2026 George M. Homsy: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	71	358	163	227	17764

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Research.com Recognitions

2006 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For innovative experimental and theoretical studies of multiphase and interfacial flow phenomena and for the development of educational materials in fluid mechanics.
2004 - Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (APS)
1984 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding contributions in stability theory and in the flow of twophase materials

Overview

George M. Homsy was affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research contributions centered primarily in the field of engineering, with specific focus on subfields such as biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their work addressed topics including modular robots and swarm intelligence, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, electrowetting and microfluidic technologies, and soft robotics and applications.

They published research in notable venues such as Advanced Functional Materials and the Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.

"Electro-Elastic Wetting: A Method to Migrate and Deform Droplets", 2023, Advanced Functional Materials
"Indentation and bifurcation of inflated membranes", 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Their frequent coauthors included Amirhossein Amini, Tianshu Liu, Vidyacharan Gopaluni Venkata, Theodore Rex Orth, and Wenyang Pan.

George M. Homsy received multiple recognitions during their career. These awards included:

Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2006) for innovative experimental and theoretical studies of multiphase and interfacial flow phenomena and the development of educational materials in fluid mechanics
Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society (APS) in 2004
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1984, recognized for contributions in stability theory and in the flow of two-phase materials

Best Publications

Viscous fingering in porous media

G M Homsy

2334
Citations
Two-phase displacement in Hele Shaw cells: theory

C.-W. Park;G. M. Homsy

732
Citations
Stokes flow through periodic arrays of spheres

A. A. Zick;G. M. Homsy

663
Citations
Stability of miscible displacements in porous media: Rectilinear flow

C. T. Tan;G. M. Homsy

498
Citations
Convection in a porous cavity

Ken L. Walker;George M. Homsy

464
Citations
Simulation of nonlinear viscous fingering in miscible displacement

C. T. Tan;G. M. Homsy

455
Citations
A continuous media I/O server and its synchronization mechanism

D.P. Anderson;G. Homsy

374
Citations
Granular slumping on a horizontal surface

E. Lajeunesse;J. B. Monnier;G. M. Homsy

361
Citations
Evaporating menisci of wetting fluids

Steven Moosman;G.M Homsy

320
Citations
High Marangoni number convection in a square cavity

A. Zebib;G. M. Homsy;E. Meiburg

283
Citations
Stability of Newtonian and viscoelastic dynamic contact lines

M. A. Spaid;G. M. Homsy

280
Citations
Steady free-surface thin film flows over topography

Serafim Kalliadasis;Catherine Bielarz;G. M. Homsy

271
Citations
Axisymmetric deformation and stability of a viscous drop in a steady electric field

Etienne Lac;G. M. Homsy

256
Citations
Nonlinear viscous fingering in miscible displacement with anisotropic dispersion

W. B. Zimmerman;G. M. Homsy

256
Citations
Thermophoretic deposition of small particles in laminar tube flow

Ken L Walker;Ken L Walker;George M Homsy;George M Homsy;Franz T Geyling;Franz T Geyling

243
Citations
HINDERED SETTLING AND HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSION IN QUIESCENT SEDIMENTING SUSPENSIONS

J.M. Ham;G.M. Homsy

226
Citations
MODELING SHAPES AND DYNAMICS OF CONFINED BUBBLES

Vladimir S. Ajaev;G.M. Homsy

225
Citations
Convective instabilities in porous media with through-flow

George M. Homsy;Albert E. Sherwood

220
Citations
Nonlinear analysis of buoyant convection in binary solidification with application to channel formation

Gustav Amberg;G. M. Homsy

218
Citations
Fingering instabilities in vertical miscible displacement flows in porous media

O. Manickam;G. M. Homsy

190
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Hudson University of Virginia

Serafim Kalliadasis Imperial College London

Stephen H. Davis Northwestern University

Eckart Meiburg University of California, Santa Barbara

Simone Hochgreb University of Cambridge

Peter C. Wayner Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California

John R. Grace University of British Columbia

Satish Kumar University of Minnesota

Elisabeth Guazzelli Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

External Links

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