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Emmanuel Villermaux

Emmanuel Villermaux

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
51
Citations
12829
World Ranking
1094
National Ranking
22

Emmanuel Villermaux 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 Emmanuel Villermaux sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 195 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Emmanuel Villermaux 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 Emmanuel Villermaux sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For insightful contributions, both qualitative and quantitative, to the fluid dynamical and statistical characterizations of mixing, and for understanding the dynamics and fragmentation of jets and sheets

Overview

Emmanuel Villermaux is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and conducts research primarily within the field of Engineering. Their work focuses on subfields including Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Villermaux include:

  • Xiaofei Wang
  • Lucas Rotily
  • Patrice Meunier
  • Xinghua Jiang
  • Emilie Guilbert

Villermaux has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

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

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Villermaux are:

  • Fragmentation versus Cohesion, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Submicron drops from flapping bursting bubbles, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Laboratory model for plastic fragmentation in the turbulent ocean, 2021, Physical Review Fluids
  • Bubbles spray aerosols: Certitudes and mysteries, 2022, PNAS Nexus
  • Double threshold behavior for breakup of liquid sheets, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In 2010, Villermaux was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for contributions to the fluid dynamical and statistical characterizations of mixing, and the dynamics and fragmentation of jets and sheets.

Best Publications

  • Physics of liquid jets

    Jens Eggers;Emmanuel Villermaux

  • "Infotaxis" as a strategy for searching without gradients

    Massimo Vergassola;Emmanuel Villermaux;Boris I. Shraiman

  • On spray formation

    Philippe Marmottant;Emmanuel Villermaux

  • Break-up and atomization of a round water jet by a high-speed annular air jet

    J. C. Lasheras;E. Villermaux;E. J. Hopfinger

  • Single-drop fragmentation determines size distribution of raindrops

    Emmanuel Villermaux;Emmanuel Villermaux;Benjamin Bossa

  • Bursting bubble aerosols

    Henri Lhuissier;Emmanuel Villermaux

  • Flow regimes of large-velocity-ratio coaxial jets

    H. Rehab;E. Villermaux;E. J. Hopfinger

  • Drop fragmentation on impact

    Emmanuel Villermaux;Benjamin Bossa

  • Atomization by jet impact

    N. Bremond;E. Villermaux

  • What Determines the Drop Size in Sprays

    Stefan Kooij;Rick Sijs;Morton M. Denn;Emmanuel Villermaux;Emmanuel Villermaux

  • Mixing in coaxial jets

    E. Villermaux;H. Rehab

  • Odor Landscapes in Turbulent Environments

    Antonio Celani;Antonio Celani;Emmanuel Villermaux;Massimo Vergassola;Massimo Vergassola

  • Life of a flapping liquid sheet

    E. Villermaux;C. Clanet

  • Ligament-mediated spray formation.

    Emmanuel Villermaux;Philippe Marmottant;J. Duplat

  • Mixing and Spray Formation in Coaxial Jets

    Emmanuel Villermaux

  • Mixing Versus Stirring

    Emmanuel Villermaux

  • Life of a smooth liquid sheet

    Christophe Clanet;Emmanuel Villermaux

  • Stretching, Coalescence, and Mixing in Porous Media

    Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz;Emmanuel Villermaux

  • Short-term dynamics of a density interface following an impact

    A. Antkowiak;N. Bremond;S. Le Dizès;E. Villermaux

  • Drop Shaping by Laser-Pulse Impact

    Alexander L. Klein;Wilco Bouwhuis;Claas Willem Visser;Henri Lhuissier

  • Mixing is an aggregation process

    Emmanuel Villermaux;Jérôme Duplat

  • Memory-induced low frequency oscillations in closed convection boxes.

    Emmanuel Villermaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Lohse
Detlef Lohse University of Twente
Marco Dentz
Marco Dentz Spanish National Research Council
Emil J. Hopfinger
Emil J. Hopfinger Grenoble Alpes University
Jacco H. Snoeijer
Jacco H. Snoeijer University of Twente
Philippe Marmottant
Philippe Marmottant Grenoble Alpes University
Howard A. Stone
Howard A. Stone Princeton University
Chao Sun
Chao Sun Tsinghua University
Jean-Marc Chomaz
Jean-Marc Chomaz École Polytechnique
Christophe Clanet
Christophe Clanet École Polytechnique
Jörg Schumacher
Jörg Schumacher Ilmenau University of Technology

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