Wim M. van Rees

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Wim M. van Rees is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wim M. van Rees has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Computational Mechanics, 14 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wim M. van Rees's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (11 papers), Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (11 papers) and Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (10 papers). Wim M. van Rees is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (11 papers), Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (11 papers) and Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (10 papers). Wim M. van Rees collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Wim M. van Rees's co-authors include Petros Koumoutsakos, Mattia Gazzola, L. Mahadevan, Jennifer A. Lewis, Anthony Leonard, Etienne Vouga, D. I. Pullin, J. William Boley, Ryan L. Truby and Charles Lissandrello and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wim M. van Rees

29 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Shape-shifting structured lattices via multimaterial 4D printing

2019 325 citations J. William Boley, Wim M. van Rees et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wim M. van Rees United States	15	614	447	415	342	243	34	1.4k
Geng Liu China	20	462 0.8×	315 0.7×	754 1.8×	153 0.4×	168 0.7×	70	1.4k
Qiaogao Huang China	23	773 1.3×	410 0.9×	797 1.9×	208 0.6×	75 0.3×	151	1.8k
Hossein Haj‐Hariri United States	21	1.0k 1.7×	129 0.3×	809 1.9×	343 1.0×	166 0.7×	70	1.7k
Wei‐Xi Huang China	29	2.4k 3.9×	388 0.9×	1.2k 2.8×	288 0.8×	344 1.4×	148	3.1k
Xueming Shao China	28	1.8k 2.9×	309 0.7×	936 2.3×	299 0.9×	141 0.6×	121	2.6k
Nicholas J. Lawson United Kingdom	20	905 1.5×	163 0.4×	787 1.9×	167 0.5×	26 0.1×	92	1.4k
Fang-Bao Tian Australia	31	2.5k 4.1×	234 0.5×	1.7k 4.0×	314 0.9×	384 1.6×	135	3.4k
Yongsheng Lian United States	27	1.8k 3.0×	345 0.8×	2.4k 5.8×	138 0.4×	165 0.7×	103	3.3k
K. Knowles United Kingdom	21	1.2k 1.9×	200 0.4×	1.5k 3.6×	76 0.2×	76 0.3×	116	1.9k
Yahya Modarres‐Sadeghi United States	25	1.5k 2.5×	209 0.5×	365 0.9×	107 0.3×	38 0.2×	92	2.0k

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Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2025). A high-order immersed finite-difference discretization for solving linear and nonlinear elasticity problems. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 446. 118269–118269.

Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2024). Spheroidal harmonics for generalizing the morphological decomposition of closed parametric surfaces. Construction and Building Materials. 454. 138967–138967. 1 indexed citations

Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2024). A high-order finite difference method for moving immersed domain boundaries and material interfaces. Journal of Computational Physics. 507. 112979–112979. 4 indexed citations

Rees, Wim M. van. (2024). Effect of curvature variations on the hydrodynamic performance of heaving and pitching foils. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. 38(6). 863–877.

Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2024). Multiscale Heterogeneous Polymer Composites for High Stiffness 4D Printed Electrically Controllable Multifunctional Structures (Adv. Mater. 8/2024). Advanced Materials. 36(8). 1 indexed citations

Fidkowski, Krzysztof, et al.. (2024). High-Fidelity CFD Verification Workshop 2024: Post-Workshop Mesh Motion Summary.

Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2024). Vortex bursting and associated twist dynamics on helical vortex tubes and vortex rings. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 986. 1 indexed citations

Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2024). Hydrodynamic forces on a side-by-side ellipse pair with and without relative motion. 4.

Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2023). A sharp immersed method for 2D flow-body interactions using the vorticity-velocity Navier-Stokes equations. Journal of Computational Physics. 494. 112513–112513. 5 indexed citations

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Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2023). Multiscale Heterogeneous Polymer Composites for High Stiffness 4D Printed Electrically Controllable Multifunctional Structures. Advanced Materials. 36(8). e2307858–e2307858. 12 indexed citations

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Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2023). A Deep-Learning Surrogate Model Approach for Optimization of Morphing Airfoils. AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum.

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Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2022). Bursting on a vortex tube with initial axial core-size perturbations. Physical Review Fluids. 7(4). 6 indexed citations

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Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2022). Determination of Optimal Shot Peen Forming Patterns Using the Theory of Non-Euclidean Plates. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. 145(3). 4 indexed citations

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Virot, Emmanuel, Vamsi Spandan, Lili Niu, Wim M. van Rees, & L. Mahadevan. (2020). Elastohydrodynamic Scaling Law for Heart Rates. Physical Review Letters. 125(5). 58102–58102. 5 indexed citations

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Rees, Wim M. van. (2020). Vortex bursting. Physical Review Fluids. 5(11). 8 indexed citations

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Rees, Wim M. van, et al.. (2019). Poisson’s ratio and residual strain of freestanding ultra-thin films. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 137. 103821–103821. 7 indexed citations

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Novati, Guido, Siddhartha Verma, Dmitry Alexeev, et al.. (2017). Synchronisation through learning for two self-propelled swimmers. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 12(3). 36001–36001. 116 indexed citations

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Rees, Wim M. van, Mattia Gazzola, & Petros Koumoutsakos. (2015). Optimal morphokinematics for undulatory swimmers at intermediate Reynolds numbers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 775. 178–188. 47 indexed citations

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Rossinelli, Diego, Babak Hejazialhosseini, Wim M. van Rees, et al.. (2015). MRAG-I2D: Multi-resolution adapted grids for remeshed vortex methods on multicore architectures. Journal of Computational Physics. 288. 1–18. 42 indexed citations

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Rees, Wim M. van, Fazle Hussain, & Petros Koumoutsakos. (2012). Vortex tube reconnection at Re = 104. Physics of Fluids. 24(7). 31 indexed citations

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