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D-Index
75
Citations
17919
World Ranking
289
National Ranking
143

Fotis Sotiropoulos 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 Fotis Sotiropoulos sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 475 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fotis Sotiropoulos 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 Fotis Sotiropoulos sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% 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

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions in vortex dynamics, flowstructure interactions, and chaotic dynamics in civil, mechanical and biomedical applications

Overview

Fotis Sotiropoulos is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and environmental science, with a focus on fluid dynamics and its applications.

The main fields of study addressed by Sotiropoulos include:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science

Their research subfields cover:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Ocean Engineering

Sotiropoulos's primary research topics encompass:

  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows

Frequent publication venues for Sotiropoulos include:

  • Physics of Fluids
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Energies
  • Default Digital Object Group
  • Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters

Co-authorship has been observed mainly with the following researchers:

  • Ali Khosronejad
  • Christian Santoni
  • Zexia Zhang
  • Seokkoo Kang
  • Xiaolei Yang

Recent published papers reflect the diversity and scope of their work:

  • Time-Averaged Wind Turbine Wake Flow Field Prediction Using Autoencoder Convolutional Neural Networks (2021), Energies
  • Water exit dynamics of jumping archer fish: Integrating two-phase flow large-eddy simulation with experimental measurements (2020), Physics of Fluids
  • High-fidelity simulations and field measurements for characterizing wind fields in a utility-scale wind farm (2020), Applied Energy
  • On the genesis and evolution of barchan dunes: Hydrodynamics (2020), Physics of Fluids
  • A quasi-coupled wind wave experimental framework for testing offshore wind turbine floating systems (2021), Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters

Throughout their career, Sotiropoulos has been recognized by professional societies with honors including:

  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2018)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (2009) with citation for seminal contributions in vortex dynamics, flow-structure interactions, and chaotic dynamics in civil, mechanical, and biomedical applications

Best Publications

  • A hybrid Cartesian/immersed boundary method for simulating flows with 3D, geometrically complex, moving bodies

    Anvar Gilmanov;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Curvilinear immersed boundary method for simulating fluid structure interaction with complex 3D rigid bodies

    Iman Borazjani;Liang Ge;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Numerical investigation of the hydrodynamics of carangiform swimming in the transitional and inertial flow regimes.

    Iman Borazjani;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Immersed boundary methods for simulating fluid-structure interaction

    Fotis Sotiropoulos;Xiaolei Yang

  • A numerical method for solving the 3D unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in curvilinear domains with complex immersed boundaries

    Liang Ge;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Vortex-induced vibrations of two cylinders in tandem arrangement in the proximity-wake interference region.

    Iman Borazjani;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Experimental and computational investigation of local scour around bridge piers

    Ali Khosronejad;Seokkoo Kang;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Numerical investigation of the hydrodynamics of anguilliform swimming in the transitional and inertial flow regimes

    I. Borazjani;F. Sotiropoulos

  • On the role of form and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of self-propelled body/caudal fin swimming

    I. Borazjani;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • On the interaction between a turbulent open channel flow and an axial-flow turbine

    L. P. Chamorro;C. Hill;S. Morton;Christopher Ellis

  • A general reconstruction algorithm for simulating flows with complex 3D immersed boundaries on Cartesian grids

    A. Gilmanov;F. Sotiropoulos;E. Balaras

  • Flow in prosthetic heart valves: state-of-the-art and future directions.

    Ajit P. Yoganathan;K. B. Chandran;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODEL OF LATERAL-INTAKE INFLOWS

    V. S. Neary;F. Sotiropoulos;A. J. Odgaard

  • On the bimodal dynamics of the turbulent horseshoe vortex system in a wing-body junction

    Joongcheol Paik;Cristian Escauriaza;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • On the onset of wake meandering for an axial flow turbine in a turbulent open channel flow

    Seokkoo Kang;Xiaolei Yang;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Characterization of Hemodynamic Forces Induced by Mechanical Heart Valves: Reynolds vs. Viscous Stresses

    Liang Ge;Liang Ge;Lakshmi P. Dasi;Fotis Sotiropoulos;Ajit P. Yoganathan

  • Vorticity dynamics of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve in an axisymmetric aorta

    L. P. Dasi;L. Ge;H. A. Simon;F. Sotiropoulos

  • Reynolds number dependence of turbulence statistics in the wake of wind turbines

    Leonardo P. Chamorro;R. E A Arndt;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • High-resolution numerical simulation of turbulence in natural waterways

    Seokkoo Kang;Anne Lightbody;Craig Hill;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • An overset-grid method for 3D unsteady incompressible flows

    H. S. Tang;S. Casey Jones;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Numerical simulation of 3D flow past a real-life marine hydrokinetic turbine

    Seokkoo Kang;Iman Borazjani;Jonathan A. Colby;Fotis Sotiropoulos

  • Toward patient-specific simulations of cardiac valves: state-of-the-art and future directions.

    Emiliano Votta;Trung Bao Le;Marco Stevanella;Laura Fusini

  • THREE DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODEL FOR FLOW THROUGH NATURAL RIVERS

    Sanjiv K. Sinha;Fotis Sotiropoulos;A. Jacob Odgaard

Frequent Co-Authors

Iman Borazjani
Iman Borazjani Texas A&M University
Ajit P. Yoganathan
Ajit P. Yoganathan Georgia Institute of Technology
Leonardo P. Chamorro
Leonardo P. Chamorro University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roger E. A. Arndt
Roger E. A. Arndt University of Minnesota
Michele Guala
Michele Guala University of Minnesota
Panayiotis Diplas
Panayiotis Diplas Lehigh University
Fernando Porté-Agel
Fernando Porté-Agel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Arthur G. Erdman
Arthur G. Erdman University of Minnesota
Jiarong Hong
Jiarong Hong University of Minnesota
George V. Lauder
George V. Lauder Harvard University

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