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Christophe Josserand

Christophe Josserand

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
41
Citations
8981
World Ranking
1893
National Ranking
53

Christophe Josserand publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christophe Josserand sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 184 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Christophe Josserand D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christophe Josserand sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christophe Josserand is a researcher affiliated with the École Polytechnique in France, specializing primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work encompasses a number of subfields including Computational Mechanics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The research topics covered by Josserand focus heavily on areas such as Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity, Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies, Icing and De-icing Technologies, Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows, and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows.

Josserand has published extensively in various reputable venues. The most frequent publication sites include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Europhysics Letters (EPL)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Josserand are:

  • Modeling of aerosol transmission of airborne pathogens in ICU rooms of COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Retraction and freezing of a water film on ice, 2020, Physical Review Fluids
  • Contact Line Catch Up by Growing Ice Crystals, 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • B-flood 1.0: an open-source Saint-Venant model for flash-flood simulation using adaptive refinement, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • A coupled VOF/embedded boundary method to model two-phase flows on arbitrary solid surfaces, 2024, Computers & Fluids

Josserand frequently collaborates with various co-authors in their research. These include:

  • Thomas Séon
  • Axel Huerre
  • Camille Duprat
  • Rodolphe Grivet
  • Yves Pomeau

Best Publications

  • Drop Impact on a Solid Surface

    C. Josserand;Sigurdur T Thoroddsen

  • Drop dynamics after impact on a solid wall: Theory and simulations

    Jens Eggers;Marco A. Fontelos;Christophe Josserand;Stéphane Zaleski

  • Maximum Diameter of Impacting Liquid Droplets

    Nick Laan;Karla G. de Bruin;Denis Bartolo;Christophe Josserand

  • Droplet splashing on a thin liquid film

    Christophe Josserand;Stéphane Zaleski

  • Retraction dynamics of aqueous drops upon impact on non-wetting surfaces

    Denis Bartolo;Christophe Josserand;Daniel Bonn

  • Jet formation in bubbles bursting at a free surface

    Laurent Duchemin;Stéphane Popinet;Christophe Josserand;Stéphane Zaleski

  • Inviscid coalescence of drops

    L Duchemin;JG Eggers;C Josserand

  • Singular jets and bubbles in drop impact.

    Denis Bartolo;Christophe Josserand;Daniel Bonn

  • Pyramidal and toroidal water drops after impact on a solid surface

    Yuriko Renardy;Stéphane Popinet;Laurent Duchemin;Michael Renardy

  • Numerical simulation of droplets, bubbles and waves: state of the art

    Daniel Fuster;Gilou Agbaglah;Christophe Josserand;Stéphane Popinet

  • Condensation of classical nonlinear waves.

    Colm Connaughton;Christophe Josserand;Antonio Picozzi;Yves Pomeau

  • Retraction dynamics of aquous drops upon impact on nonwetting surfaces

    Denis Bartolo;Christophe Josserand;Daniel Bonn

  • Memory effects in granular materials

    Christophe Josserand;Alexei V. Tkachenko;Daniel M. Mueth;Heinrich M. Jaeger

  • Weak turbulence for a vibrating plate: can one hear a Kolmogorov spectrum?

    Gustavo Düring;Christophe Josserand;Sergio Rica

  • Spreading dynamics of drop impacts

    Guillaume Lagubeau;Marco A. Fontelos;Christophe Josserand;Agnès Maurel

  • von Kármán vortex street within an impacting drop

    Marie-Jean Thoraval;Kohsei Takehara;Takeharu Goji Etoh;Stéphane Popinet

  • On the physics of fizziness: How bubble bursting controls droplets ejection

    Elisabeth Ghabache;Arnaud Antkowiak;Christophe Josserand;Thomas Séon

  • Impact of a viscous liquid drop.

    Robert D. Schroll;Christophe Josserand;Stéphane Zaleski;Wendy W. Zhang

  • Parallel simulation of multiphase flows using octree adaptivity and the volume-of-fluid method

    Gilou Agbaglah;Sébastien Delaux;Daniel Fuster;Jérôme Hoepffner

  • Instant fabrication and selection of folded structures using drop impact

    Arnaud Antkowiak;Basile Audoly;Christophe Josserand;Sébastien Neukirch

  • Droplet impact on a dry surface: triggering the splash with a small obstacle

    C. Josserand;L. Lemoyne;R. Troeger;S. Zaleski

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Zaleski
Stéphane Zaleski Sorbonne University
Stéphane Popinet
Stéphane Popinet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yves Pomeau
Yves Pomeau École Polytechnique
Olivier Cadot
Olivier Cadot University of Liverpool
Cyril Touzé
Cyril Touzé École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées
Daniel Bonn
Daniel Bonn University of Amsterdam
Basile Audoly
Basile Audoly Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frédéric Darboux
Frédéric Darboux INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen
Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jens Eggers
Jens Eggers University of Bristol

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