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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
36
Citations
3889
World Ranking
2585
National Ranking
914

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation In recognition of his innovative computational methods to understand fluid mechanical instabilities and nonlinear evolutions of boundary layers, porous media, doublediffusive convection, mantle convection, crystal growth melt, physical vapor deposition, and cylinder wakes

Best Publications

  • Numerical simulations of three-dimensional thermal convection in a fluid with strongly temperature-dependent viscosity

    Masaki Ogawa;Gerald Schubert;Abdelfattah Zebib

  • Stability of viscous flow past a circular cylinder

    Unknown

  • The effects of significant viscosity variation on convective heat transport in water-saturated porous media

    J. Gary;D. R. Kassoy;H. Tadjeran;A. Zebib

  • Oscillatory thermocapillary convection in open cylindrical annuli. Part 1. Experiments under microgravity

    Unknown

  • Transitions in thermal convection with strongly variable viscosity

    James Todd Ratcliff;Paul J. Tackley;Gerald Schubert;Abdelfattah Zebib

  • Three-dimensional thermal convection in a spherical shell

    D. Bercovici;G. Schubert;G. A. Glatzmaier;A. Zebib

  • Oscillatory two- and three-dimensional thermocapillary convection

    Unknown

  • A Chebyshev method for the solution of boundary value problems

    Unknown

  • Variable viscosity effects on the onset of convection in porous media

    Unknown

  • Oscillatory thermocapillary convection in open cylindrical annuli. Part 2. Simulations

    Unknown

  • Steady tetrahedral and cubic patterns of spherical shell convection with temperature‐dependent viscosity

    James Todd Ratcliff;Gerald Schubert;Abdelfattah Zebib

  • Infinite Prandtl number thermal convection in a spherical shell

    Abdelfattah Zebib;Gerald Schubert;Joe M. Straus

  • Absolute and convective instability of a cylinder wake

    Unknown

  • Character and stability of axisymmetric thermal convection in spheres and spherical shells

    Abdelfattah Zebib;Gerald Schubert;James L. Dein;Ramesh C. Paliwal

  • Effect of free surface heat loss and rotation on transition to oscillatory thermocapillary convection

    Unknown

  • Combined free and forced convection between horizontal parallel planes: some case studies

    Unknown

  • Three-dimensional natural convection motion in a confined porous medium

    Unknown

  • Three-dimensional thermal convection in Czochralski melt

    Alessandro Bottaro;Abdelfattah Zebib

  • Thermal convection in a magnetic fluid

    Unknown

  • High Marangoni number convection in a square cavity

    A. Zebib;G. M. Homsy;E. Meiburg

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