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2026

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130
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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2019 - Max Planck Medal, German Physical Society
  • 2018 - International Balzan Prize
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to fundamental fluid mechanical processes, especially turbulence in Rayleigh-Bénard and Taylor-Couette flow, sonoluminescence, drops, and surface nanobubbles.
  • 2017 - Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (APS)
  • 2017 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2005 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his decisive role in unraveling the mystery of singlebubble sonoluminescence and his ingenuity in developing scaling arguments for turbulent thermal convection

Overview

Detlef Lohse is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands and has an extensive publication record in the field of engineering, focusing particularly on aspects of fluid dynamics and related interdisciplinary topics.

The main fields of study covered by Lohse's research include:

  • Engineering

Their subfields of study expand into:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Materials Chemistry

Lohse's research topics span a broad array of areas within fluid dynamics and associated phenomena:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Notable recent publications by Lohse include:

  • Fundamental Fluid Dynamics Challenges in Inkjet Printing, 2021, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Droplets out of Equilibrium, 2020, Nature Reviews Physics
  • Solutal Marangoni Effect Determines Bubble Dynamics during Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, 2023, Nature Chemistry
  • Extended Lifetime of Respiratory Droplets in a Turbulent Vapor Puff and Its Implications on Airborne Disease Transmission, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Impact Forces of Water Drops Falling on Superhydrophobic Surfaces, 2022, Physical Review Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lohse include:

  • Roberto Verzicco
  • Christian Diddens
  • Kai Leong Chong
  • Dominik Krug
  • Rui Yang

The common venues for publishing their research are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Throughout their career, Lohse has received several awards and recognitions, including:

  • Max Planck Medal, German Physical Society (2019)
  • International Balzan Prize (2018)
  • Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2017)
  • Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (APS) (2017)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2017) for contributions to fundamental fluid mechanical processes, especially turbulence in Rayleigh-Bénard and Taylor-Couette flow, sonoluminescence, drops, and surface nanobubbles
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2010)
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)
  • Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council (2005)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2002), cited for a decisive role in unraveling the mystery of single-bubble sonoluminescence and developing scaling arguments for turbulent thermal convection

Best Publications

  • Heat transfer and large scale dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    Guenter Ahlers;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Single bubble sonoluminescence

    Michael P. Brenner;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse

  • Scaling in thermal convection: a unifying theory

    Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Small-Scale Properties of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Detlef Lohse;Ke Qing Xia

  • A model for large amplitude oscillations of coated bubbles accounting for buckling and rupture

    Philippe Marmottant;Philippe Marmottant;Sander van der Meer;Marcia Emmer;Michel Versluis

  • Surface nanobubbles and nanodroplets

    Detlef Lohse;Xuehua Zhang

  • How Snapping Shrimp Snap: Through Cavitating Bubbles

    Michel Versluis;Barbara Schmitz;Anna von der Heydt;Anna von der Heydt;Detlef Lohse

  • Fundamental Fluid Dynamics Challenges in Inkjet Printing

    Detlef Lohse

  • Sonoporation from Jetting Cavitation Bubbles

    Claus-Dieter Ohl;Manish Arora;Roy Ikink;Nico de Jong

  • Thermal convection for large Prandtl numbers

    Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Drop impact on superheated surfaces.

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

  • Order-to-Disorder Transition in Ring-Shaped Colloidal Stains

    Alvaro Gomez Marin;Hanneke Gelderblom;Detlef Lohse;Jacobus Hendrikus Snoeijer

  • Phase diagrams for sonoluminescing bubbles

    Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner

  • Microbubble spectroscopy of ultrasound contrast agents

    Sander M. van der Meer;Benjamin Dollet;Marco M. Voormolen;Chien T. Chin

  • Surface cleaning from laser-induced cavitation bubbles

    Claus-Dieter Ohl;Manish Arora;Rory Dijkink;Vaibhav Janve

  • Drop impact upon micro- and nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces

    Peichun Tsai;Sergio Pacheco;Christophe Pirat;Leon Lefferts

  • Dynamic Equilibrium Mechanism for Surface Nanobubble Stabilization

    Michael P. Brenner;Detlef Lohse

  • Multiple scaling in the ultimate regime of thermal convection

    Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection: The role of plumes

    Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Prandtl and Rayleigh number dependence of the Reynolds number in turbulent thermal convection

    Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Drop impact on superheated surfaces

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Chao Sun
Chao Sun Tsinghua University
Roberto Verzicco
Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata
Michel Versluis
Michel Versluis University of Twente
Siegfried Grossmann
Siegfried Grossmann Philipp University of Marburg
Xuehua Zhang
Xuehua Zhang University of Alberta
Andrea Prosperetti
Andrea Prosperetti University of Houston
Richard J. A. M. Stevens
Richard J. A. M. Stevens University of Twente
Sascha Hilgenfeldt
Sascha Hilgenfeldt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nico de Jong
Nico de Jong Delft University of Technology
Jacco H. Snoeijer
Jacco H. Snoeijer University of Twente

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