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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Netherlands
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
65
Citations
20200
World Ranking
505
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Jerry Westerweel is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Computational Mechanics. Additional subfields of study include Biomedical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work is centered on topics related to Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, including Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, Combustion and Flame Dynamics, Heat Transfer Mechanisms, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, and Fluid Dynamics and Mixing.

Jerry Westerweel has contributed numerous publications to a range of scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Experiments in Fluids
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physics of Fluids

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jerry Westerweel include:

  • Internal shear layers and edges of uniform momentum zones in a turbulent pipe flow, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Scanning stereo-PLIF method for free surface measurements in large 3D domains, 2020, Experiments in Fluids
  • Combined three-dimensional flow field measurements and motion tracking of freely moving spheres in a turbulent boundary layer, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Using Faraday Waves to Measure Interfacial Tension, 2020, Langmuir
  • µPIV measurement of the 3D velocity distribution of Taylor droplets moving in a square horizontal channel, 2020, Experiments in Fluids

The scientist regularly collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Willem van de Water
  • Gerrit E. Elsinga
  • Christian Poelma
  • Jesse Reijtenbagh
  • M.J. Tummers

Jerry Westerweel's research contributions emphasize experimental and computational techniques in fluid dynamics, with particular attention to turbulent flows, particle behavior in flow systems, and measurement methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Fundamentals of digital particle image velocimetry

    J Westerweel

  • Universal outlier detection for PIV data

    Jerry Westerweel;Fulvio Scarano

  • Fully developed turbulent pipe flow: a comparison between direct numerical simulation and experiment

    J. G. M. Eggels;F. Unger;M. H. Weiss;J. Westerweel

  • The effect of a discrete window offset on the accuracy of cross-correlation analysis of digital PIV recordings

    J. Westerweel;D. Dabiri;M. Gharib

  • Digital particle image velocimetry: theory and application

    J. Westerweel

  • Efficient detection of spurious vectors in particle image velocimetry data

    J. Westerweel

  • Turbulence transition in pipe flow

    Bruno Eckhardt;Tobias M. Schneider;Bjorn Hof;Jerry Westerweel

  • Particle Image Velocimetry for Complex and Turbulent Flows

    Jerry Westerweel;Gerrit E. Elsinga;Ronald J. Adrian

  • Experimental Observation of Nonlinear Traveling Waves in Turbulent Pipe Flow

    Björn Hof;Casimir W. H. van Doorne;Jerry Westerweel;Frans T. M. Nieuwstadt

  • Theoretical analysis of the measurement precision in particle image velocimetry

    J. Westerweel

  • Micro-Particle Image Velocimetry (microPIV): recent developments, applications, and guidelines.

    Ralph Lindken;Massimiliano Rossi;Sebastian Grosse;Jerry Westerweel

  • Finite lifetime of turbulence in shear flows

    Björn Hof;Jerry Westerweel;Tobias M. Schneider;Bruno Eckhardt

  • Interfacial Layers Between Regions of Different Turbulence Intensity

    Carlos B. da Silva;Julian C. R. Hunt;Ian Eames;Jerry Westerweel

  • Momentum and scalar transport at the turbulent/non-turbulent interface of a jet

    J. Westerweel;C. Fukushima;Jakob Martin Pedersen;J. C. R. Hunt

  • Main results of the third international PIV Challenge

    M. Stanislas;K. Okamoto;C. J. Kähler;J. Westerweel

  • Main results of the Second International PIV Challenge

    M. Stanislas;K. Okamoto;C. J. Kähler;J. Westerweel

  • Mechanics of the turbulent-nonturbulent interface of a jet.

    J. Westerweel;C. Fukushima;J.M. Pedersen;J.C.R. Hunt

  • Measurement of laminar, transitional and turbulent pipe flow using Stereoscopic-PIV

    C. W. H. van Doorne;J. Westerweel

  • In vivo micro particle image velocimetry measurements of blood-plasma in the embryonic avian heart.

    Peter Vennemann;Kenneth T. Kiger;Ralph Lindken;Bianca C.W. Groenendijk

  • On velocity gradients in PIV interrogation

    J. Westerweel

Frequent Co-Authors

Fulvio Scarano
Fulvio Scarano Delft University of Technology
Bendiks Jan Boersma
Bendiks Jan Boersma Delft University of Technology
Andreas Schröder
Andreas Schröder German Aerospace Center
Ronald J. Adrian
Ronald J. Adrian Arizona State University
Robert E. Poelmann
Robert E. Poelmann Leiden University
Bruno Eckhardt
Bruno Eckhardt Philipp University of Marburg
NG Niels Deen
NG Niels Deen Eindhoven University of Technology
Daniel Bonn
Daniel Bonn University of Amsterdam
Patrick Onck
Patrick Onck University of Groningen
Jürgen Rühe
Jürgen Rühe University of Freiburg

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