William M. Coombs

1.6k total citations
73 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

William M. Coombs is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William M. Coombs has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 42 papers in Computational Mechanics and 28 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in William M. Coombs's work include Numerical methods in engineering (39 papers), Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (26 papers) and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (16 papers). William M. Coombs is often cited by papers focused on Numerical methods in engineering (39 papers), Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (26 papers) and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (16 papers). William M. Coombs collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and China. William M. Coombs's co-authors include Charles E. Augarde, T.J. Charlton, Roger S. Crouch, Gabriel Hattori, Michael Brown, A. J. Brennan, J. Trevelyan, Jonathan Knappett, Zahur Ullah and Stefano Giani and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Computational Physics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

In The Last Decade

William M. Coombs

66 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William M. Coombs United Kingdom 19 637 572 465 119 96 73 1.1k
H.H. Zhang China 18 946 1.5× 321 0.6× 453 1.0× 86 0.7× 53 0.6× 36 1.0k
Kjell M. Mathisen Norway 14 378 0.6× 532 0.9× 226 0.5× 116 1.0× 33 0.3× 23 856
Yann Monerie France 17 658 1.0× 262 0.5× 220 0.5× 226 1.9× 213 2.2× 43 1.1k
Young‐Cheol Yoon South Korea 14 472 0.7× 220 0.4× 236 0.5× 74 0.6× 64 0.7× 42 577
Mathieu Renouf France 17 446 0.7× 465 0.8× 210 0.5× 253 2.1× 85 0.9× 68 913
Zhiqiang Hu China 15 386 0.6× 187 0.3× 431 0.9× 63 0.5× 27 0.3× 51 720
Tongming Qu China 21 309 0.5× 266 0.5× 628 1.4× 139 1.2× 41 0.4× 66 1.0k
Rong Tian China 18 725 1.1× 306 0.5× 233 0.5× 190 1.6× 174 1.8× 51 927
Francisco Zárate Spain 14 276 0.4× 195 0.3× 246 0.5× 80 0.7× 27 0.3× 35 496
Detlef Kuhl Germany 12 256 0.4× 294 0.5× 339 0.7× 88 0.7× 46 0.5× 36 915

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Coombs, William M., et al.. (2025). Including Pre‐Existing Fractures in Phase Field Fracture Models. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 126(23).
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Coombs, William M., et al.. (2025). An implicit hyperelastoplastic micropolar material point method for shear bands and size effects at finite strains. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 449. 118516–118516.
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Coombs, William M., et al.. (2025). The Aggregated Material Point Method (AgMPM). Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 442. 118012–118012. 2 indexed citations
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Coombs, William M., et al.. (2025). A Dynamic Implicit 3D Material Point‐To‐Rigid Body Contact Approach for Large Deformation Analysis. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 126(14). 1 indexed citations
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Coombs, William M., et al.. (2025). A Stable Poro‐Mechanical Formulation for Material Point Methods Leveraging Overlapping Meshes and Multi‐Field Ghost Penalisation. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 126(5). 2 indexed citations
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Coombs, William M., et al.. (2024). On the implementation of a material point‐based arc‐length method. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 125(9). 2 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael, et al.. (2024). Comparison of 1g and centrifuge modelling of drag anchors with subsurface wireless tracking. International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics. 25(2). 102–114.
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Coombs, William M., et al.. (2023). A coupled implicit MPM-FEM approach for brittle fracture and fragmentation. Computers & Structures. 288. 107143–107143. 7 indexed citations
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Coombs, William M.. (2023). Ghost stabilisation of the material point method for stable quasi‐static and dynamic analysis of large deformation problems. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 124(21). 4841–4875. 16 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Catherine, et al.. (2023). Depth of Lowering and Layered Soils; A Case Study From Across the North Sea. Durham Research Online (Durham University).
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Augarde, Charles E., et al.. (2023). An hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for phase field fracture. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 416. 116336–116336. 8 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael, Benjamin Cerfontaine, Craig Davidson, et al.. (2020). Effects of screw pile installation on installation requirements and in-service performance using the discrete element method. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 58(9). 1334–1350. 31 indexed citations
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Davidson, Craig, Michael Brown, Benjamin Cerfontaine, et al.. (2020). Physical modelling to demonstrate the feasibility of screw piles for offshore jacket-supported wind energy structures. Géotechnique. 72(2). 108–126. 41 indexed citations
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Giani, Stefano, et al.. (2019). A parabolic level set reinitialisation method using a discontinuous Galerkin discretisation. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 78(9). 2944–2960. 1 indexed citations
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Coombs, William M., et al.. (2019). Rapid non-linear finite element analysis of continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods in MATLAB. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 78(9). 3007–3026. 5 indexed citations
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Hattori, Gabriel, J. Trevelyan, Charles E. Augarde, William M. Coombs, & Andrew C. Aplin. (2016). Numerical Simulation of Fracking in Shale Rocks: Current State and Future Approaches. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. 24(2). 281–317. 45 indexed citations
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Coombs, William M.. (2013). Unique critical state single-surface anisotropic hyperplasticity. UPCommons institutional repository (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya). 1360–1371. 1 indexed citations
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Ullah, Zahur, William M. Coombs, & Charles E. Augarde. (2013). An adaptive finite element/meshless coupled method based on local maximum entropy shape functions for linear and nonlinear problems. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 267. 111–132. 34 indexed citations
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Ullah, Zahur, Charles E. Augarde, & William M. Coombs. (2012). Adaptive Modelling of Finite Strain Shear Band Localization Using the Element-Free Galerkin Method. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 1 indexed citations
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Ullah, Zahur, Charles E. Augarde, Roger S. Crouch, & William M. Coombs. (2011). FE-EFGM Coupling Using Maximum Entropy Shape Functions and its Application to Small and Finite Deformation. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 2 indexed citations

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