2026 Alexander Düster: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	38	7985	7700	271	261	232	6575

Overview

Alexander Düster is affiliated with Hamburg University of Technology in Germany and specializes in the field of engineering, with a focus on computational mechanics. Their research output spans a broad range of topics within this field, including numerical methods, fluid dynamics simulations, and mechanical stress analysis.

The main fields of study reflected in their work include:

Engineering

The more specific subfields of study associated with their publications are:

Computational Mechanics
Mechanics of Materials
Civil and Structural Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

Alexander Düster's research explores multiple main topics, highlighted as follows:

Numerical methods in engineering
Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods
Granular flow and fluidized beds
Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis

Notable recent papers provide insight into the scope of their work, including:

A Selection of Benchmark Problems in Solid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 2020, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Non-negative moment fitting quadrature for cut finite elements and cells undergoing large deformations, 2022, Computational Mechanics
Numerical and experimental study of the hydrodynamic coefficients and power absorption of a two-body point absorber wave energy converter, 2022, Renewable Energy
Fluid-structure interaction and stress analysis of a floating wind turbine, 2021, Marine Structures
A remeshing strategy for large deformations in the finite cell method, 2020, Computers & Mathematics with Applications

Frequently appearing publication venues include:

PAMM
Computational Mechanics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
International Journal of Computational Methods

Collaboration is a strong component of their work, with frequent co-authors such as:

Lars Radtke
Wadhah Garhuom
Mahan Gorji
Sascha Eisenträger
Daniel Juhre

Alexander Düster has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Springer Vienna:

Modeling in Engineering Using Innovative Numerical Methods for Solids and Fluids, 2020

Best Publications

Finite cell method

Jamshid Parvizian;Jamshid Parvizian;Alexander Düster;Ernst Rank

685
Citations
The finite cell method for three-dimensional problems of solid mechanics

A. Düster;J. Parvizian;Z. Yang;E. Rank

640
Citations
The p‐Version of the Finite Element Method

Barna Szabó;Alexander Düster;Ernst Rank

313
Citations
The p‐version of the finite element method for three‐dimensional curved thin walled structures

A. Düster;H. Bröker;E. Rank

280
Citations
Geometric modeling, isogeometric analysis and the finite cell method

E. Rank;M. Ruess;S. Kollmannsberger;D. Schillinger

248
Citations
Small and large deformation analysis with the p- and B-spline versions of the Finite Cell Method

Dominik Schillinger;Martin Ruess;Nils Zander;Yuri Bazilevs

230
Citations
The hp‐d‐adaptive finite cell method for geometrically nonlinear problems of solid mechanics

D. Schillinger;A. Düster;E. Rank

144
Citations
Numerical homogenization of heterogeneous and cellular materials utilizing the finite cell method

Alexander Düster;Hans-Georg Sehlhorst;Ernst Rank

126
Citations
PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT INTEGRATION SCHEMES IN FACING DISCONTINUITIES IN THE FINITE CELL METHOD

Alireza Abedian;Jamshid Parvizian;Alexander Düster;Hassan Khademyzadeh

126
Citations
Numerical analysis of Lamb waves using the finite and spectral cell methods

S. Duczek;M. Joulaian;A. Düster;U. Gabbert

125
Citations
Numerical integration of discontinuities on arbitrary domains based on moment fitting

Meysam Joulaian;Simeon Hubrich;Alexander Düster

122
Citations
High order finite elements for shells

E. Rank;A. Düster;V. Nübel;K. Preusch

115
Citations
Topology optimization using the finite cell method

J. Parvizian;A. Düster;E. Rank

113
Citations
The p-version of the finite element method compared to an adaptive h-version for the deformation theory of plasticity

A. Düster;E. Rank

110
Citations
An efficient integration technique for the voxel‐based finite cell method

Z. Yang;M. Ruess;S. Kollmannsberger;A. Düster

106
Citations
Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of the Finite Cell Method

Monique Dauge;Alexander Düster;Ernst Rank

105
Citations
Finite and spectral cell method for wave propagation in heterogeneous materials

Meysam Joulaian;Sascha Duczek;Ulrich Gabbert;Alexander Düster

103
Citations
p-FEM applied to finite isotropic hyperelastic bodies

Alexander Düster;Stefan Hartmann;Ernst Rank

100
Citations
Shell Finite Cell Method: A high order fictitious domain approach for thin-walled structures

E. Rank;S. Kollmannsberger;Ch. Sorger;A. Düster

94
Citations
On volumetric locking‐free behaviour of p‐version finite elements under finite deformations

Ulrich Heisserer;Stefan Hartmann;Alexander Düster;Zohar Yosibash

91
Citations
A p‐version finite element approach for two‐ and three‐dimensional problems of the J2 flow theory with non‐linear isotropic hardening

A. Düster;E. Rank;E. Rank

88
Citations