2026 John B. Bell: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	73	853	807	297	269	337	21188

Overview

John B. Bell is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of engineering, with a significant emphasis on computational mechanics.

The main fields of study in their work include:

Computational Mechanics
Applied Mathematics
Aerospace Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Throughout their career, John B. Bell has contributed significantly to topics such as:

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Combustion and flame dynamics
Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Theoretical and Computational Physics
Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity

They have published multiple research papers, some of the notable recent publications include:

Exascale applications: skin in the game, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
AMReX: Block-structured adaptive mesh refinement for multiphysics applications, 2021, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
PeleC: An adaptive mesh refinement solver for compressible reacting flows, 2022, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
CASTRO: A Massively Parallel Compressible Astrophysics Simulation Code, 2020, The Journal of Open Source Software
Modeling of a chain of three plasma accelerator stages with the WarpX electromagnetic PIC code on GPUs, 2021, Physics of Plasmas

John B. Bell frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors that include:

Ann Almgren
Weiqun Zhang
Alejandro L. Garcia
Andrew Nonaka
Andrew Myers

The venues where John B. Bell has frequently published are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Physical Review. E
Journal of Computational Physics

Best Publications

A second-order projection method for the incompressible navier-stokes equations

John B Bell;Phillip Colella;Harland M Glaz

1871
Citations
An Adaptive Level Set Approach for Incompressible Two-Phase Flows

Mark Sussman;Ann S Almgren;John B Bell;Phillip Colella

913
Citations
A Conservative Adaptive Projection Method for the Variable Density Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Ann S. Almgren;John B. Bell;Phillip Colella;Louis H. Howell

749
Citations
A High-Order Projection Method for Tracking Fluid Interfaces in Variable Density Incompressible Flows

Elbridge Gerry Puckett;Ann S. Almgren;John B. Bell;Daniel L. Marcus

721
Citations
Three-dimensional adaptive mesh refinement for hyperbolic conservation laws

John Bell;Marsha Berger;Jeff Saltzman;Mike Welcome

539
Citations
Multiphysics simulations: Challenges and opportunities

David E Keyes;Lois C Mcinnes;Carol Woodward;William Gropp

485
Citations
A Second-Order Projection Method for Variable- Density Flows*

John B Bell;Daniel L Marcus

478
Citations
AMReX: a framework for block-structured adaptive mesh refinement

Weiqun Zhang;Ann S. Almgren;Vincent E. Beckner;John B. Bell

458
Citations
Numerical simulation of laminar reacting flows with complex chemistry

Marcus S. Day;John B. Bell

425
Citations
An Adaptive Cartesian Grid Method for Unsteady Compressible Flow in Irregular Regions

Richard B. Pember;John B. Bell;Phillip Colella;William Y. Curtchfield

424
Citations
High-resolution simulation and characterization of density-driven flow in CO2 storage in saline aquifers

George S.H. Pau;John B. Bell;Karsten Pruess;Ann S. Almgren

399
Citations
Adaptive Mesh and Algorithm Refinement Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo

Alejandro L Garcia;John B Bell;William Y Crutchfield;Berni J Alder

353
Citations
CASTRO: A NEW COMPRESSIBLE ASTROPHYSICAL SOLVER. I. HYDRODYNAMICS AND SELF-GRAVITY

A. S. Almgren;V. E. Beckner;J. B. Bell;M. S. Day

343
Citations
A Numerical Method for the Incompressible Navier--Stokes Equations Based on an Approximate Projection

Ann S. Almgren;John B. Bell;William G. Szymczak

329
Citations
Nyx: A Massively Parallel AMR Code for Computational Cosmology

Ann S. Almgren;John B. Bell;Mike J. Lijewski;Zarija Lukić

303
Citations
Turbulence–flame interactions in lean premixed hydrogen: transition to the distributed burning regime

A. J. Aspden;M. S. Day;J. B. Bell

295
Citations
Higher order Godunov methods for general systems of hyperbolic conservation laws

J. B. Bell;P. Colella;J. A. Trangenstein

261
Citations
An unsplit, higher order Godunov method for scalar conservation laws in multiple dimensions

John B. Bell;Clint N. Dawson;Gregory R. Shubin

243
Citations
Mathematical structure of the black-oil model for petroleum reservoir simulation

John A. Trangenstein;John B. Bell

232
Citations
Dimension as a Key to the Neutrino Mechanism of Core-collapse Supernova Explosions

J. Nordhaus;A. Burrows;A. Almgren;J. Bell

225
Citations