2026 Franck Nicoud: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	42	1776	1646	49	46	201	13973

Overview

Franck Nicoud is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with a particular focus on subfields such as Computational Mechanics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Neurology.

The main topics of their work include:

Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Combustion and flame dynamics
Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications
Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
Blood properties and coagulation

Franck Nicoud has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

Simon Mendez
Damien Garcia
Florian Vixège
Daniel Mantilla
Vincent Costalat

They have published often in the following venues:

Interventional Neuroradiology
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
PLoS ONE
Journal of Computational Physics
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Franck Nicoud include:

Combining analytical models and LES data to determine the transfer function from swirled premixed flames, 2020, Combustion and Flame
Mathematical and computational modeling of device-induced thrombosis, 2021, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering
Venous Thromboembolism: Review of Clinical Challenges, Biology, Assessment, Treatment, and Modeling, 2023, Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Impact of the membrane viscosity on the tank-treading behavior of red blood cells, 2021, Physical Review Fluids
Clinical impact of Sim & Size^® simulation software in the treatment of patients with cerebral aneurysms with flow-diverter Pipeline stents, 2021, Interventional Neuroradiology

Best Publications

Subgrid-scale stress modelling based on the square of the velocity gradient tensor

Franck Nicoud;Frédéric Ducros

4707
Citations
Large-Eddy Simulation of the Shock/Turbulence Interaction

F Ducros;V Ferrand;F Nicoud;C Weber

809
Citations
Using singular values to build a subgrid-scale model for large eddy simulations

Franck Nicoud;Hubert Baya Toda;Olivier Cabrit;Sanjeeb Bose

807
Citations
An approach to wall modeling in large-eddy simulations

N. V. Nikitin;Franck Nicoud;B. Wasistho;K. Squires

649
Citations
Acoustic modes in combustors with complex impedances and multidimensional active flames

Franck Nicoud;Laurent Benoit;Claude Sensiau;Thierry Poinsot

492
Citations
Thermoacoustic instabilities : Should the Rayleigh criterion be extended to include entropy changes?

Franck Nicoud;Thierry Poinsot

304
Citations
Red cells' dynamic morphologies govern blood shear thinning under microcirculatory flow conditions

Luca Lanotte;Johannes Mauer;Simon Mendez;Dmitry A. Fedosov

277
Citations
Conservative High-Order Finite-Difference Schemes for Low-Mach Number Flows

F. Nicoud

248
Citations
Actual impedance of nonreflecting Boundary conditions: Implications for computation of resonators

Laurent Selle;Franck Nicoud;Thierry Poinsot

238
Citations
Image-based large-eddy simulation in a realistic left heart

Christophe Chnafa;Simon Mendez;Franck Nicoud

217
Citations
Development and assessment of a coupled strategy for conjugate heat transfer with Large Eddy Simulation: Application to a cooled turbine blade

Florent Duchaine;Alban Corpron;Lorenzo Pons;Vincent Moureau

211
Citations
Compact finite difference schemes on non-uniform meshes. Application to direct numerical simulations of compressible flows

L. Gamet;F. Ducros;Franck Nicoud;Thierry Poinsot

203
Citations
Combining a Helmholtz solver with the flame describing function to assess combustion instability in a premixed swirled combustor

Camilo Fernando Silva;Franck Nicoud;Thierry Schuller;Thierry Schuller;Daniel Durox;Daniel Durox

203
Citations
Large eddy simulation wall-modeling based on suboptimal control theory and linear stochastic estimation

Franck Nicoud;Jeffrey Baggett;Parviz Moin;William Cabot

183
Citations
Flow forcing techniques for numerical simulation of combustion instabilities

André Kaufmann;Franck Nicoud;Thierry Poinsot

178
Citations
Joint use of compressible large-eddy simulation and Helmholtz solvers for the analysis of rotating modes in an industrial swirled burner

Laurent Selle;Laurent Benoit;Thierry Poinsot;Franck Nicoud

161
Citations
Mixed acoustic–entropy combustion instabilities in gas turbines

Emmanuel Motheau;Franck Nicoud;Thierry Poinsot

149
Citations
About the zero Mach number assumption in the calculation of thermoacoustic instabilities

Franck Nicoud;Kerstin Wieczorek

146
Citations
Comparison of Direct and Indirect Combustion Noise Mechanisms in a Model Combustor

Matthieu Leyko;Franck Nicoud;Thierry Poinsot

145
Citations
Flow-Induced Transitions of Red Blood Cell Shapes under Shear.

Johannes Mauer;Simon Mendez;Luca Lanotte;Franck Nicoud

136
Citations
Large-eddy simulation and acoustic analysis of a swirled staged turbulent combustor

Charles Etienne Martin;Laurent Jean-Louis Benoit;Yannick Sommerer;Franck Nicoud

120
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Poinsot Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse

Stéphane Moreau Université de Sherbrooke

Bijan Mohammadi University of Montpellier

Gerhard Gompper Forschungszentrum Jülich

Parviz Moin Stanford University

Laurent Gicquel Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique

Thierry Schuller Paul Sabatier University

Daniel Durox CentraleSupélec

Gabriel Staffelbach Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales

Gilles Bruneaux French Institute of Petroleum

External Links

Personal website of Franck Nicoud Google Scholar page

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