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D-Index
51
Citations
7187
World Ranking
3977
National Ranking
48

A. De Wit publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. De Wit sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 165 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

A. De Wit D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. De Wit sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to our understanding of the coupling between chemical reaction, hydrodynamics, and pattern formation driven by coupled reactinghydrodynamic systems

Overview

A. De Wit is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and has contributed extensively to multiple fields of study, with a primary focus on physics and engineering. Their research intersects a range of subfields including computational mechanics, environmental engineering, computer networks and communications, condensed matter physics, and atomic and molecular physics.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics within theoretical and applied physics, often exploring nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation. This includes significant engagement with areas such as CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Their publication record reflects a focus on both theoretical and experimental studies, with frequent contributions appearing in established journals. Notable venues hosting their work include:

  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by A. De Wit feature a variety of topics and include:

  • Chemobrionics: From Self-Assembled Material Architectures to the Origin of Life, 2020, Artificial Life
  • Scalings of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability at Large Viscosity Contrasts in Porous Media, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Diffusion in liquid mixtures, 2023, npj Microgravity
  • Influence of rectilinear vs radial advection on the yield of A + B → C reaction fronts: A comparison, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Effects of radial injection and solution thickness on the dynamics of confined A + B → C chemical fronts, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Frequently collaborating researchers include Fabian Brau, Dezső Horváth, Karin Schwarzenberger, Gábor Schuszter, and Laurence Rongy. Fabian Brau has notably co-authored the largest number of papers together with A. De Wit.

In addition to journal articles, A. De Wit has contributed to book publications, including the volume Chemistry Challenges of the 21st Century issued by World Scientific in 2023.

The contributions of A. De Wit have been recognized by the awarding of the Fellowship of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015, acknowledging work on the coupling between chemical reactions, hydrodynamics, and pattern formation in reacting hydrodynamic systems.

Best Publications

  • Search for dark matter produced with an energetic jet or a hadronically decaying W or Z boson at √s = 13 TeV

    A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;E. Asilar

  • SPATIAL PATTERNS AND SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS IN CHEMICAL SYSTEMS

    A. De Wit

  • Fingering of Chemical Fronts in Porous Media

    A. De Wit

  • Spatiotemporal dynamics near a codimension-two point

    A. De Wit;D. Lima;G. Dewel;P. Borckmans

  • Chemically Driven Hydrodynamic Instabilities

    C. Almarcha;P. M. J. Trevelyan;P. Grosfils;A. De Wit

  • Nonlinear evolution equations for thin liquid films with insoluble surfactants

    A. De Wit;D. Gallez;C. I. Christov

  • Buoyancy-driven instabilities of miscible two-layer stratifications in porous media and Hele-Shaw cells

    P. M. J. Trevelyan;C. Almarcha;A. De Wit

  • Viscous fingering in reaction-diffusion systems

    A. De Wit;G. M. Homsy

  • Viscous fingering in periodically heterogeneous porous media. II. Numerical simulations

    A. De Wit;G. M. Homsy

  • Viscous fingering of miscible slices

    A. De Wit;Y. Bertho;M. Martin

  • Chemo-hydrodynamic Patterns and Instabilities

    A. De Wit

  • Generic spatiotemporal dynamics near codimension-two Turing-Hopf bifurcations

    M. Meixner;A. De Wit;S. Bose;E. Schöll

  • Miscible density fingering of chemical fronts in porous media: Nonlinear simulations

    A. De Wit

  • Viscous fingering of a miscible reactive A + B → C interface: a linear stability analysis

    S. H. Hejazi;P. M. J. Trevelyan;J. Azaiez;A. De Wit

  • Differences in miscible viscous fingering of finite width slices with positive or negative log-mobility ratio.

    M. Mishra;M. Martin;A. De Wit

  • Miscible viscous fingering induced by a simple A+B-->C chemical reaction.

    T. Gérard;A. De Wit

  • Competition in ramped Turing structures

    P. Borckmans;A. De Wit;G. Dewel

  • Influence of double diffusive effects on miscible viscous fingering.

    M. Mishra;M. Mishra;P. M. J. Trevelyan;C. Almarcha;C. Almarcha;A. De Wit

  • Viscous fingering in periodically heterogeneous porous media. I. Formulation and linear instability

    A. De Wit;G. M. Homsy

  • On Marangoni convective patterns driven by an exothermic chemical reaction in two-layer systems

    D. A. Bratsun;A. De Wit

  • Nonlinear interactions of chemical reactions and viscous fingering in porous media

    A. De Wit;G. M. Homsy

  • Viscous fingering in packed chromatographic columns: linear stability analysis.

    G. Rousseaux;A. De Wit;M. Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

George M. Homsy
George M. Homsy University of Washington
Serafim Kalliadasis
Serafim Kalliadasis Imperial College London
John H. Merkin
John H. Merkin University of Leeds
John A. Pojman
John A. Pojman Louisiana State University
Jean-Louis Tison
Jean-Louis Tison Université Libre de Bruxelles
Eckart Meiburg
Eckart Meiburg University of California, Santa Barbara
Abdelfattah Zebib
Abdelfattah Zebib Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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