2026 Andrea Prosperetti: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	82	183	166	88	74	436	24552

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
2012 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the fundamentals and applications of multiphase flows.
2000 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1993 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For basic contributions to twophase flow models, bubble oscillations and entrapment, underwater rain noise, and cavitation

Overview

Andrea Prosperetti is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States and specializes in engineering, with a focus on computational mechanics, ocean engineering, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and pollution. Their research encompasses multiple subfields and main topics related to fluid dynamics and multiphase flow phenomena.

Their work frequently addresses topics such as particle dynamics in fluid flows, fluid dynamics and thin films, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, fluid dynamics and mixing, ultrasound and cavitation phenomena, granular flow and fluidized beds, and Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization.

Prosperetti's recent papers include:

Gas-Vapor Interplay in Plasmonic Bubble Shrinkage, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Modelling the thermal behaviour of gas bubbles, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Marangoni Instability of a Drop in a Stably Stratified Liquid, 2021, Physical Review Letters
How ambient conditions affect the Leidenfrost temperature, 2021, Soft Matter
Gas depletion through single gas bubble diffusive growth and its effect on subsequent bubbles, 2022, e-Archivo (Carlos III University of Madrid)

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

Guangzhao Zhou
Detlef Lohse
Yuhang Zhang
Yuliang Wang
Harold J. W. Zandvliet

Prosperetti often publishes in venues such as the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids, arXiv (Cornell University), The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, and Physical Review Letters.

Their career includes recognitions such as:

Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2012) for contributions to the fundamentals and applications of multiphase flows
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1997)
Fellow of American Physical Society (1993) with citation for basic contributions to two-phase flow models, bubble oscillations and entrapment, underwater rain noise, and cavitation

Best Publications

Bubble Dynamics and Cavitation

Milton S. Plesset;Andrea Prosperetti

2539
Citations
Computational Methods for Multiphase Flow

Andrea Prosperetti;Grétar Tryggvason

1041
Citations
Linear pressure waves in bubbly liquids: Comparison between theory and experiments

Kerry W. Commander;Andrea Prosperetti

1001
Citations
Bubble dynamics in a compressible liquid. Part 1. First-order theory

A. Prosperetti;A. Lezzi

825
Citations
Dynamics of bubble growth and detachment from a needle

Hasan N. Oguz;Andrea Prosperetti

634
Citations
Nonlinear bubble dynamics

Andrea Prosperetti;Lawrence A. Crum;Kerry W. Commander

612
Citations
Drop impact on superheated surfaces.

Tuan Tran;Hendrik J. J. Staat;Andrea Prosperetti;Andrea Prosperetti;Chao Sun

557
Citations
Thermal effects and damping mechanisms in the forced radial oscillations of gas bubbles in liquids

Andrea Prosperetti

526
Citations
Bubble entrainment by the impact of drops on liquid surfaces

Hasan N. Oguz;Andrea Prosperetti

443
Citations
THE THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF OSCILLATING GAS BUBBLES

Andrea Prosperetti

394
Citations
Averaged equations for inviscid disperse two-phase flow

D. Z. Zhang;A. Prosperetti

363
Citations
Viscous effects on perturbed spherical flows

Andrea Prosperetti

345
Citations
The crevice model of bubble nucleation

Anthony A. Atchley;Andrea Prosperetti

334
Citations
Free oscillations of drops and bubbles: the initial-value problem

Andrea Prosperetti

314
Citations
Droplet impact on superheated micro-structured surfaces

Tuan Tran;Hendrik J. J. Staat;Arturo Susarrey-Arce;Tobias C. Foertsch

311
Citations
A theoretical study of sonoluminescence

V. Kamath;A. Prosperetti;F. N. Egolfopoulos

307
Citations
Vapour-bubble growth in a superheated liquid

Andrea Prosperetti;Milton S. Plesset

304
Citations
Bubble phenomena in sound fields: part one

A. Prosperetti

279
Citations
A note on the effective slip properties for microchannel flows with ultrahydrophobic surfaces

M. Sbragaglia;Andrea Prosperetti

272
Citations
Bubble dynamics in a compressible liquid. Part 2. Second-order theory

A. Lezzi;A. Prosperetti

244
Citations
Drop impact on superheated surfaces

Tuan Tran;Erik-Jan Staat;Andrea Prosperetti;Chao Sun

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Lohse University of Twente

Chao Sun Tsinghua University

Lawrence A. Crum University of Washington

Claus-Dieter Ohl Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata

Xuehua Zhang University of Alberta

Gretar Tryggvason Johns Hopkins University

Ronald A. Roy University of Oxford

Joseph Katz Johns Hopkins University

Federico Toschi Eindhoven University of Technology

External Links

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