The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guenter Ahlers sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 411 publications — 40th percentile
40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guenter Ahlers sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 82 D-Index — 24th percentile
24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.
Guenter Ahlers is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily within engineering and environmental science, with a focus on computational mechanics and global and planetary change as notable subfields.
Their scholarly work broadly covers topics including fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, wind and air flow studies, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and combustion and flame dynamics.
Frequent co-authors working alongside Ahlers include Eberhard Bodenschatz, Xiaozhou He, Marcel Wedi, Lukas Zwirner, and Stephan Weiss.
Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.
Recent representative papers are:
Ahlers has received multiple recognitions including the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society in 2007, fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1997. Other notable distinctions include fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990, membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1982, the Fritz London Memorial Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in 1978, and fellowship in the American Physical Society since 1971.
H. Eugene Stanley;Guenter Ahlers
Guenter Ahlers;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse
Eberhard Bodenschatz;Werner Pesch;Guenter Ahlers
Stephen W. Morris;Eberhard Bodenschatz;David S. Cannell;Guenter Ahlers
Guenter Ahlers;R. P. Behringer
Xiaozhou He;Denis Funfschilling;Holger Nobach;Eberhard Bodenschatz
E. Bodenschatz;J. R. De Bruyn;J. R. De Bruyn;G. Ahlers;G. Ahlers;D. S. Cannell;D. S. Cannell
Eric Brown;Alexei Nikolaenko;Guenter Ahlers
Joseph J. Niemela;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell
Eric Brown;Guenter Ahlers
Guenter Ahlers
John R. de Bruyn;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Stephen W. Morris;Steven P. Trainoff
Denis Funfschilling;Guenter Ahlers
Alexei Nikolaenko;Eric Brown;Denis Funfschilling;Guenter Ahlers
Guenter Ahlers;Eric Brown;Francisco Fontenele Araujo;Denis Funfschilling
Jin-Qiang Zhong;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Herman J. H. Clercx;Herman J. H. Clercx;Roberto Verzicco
Richard Heinrichs;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell
Guenter Ahlers;Xiaochao Xu
Guenter Ahlers;M. C. Cross;P. C. Hohenberg;S. Safran
Mingming Wu;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell
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