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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
67
Citations
16837
World Ranking
462
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For illuminating experiments on RayleighBenard convection and directional solidification, for ground breaking measurements of acceleration in fully developed turbulence, and for significant contributions to understanding electroconvection in liquid crystals
  • 1993 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Eberhard Bodenschatz is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany. They have made significant contributions predominantly in the field of Engineering, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Condensed Matter Physics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research prominently centers on topics related to Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Infection Control and Ventilation, Micro and Nano Robotics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and Wind and Air Flow Studies.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Gholamhossein Bagheri, Birte Thiede, Oliver Schlenczek, Alain Pumir, and Bardia Hejazi. These collaborations indicate a broad engagement with experts in fluid dynamics, biomedical applications, and related scientific domains.

Publications by Eberhard Bodenschatz have appeared in notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Physical Review Letters, New Journal of Physics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. These platforms reflect an active participation in both preprint and peer-reviewed scientific communication channels.

Selected recent papers include:

  • EUREC 4 A, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • Respiratory aerosols and droplets in the transmission of infectious diseases, 2023, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • An upper bound on one-to-one exposure to infectious human respiratory particles, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Size, concentration, and origin of human exhaled particles and their dependence on human factors with implications on infection transmission, 2022, Journal of Aerosol Science
  • Boundary Zonal Flow in Rotating Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Their work includes contributions to the understanding of turbulent flows and their applications in infection control, as well as the dynamics of respiratory particles relevant to infectious disease transmission.

Awards received by Eberhard Bodenschatz include:

  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (2020), field: Physics
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2020)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2003), recognized for experiments on Rayleigh-Bénard convection, measurements of acceleration in turbulence, and contributions to electroconvection in liquid crystals
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1993)

Best Publications

  • Recent Developments in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Eberhard Bodenschatz;Werner Pesch;Guenter Ahlers

  • Lagrangian Properties of Particles in Turbulence

    Federico Toschi;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Fluid particle accelerations in fully developed turbulence

    A. La Porta;Greg A. Voth;Alice M. Crawford;Jim Alexander

  • Measurement of particle accelerations in fully developed turbulence

    Greg A. Voth;A. La Porta;Alice M. Crawford;Jim Alexander

  • A quantitative study of three-dimensional Lagrangian particle tracking algorithms

    Nicholas T. Ouellette;Haitao Xu;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Measurement of Particle Accelerations in Fully Developed Turbulence

    Greg A. Voth;A. La Porta;Alice M. Crawford;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Sequential bottom-up assembly of mechanically stabilized synthetic cells by microfluidics

    Marian Weiss;Marian Weiss;Johannes Patrick Frohnmayer;Johannes Patrick Frohnmayer;Lucia Theresa Benk;Lucia Theresa Benk;Barbara Haller;Barbara Haller

  • Spiral defect chaos in large aspect ratio Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Stephen W. Morris;Eberhard Bodenschatz;David S. Cannell;Guenter Ahlers

  • Low-energy control of electrical turbulence in the heart

    Stefan Luther;Flavio H. Fenton;Bruce G. Kornreich;Amgad Squires

  • On electrically driven pattern-forming instabilities in planar nematics

    Eberhard Bodenschatz;Walter Zimmermann;Lorenz Kramer

  • Experimental Lagrangian acceleration probability density function measurement

    Nicolas Mordant;Alice M. Crawford;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Transition to the Ultimate State of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Xiaozhou He;Denis Funfschilling;Holger Nobach;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • The Role of Pair Dispersion in turbulent flow

    Mickaël Bourgoin;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Haitao Xu;Jacob Berg

  • Can We Understand Clouds Without Turbulence

    Eberhard Bodenschatz;Szymon P. Malinowski;Raymond A. Shaw;Frank Stratmann

  • Transitions between patterns in thermal convection.

    E. Bodenschatz;J. R. De Bruyn;J. R. De Bruyn;G. Ahlers;G. Ahlers;D. S. Cannell;D. S. Cannell

  • Lagrangian acceleration measurements at large Reynolds numbers

    Greg A. Voth;K. Satyanarayan;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Universal Intermittent Properties of Particle Trajectories in Highly Turbulent Flows

    Alain Arnéodo;R. Benzi;J. Berg;L. Biferale

  • Apparatus for the study of Rayleigh–Bénard convection in gases under pressure

    John R. de Bruyn;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Stephen W. Morris;Steven P. Trainoff

  • Termination of atrial fibrillation using pulsed low-energy far-field stimulation.

    Flavio H. Fenton;Stefan Luther;Elizabeth M. Cherry;Niels F. Otani

  • Settling regimes of inertial particles in isotropic turbulence

    G. H. Good;P. J. Ireland;G. P. Bewley;E. Bodenschatz

  • Motion of inertial particles with size larger than Kolmogorov scale in turbulent flows

    Haitao Xu;Eberhard Bodenschatz

Frequent Co-Authors

Guenter Ahlers
Guenter Ahlers University of California, Santa Barbara
Nicholas T. Ouellette
Nicholas T. Ouellette Stanford University
Nicolas Mordant
Nicolas Mordant Grenoble Alpes University
Raymond A. Shaw
Raymond A. Shaw Michigan Technological University
Federico Toschi
Federico Toschi Eindhoven University of Technology
David S. Cannell
David S. Cannell University of California, Santa Barbara
Kai Sundmacher
Kai Sundmacher Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Gregory Falkovich
Gregory Falkovich Weizmann Institute of Science
Gregor Eichele
Gregor Eichele Max Planck Society
Robert E. Ecke
Robert E. Ecke Los Alamos National Laboratory

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