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D-Index
42
Citations
6208
World Ranking
1846
National Ranking
133

Dominic Vella 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 Dominic Vella sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 178 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dominic Vella 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 Dominic Vella sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dominic Vella is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with specific expertise in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and mechanics of materials. Additional subfields of interest include surfaces, coatings and films, as well as plant science.

The main topics addressed in their work span advanced materials and mechanics, adhesion, friction, and surface interactions, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, plant and biological electrophysiology studies, structural analysis and optimization, and modular robots and swarm intelligence.

Dominic Vella has contributed to multiple publications across several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

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

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Dominic Vella include:

  • Insect-scale jumping robots enabled by a dynamic buckling cascade, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Snap-induced morphing: From a single bistable shell to the origin of shape bifurcation in interacting shells, 2022, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Tapered elasticæ as a route for axisymmetric morphing structures, 2020, Soft Matter
  • Delayed bifurcation in elastic snap-through instabilities, 2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Validity of Winkler's mattress model for thin elastomeric layers: beyond Poisson's ratio, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

The scientists frequently collaborate with several coauthors, including Mingchao Liu, K. Jimmy Hsia, Andrea Giudici, Yuzhe Wang, and Sameh Tawfick. Mingchao Liu is noted as the most frequent collaborator.

Best Publications

  • The “Cheerios effect”

    Dominic Vella;L. Mahadevan

  • The macroscopic delamination of thin films from elastic substrates

    Dominic Vella;José Bico;Arezki Boudaoud;Benoit Roman

  • Elasticity of an interfacial particle raft

    Dominic Vella;Pascale Aussillous;L. Mahadevan

  • Prototypical model for tensional wrinkling in thin sheets

    Benny Davidovitch;Robert D. Schroll;Dominic Vella;Mokhtar Adda-Bedia

  • Critical slowing down in purely elastic 'snap-through' instabilities

    Michael Gomez;Derek E. Moulton;Dominic Vella

  • The indentation of pressurized elastic shells: from polymeric capsules to yeast cells

    Dominic Vella;Amin Ajdari;Ashkan Vaziri;Arezki Boudaoud

  • Optimal Fractal-Like Hierarchical Honeycombs

    Ramin Oftadeh;Babak Haghpanah;Dominic Vella;Arezki Boudaoud

  • The load supported by small floating objects.

    Dominic Vella;Duck-Gyu Lee;Ho-Young Kim

  • Dynamics of snapping beams and jumping poppers

    Anupam Pandey;Derek E. Moulton;Dominic Vella;Douglas P. Holmes

  • Floating Versus Sinking

    Dominic Vella

  • Elastometry of deflated capsules: elastic moduli from shape and wrinkle analysis.

    Sebastian Knoche;Dominic Vella;Elodie Aumaitre;Patrick Degen

  • Are Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids Dilute Electrolytes?

    Alpha A. Lee;Dominic Vella;Susan Perkin;Alain Goriely

  • Indentation of ellipsoidal and cylindrical elastic shells

    Dominic Vella;Amin Ajdari;Ashkan Vaziri;Arezki Boudaoud

  • Passive Control of Viscous Flow via Elastic Snap-Through.

    Michael Gomez;Derek E. Moulton;Dominic Vella

  • Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets

    Joseph D. Paulsen;Evan Hohlfeld;Hunter King;Jiangshui Huang

  • Wrinkling of pressurized elastic shells.

    Dominic Vella;Amin Ajdari;Ashkan Vaziri;Arezki Boudaoud

  • A refined sampling strategy for intra-tooth stable isotope analysis of mammalian enamel

    A. Zazzo;R. Bendrey;D. Vella;A.P. Moloney

  • Capillary wrinkling of elastic membranes

    Dominic Vella;Mokhtar Adda-Bedia;Enrique Cerda

  • Capillary wrinkling of elastic membranes

    D. Vella;D. Vella;M. Adda-Bedia;E. Cerda

  • Gravity currents in a porous medium at an inclined plane.

    Dominic Vella;Herbert E. Huppert

  • Capillary deformations of bendable films.

    R. D. Schroll;M. Adda-Bedia;E. Cerda;J. Huang

  • Lattice-Boltzmann simulations of droplet evaporation

    Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar;Dominic Vella;Julia M. Yeomans

  • The “footloose” mechanism: Iceberg decay from hydrostatic stresses

    Till J. W. Wagner;Till J. W. Wagner;Peter Wadhams;Richard Bates;Pedro Elosegui

  • Are Room Temperature Ionic Liquids Dilute Electrolytes

    Alpha A Lee;Dominic Vella;Susan Perkin;Alain Goriely

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Goriely
Alain Goriely University of Oxford
Arezki Boudaoud
Arezki Boudaoud École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Ashkan Vaziri
Ashkan Vaziri Northeastern University
John R. Lister
John R. Lister University of Cambridge
Ho-Young Kim
Ho-Young Kim Seoul National University
Herbert E. Huppert
Herbert E. Huppert University of Cambridge
Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Antoine Zazzo
Antoine Zazzo French National Museum of Natural History
Robert W. Field
Robert W. Field University of Oxford
Julia M. Yeomans
Julia M. Yeomans University of Oxford

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