 750 1000
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. An accurate adaptive solver for surface-tension-driven interfacial flows
    2009 1.1k citations Stéphane Popinet Journal of Computational Physics profile →
  2. Gerris: a tree-based adaptive solver for the incompressible Euler equations in complex geometries
    2003 956 citations Stéphane Popinet Journal of Computational Physics profile →
  3. Numerical Models of Surface Tension
    2017 405 citations Stéphane Popinet profile →
  4. A quadtree-adaptive multigrid solver for the Serre–Green–Naghdi equations
    2015 255 citations Stéphane Popinet Journal of Computational Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stéphane Popinet France 40 6.0k 1.4k 1.3k 1.3k 1.1k 116 7.8k
John R. Lister United Kingdom 45 2.8k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 580 0.4× 974 0.7× 826 0.7× 129 7.2k
J. U. Brackbill United States 39 8.5k 1.4× 1.7k 1.2× 1000 0.7× 2.3k 1.7× 1.2k 1.0× 92 13.3k
E. J. Hinch United Kingdom 53 5.2k 0.9× 962 0.7× 1.6k 1.2× 2.1k 1.6× 665 0.6× 137 9.5k
Christophe Josserand France 35 4.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 483 0.4× 486 0.4× 2.8k 2.5× 118 6.2k
Francis H. Harlow United States 33 7.3k 1.2× 389 0.3× 939 0.7× 798 0.6× 305 0.3× 96 9.6k
G. M. Homsy United States 56 6.4k 1.1× 976 0.7× 1.6k 1.2× 2.3k 1.8× 681 0.6× 154 9.8k
Ruben Scardovelli Italy 26 4.9k 0.8× 796 0.6× 788 0.6× 898 0.7× 815 0.7× 54 5.6k
Élisabeth Guazzelli France 37 3.2k 0.5× 373 0.3× 1.9k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 68 0.1× 103 5.4k
Federico Toschi Netherlands 44 5.4k 0.9× 898 0.7× 2.7k 2.0× 791 0.6× 191 0.2× 238 7.1k
Jacques Magnaudet France 45 5.1k 0.9× 306 0.2× 2.3k 1.7× 3.4k 2.6× 263 0.2× 120 6.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Popinet, Stéphane, et al.. (2025). Size amplification of jet drops due to insoluble surfactants. Physical Review Fluids. 10(12).
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Frassoldati, Alessio, et al.. (2024). A low-Mach volume-of-fluid model for the evaporation of suspended droplets in buoyancy-driven flows. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 234. 126115–126115. 4 indexed citations
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Josserand, Christophe, et al.. (2024). A coupled VOF/embedded boundary method to model two-phase flows on arbitrary solid surfaces. Computers & Fluids. 278. 106317–106317. 12 indexed citations
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Popinet, Stéphane, et al.. (2024). Fragmentation from inertial detachment of a sessile droplet: implications for pathogen transport. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1002. 3 indexed citations
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Scardovelli, Ruben, et al.. (2024). An edge-based interface tracking (EBIT) method for multiphase-flow simulation with surface tension. Journal of Computational Physics. 508. 113016–113016. 10 indexed citations
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Popinet, Stéphane, et al.. (2023). Bag-mediated film atomization in a cough machine. Physical Review Fluids. 8(7). 21 indexed citations
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Antkowiak, Arnaud, et al.. (2023). Direct numerical simulations of bubble-mediated gas transfer and dissolution in quiescent and turbulent flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 954. 21 indexed citations
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Hooft, Antoon van & Stéphane Popinet. (2022). A fourth-order accurate adaptive solver for incompressible flow problems. Journal of Computational Physics. 462. 111251–111251. 5 indexed citations
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Popinet, Stéphane, et al.. (2022). Revisiting wind wave growth with fully coupled direct numerical simulations. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 951. 23 indexed citations
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Popinet, Stéphane, et al.. (2022). Direct numerical simulations of dilute gas transfer by breaking waves. Physical Review Fluids. 7(11).
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Mostert, Wouter, Stéphane Popinet, & Luc Deike. (2022). High-resolution direct simulation of deep water breaking waves: transition to turbulence, bubbles and droplets production. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 942. 66 indexed citations
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Panfilov, М., et al.. (2021). Numerical modeling of fluid flow through multiscale fractured-porous media by quadtrees. Journal of Computational Physics. 444. 110566–110566. 4 indexed citations
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Delestre, Olivier, et al.. (2021). B-flood 1.0: an open-source Saint-Venant model for flash-flood simulation using adaptive refinement. Geoscientific model development. 14(11). 7117–7132. 11 indexed citations
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Popinet, Stéphane, et al.. (2020). Chaotic orbits of tumbling ellipsoids. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 903. 3 indexed citations
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Popinet, Stéphane, et al.. (2018). Adaptive Cartesian Meshes for Atmospheric Single-Column Models,a study using Basilisk 18-02-16. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 2 indexed citations
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Beetham, Eddie, Paul S. Kench, & Stéphane Popinet. (2017). Future Reef Growth Can Mitigate Physical Impacts of Sea‐Level Rise on Atoll Islands. Earth s Future. 5(10). 1002–1014. 50 indexed citations
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Deike, Luc, W. Kendall Melville, & Stéphane Popinet. (2016). Air entrainment and bubble statistics in breaking waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 801. 91–129. 196 indexed citations
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Zaleski, Stéphane & Stéphane Popinet. (2000). Bubble collapse near a solid boundary. APS. 53. 1 indexed citations

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