Wessel W. Wits

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Wessel W. Wits is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wessel W. Wits has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 22 papers in Automotive Engineering and 16 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wessel W. Wits's work include Heat Transfer and Optimization (25 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (22 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (21 papers). Wessel W. Wits is often cited by papers focused on Heat Transfer and Optimization (25 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (22 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (21 papers). Wessel W. Wits collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Italy. Wessel W. Wits's co-authors include Davoud Jafari, Bernard J. Geurts, Tom Vaneker, Juan Manuel Jauregui Becker, Adam T. Clare, Christopher Hyde, Hao Chen, Salomé Sanchez, Ian Ashcroft and Zhengkai Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Alloys and Compounds and Applied Thermal Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Wessel W. Wits

71 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Powder Bed Fusion of nickel-based superalloys: A review

2021 364 citations Salomé Sanchez, Peter H. Smith et al. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wessel W. Wits Netherlands	18	1.6k	874	246	209	200	76	1.9k
Fabrizia Caiazzo Italy	24	1.5k 1.0×	862 1.0×	182 0.7×	376 1.8×	215 1.1×	88	1.9k
Bradley Howell Jared United States	21	1.2k 0.8×	761 0.9×	213 0.9×	199 1.0×	297 1.5×	65	1.7k
Dong‐Gyu Ahn South Korea	17	1.4k 0.9×	785 0.9×	225 0.9×	276 1.3×	166 0.8×	116	1.7k
Elena López Germany	15	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	297 1.2×	265 1.3×	198 1.0×	73	2.1k
Glen Snedden South Africa	7	1.2k 0.8×	808 0.9×	183 0.7×	204 1.0×	118 0.6×	32	1.5k
C. Li United States	15	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	195 0.8×	267 1.3×	80 0.4×	21	1.9k
Elena Bassoli Italy	22	981 0.6×	681 0.8×	212 0.9×	247 1.2×	317 1.6×	80	1.4k
Usman Ali Canada	22	1.7k 1.1×	946 1.1×	342 1.4×	166 0.8×	128 0.6×	59	2.0k
Raya Mertens Belgium	15	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	252 1.0×	199 1.0×	219 1.1×	22	2.1k
John Slotwinski United States	18	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	154 0.6×	358 1.7×	226 1.1×	36	1.8k

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Clare, Adam T., Behzad Rankouhi, Frank E. Pfefferkorn, et al.. (2025). Metal multi-material additive manufacturing: Overcoming barriers to implementation. CIRP Annals. 74(2). 869–893. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Hyun-Jong, Neelakandan M. Santhosh, Camila Barreneche, et al.. (2025). Review on properties, physics, and fabrication of two-dimensional material-based metal-matrix composites (2DMMCs) for heat transfer systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 217. 115700–115700. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Hyun-Jong, et al.. (2025). Characterization of thermal properties of ball-milled copper-graphene powder as feedstock for additive manufacturing. Powder Technology. 466. 121423–121423.

Wits, Wessel W., et al.. (2025). Laser powder bed fusion process parameters for the fabrication of unsupported overhang structures of metamaterial lattices. CIRP Annals. 74(1). 309–313. 1 indexed citations

Wits, Wessel W., et al.. (2024). Thermal-hydrodynamic modeling and design for microchannel cold plates subjected to multiple heat sources. Applied Thermal Engineering. 262. 125220–125220.

Lee, Hyun-Jong, et al.. (2024). Measurement of effective thermal conductivity of composite powders of 2D materials and metals for additive manufacturing. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2766(1). 12186–12186. 3 indexed citations

Clare, Adam T., et al.. (2021). Interlaced layer thicknesses within single laser powder bed fusion geometries. CIRP Annals. 70(1). 203–206. 4 indexed citations

Sanchez, Salomé, Peter H. Smith, Zhengkai Xu, et al.. (2021). Powder Bed Fusion of nickel-based superalloys: A review. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture. 165. 103729–103729. 364 indexed citations breakdown →

Wits, Wessel W. & Emiel Amsterdam. (2021). Graded structures by multi-material mixing in laser powder bed fusion. CIRP Annals. 70(1). 159–162. 43 indexed citations

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Lupoi, Rocco, M. Meyer, Wessel W. Wits, & Shuo Yin. (2020). The role of particles flow characteristics in the performance of cold spray nozzles. CIRP Annals. 69(1). 189–192. 8 indexed citations

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Legtenberg, R., et al.. (2018). Method to determine thermoelastic material properties of constituent and copper-patterned layers of multilayer printed circuit boards. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 29(6). 4900–4914. 21 indexed citations

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Jafari, Davoud, Wessel W. Wits, & Bernard J. Geurts. (2018). Metal 3D-printed wick structures for heat pipe application: Capillary performance analysis. Applied Thermal Engineering. 143. 403–414. 137 indexed citations

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Jafari, Davoud & Wessel W. Wits. (2018). The utilization of selective laser melting technology on heat transfer devices for thermal energy conversion applications: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 91. 420–442. 229 indexed citations

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Wits, Wessel W., et al.. (2017). Physics in Design: Real-time Numerical Simulation Integrated into the CAD Environment. Procedia CIRP. 60. 98–103. 1 indexed citations

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Jafari, Davoud, Wessel W. Wits, & Bernard J. Geurts. (2017). An investigation of porous structure characteristics of heat pipes made by additive manufacturing. University of Twente Research Information. 1–7. 18 indexed citations

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Wits, Wessel W., et al.. (2016). How Additive Manufacturing Enables more Sustainable End-user Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Strategies. Procedia CIRP. 40. 693–698. 66 indexed citations

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Schreiber, M., et al.. (2016). Numerical and experimental investigation of a counter-current two-phase thermosyphon with cascading pools. Applied Thermal Engineering. 99. 133–146. 13 indexed citations

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Möhring, Hans‐Christian, P. Kersting, Simone Carmignato, et al.. (2015). A Testpart for Interdisciplinary Analyses in Micro Production Engineering. Procedia CIRP. 28. 106–112. 5 indexed citations

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Becker, Juan Manuel Jauregui & Wessel W. Wits. (2014). An Experience-Based Approach to Teaching Product Design. 688–693. 3 indexed citations

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Chechurin, Leonid, et al.. (2011). Integrating TRIZ function modeling in CAD software. University of Twente Research Information. 18–25. 5 indexed citations

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