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Engineering and Technology
Germany
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
89
Citations
29948
World Ranking
289
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

F. Durst is affiliated with FMP Technology (Germany) and conducts research primarily in the field of Engineering, with a focus on Computational Mechanics. Their work spans multiple subfields including Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Heat Transfer Mechanisms, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, and Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with F. Durst include:

  • El-Sayed Zanoun
  • Christoph Egbers
  • Gabriele Bellani
  • Alessandro Talamelli
  • Guanqing Wang

The scientist has published several papers in various peer-reviewed venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Computations of coating windows for reverse roll coating of liquid films, 2020, Journal of Coatings Technology and Research
  • Wall friction relations in wall-bounded shear flows, 2021, European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids
  • Shear orientation of nematic phases of clay nanosheets: processing of barrier coatings, 2021, Journal of Coatings Technology and Research
  • Central rebound jet of a droplet normal impact on a confined thin liquid film, 2022, Physics of Fluids
  • Permeability and the Ergun Equation as a Basis for Permeability Measurements of Metallic Foams and Wire Meshes, 2021, Transport in Porous Media

F. Durst regularly publishes in journals such as the Journal of Turbulence, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India) Series C, Journal of Coatings Technology and Research, Physics of Fluids, and European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids.

In addition to journal articles, Durst has contributed to book publications. This includes the book titled Fluid Mechanics, published by Springer Nature in 2022.

Recognition of their professional standing includes being awarded the title Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Backward-Facing Step Flow

    B. F. Armaly;F. Durst;J. C. F. Pereira;B. Schönung

  • Principles and practice of laser-Doppler anemometry

    F. Durst;A. Melling;J. H. Whitelaw;C. P. Wang

  • Benchmark Computations of Laminar Flow Around a Cylinder

    M. Schäfer;S. Turek;F. Durst;E. Krause

  • Accurate computations of the laminar flow past a square cylinder based on two different methods : lattice-Boltzmann and finite-volume

    M. Breuer;J. Bernsdorf;T. Zeiser;F. Durst

  • Combustion in a Porous Medium-Advances and Applications

    D. Trimis;F. Durst

  • Asymmetric flows and instabilities in symmetric ducts with sudden expansions

    W. Cherdron;F. Durst;J. H. Whitelaw

  • Low-Reynolds-number flow around an oscillating circular cylinder at low Keulegan–Carpenter numbers

    H. Dütsch;F. Durst;S. Becker;H. Lienhart

  • Low Reynolds number flow over a plane symmetric sudden expansion

    F. Durst;A. Melling;J. H. Whitelaw

  • Backward-Facing Step Flows for Various Expansion Ratios at Low and Moderate Reynolds Numbers

    G. Biswas;M. Breuer;F. Durst

  • Eulerian and Lagrangian predictions of particulate two-phase flows: a numerical study

    F. Durst;D. Miloievic;B. Schönung

  • On the motion of particles in turbulent duct flows

    S.L. Lee;F. Durst

  • The Development Lengths of Laminar Pipe and Channel Flows

    F. Durst;S. Ray;B. Ünsal;O. A. Bayoumi

  • Comparison of volume-of-fluid methods for surface tension-dominant two-phase flows

    D. Gerlach;G. Tomar;G. Biswas;F. Durst

  • Two-phase electrohydrodynamic simulations using a volume-of-fluid approach

    G. Tomar;D. Gerlach;G. Biswas;N. Alleborn

  • Presentation of anisotropy properties of turbulence, invariants versus eigenvalue approaches

    S. Banerjee;R. Krahl;F. Durst;Ch. Zenger

  • LDA measurements in the near-wall region of a turbulent pipe flow

    F. Durst;J. Jovanovic;J. Sender

  • Evaluating the law of the wall in two-dimensional fully developed turbulent channel flows

    E.-S. Zanoun;F. Durst;H. Nagib

  • Numerical simulations of single phase reacting flows in randomly packed fixed-bed reactors and experimental validation

    Hannsjörg Freund;Thomas Zeiser;Florian Huber;Elias Klemm

  • Effect of high rotation rates on the laminar flow around a circular cylinder

    D. Stojković;M. Breuer;F. Durst

  • Momentum and heat transfer from cylinders in laminar crossflow at 10−4 ⩽ Re ⩽ 200

    C.F. Lange;F. Durst;M. Breuer

  • The plane Symmetric sudden-expansion flow at low Reynolds numbers

    F. Durst;J. C. F. Pereira;C. Tropea

  • Experiments on the rise of air bubbles in clean viscous liquids

    T. Maxworthy;C. Gnann;M. Kürten;F. Durst

  • Validation and application of a novel elongational device for polymer solutions

    M. Stelter;Günter Brenn;A.L. Yarin;R.P. Singh

  • Computation of fluid-structure interaction on lightweight structures

    M. Glück;M. Breuer;F. Durst;A. Halfmann

  • Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics

    R. J. Adrian;D. F. G. Durão;F. Durst;M. Maeda

  • Further contributions on the two-dimensional flow in a sudden expansion

    N. Alleborn;K. Nandakumar;H. Raszillier;F. Durst

  • Evaporation of acoustically levitated multi-component liquid droplets

    Günter Brenn;L.J. Deviprasath;Franz Durst;Clemens Fink

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Breuer
Michael Breuer Helmut Schmidt University
Dimosthenis Trimis
Dimosthenis Trimis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jose C. F. Pereira
Jose C. F. Pereira Instituto Superior Técnico
Günter Brenn
Günter Brenn Graz University of Technology
Ernst Rank
Ernst Rank Technical University of Munich
Subhash C. Mishra
Subhash C. Mishra Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Cameron Tropea
Cameron Tropea Technical University of Darmstadt
Alexander L. Yarin
Alexander L. Yarin University of Illinois at Chicago
Hassan M. Nagib
Hassan M. Nagib Illinois Institute of Technology
Ashutosh Sharma
Ashutosh Sharma Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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