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51
Citations
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World Ranking
1118
National Ranking
23

John Christos Vassilicos publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Christos Vassilicos sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 261 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

John Christos Vassilicos D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Christos Vassilicos sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his contributions to advance the understanding turbulence decay, mixing and particle motions, especially by recognizing and exploiting the use of fractals in theory and experiment

Overview

John Christos Vassilicos is affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research in France. Their research primarily focuses on fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, with extensive work in environmental science and various specialized subfields within engineering.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their subfields of study encompass:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science

Key research topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows

Frequent co-authors in their work include Christophe Cuvier, Martín Obligado, Jean-Marc Foucaut, Jean-Philippe Laval, and Pierre Bragança.

Their work has been published mainly in:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Journal of Turbulence

Notable recent publications include:

  • Length scales in turbulent free shear flows (2020), Journal of Turbulence
  • A turbulence dissipation inhomogeneity scaling in the wake of two side-by-side square prisms (2021), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Scalings of scale-by-scale turbulence energy in non-homogeneous turbulence (2022), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Non-equilibrium Scaling of the Turbulent-Nonturbulent Interface Speed in Planar Jets (2020), Physical Review Letters
  • The production of uncertainty in three-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence (2023), Journal of Fluid Mechanics

John Christos Vassilicos was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010. The citation for this award highlighted contributions to the understanding of turbulence decay, mixing, and particle motions, particularly through the application of fractal concepts in both theoretical and experimental contexts.

Best Publications

  • Scalings and decay of fractal-generated turbulence

    D. Hurst;J. C. Vassilicos

  • Dissipation in Turbulent Flows

    J. Christos Vassilicos

  • Dissipation and decay of fractal-generated turbulence

    R. E. Seoud;J. C. Vassilicos

  • Droplet growth in warm turbulent clouds

    B. J. Devenish;P. Bartello;J.-L. Brenguier;L. R. Collins

  • Turbulence without Richardson-Kolmogorov Cascade

    N. Mazellier;J. C. Vassilicos

  • The decay of turbulence generated by a class of multiscale grids

    P. C. Valente;J. C. Vassilicos

  • Two-particle dispersion in turbulentlike flows

    Jimmy Chi Hung Fung;John Christos Vassilicos

  • Kelvin waves cascade in superfluid turbulence.

    D. Kivotides;J. C. Vassilicos;D. C. Samuels;C. F. Barenghi

  • Turbulent clustering of stagnation points and inertial particles

    L. Chen;S. Goto;J. C. Vassilicos

  • Fractal dimensions and spectra of interfaces with application to turbulence

    J. C. Vassilicos;Julian Charles Roland Hunt

  • Sweep-stick mechanism of heavy particle clustering in fluid turbulence.

    Susumu Goto;J. C. Vassilicos

  • Particle image velocimetry study of fractal-generated turbulence

    R. Gomes-Fernandes;B. Ganapathisubramani;J. C. Vassilicos

  • A unified sweep-stick mechanism to explain particle clustering in two- and three-dimensional homogeneous, isotropic turbulence

    S. W. Coleman;J. C. Vassilicos

  • A numerical strategy to combine high-order schemes, complex geometry and parallel computing for high resolution DNS of fractal generated turbulence

    S. Laizet;S. Laizet;E. Lamballais;J.C. Vassilicos

  • Universal dissipation scaling for nonequilibrium turbulence.

    P. C. Valente;J. C. Vassilicos

  • Self-similar clustering of inertial particles and zero-acceleration points in fully developed two-dimensional turbulence

    Susumu Goto;J. C. Vassilicos

  • A Lagrangian model for turbulent dispersion with turbulent-like flow structure: Comparison with direct numerical simulation for two-particle statistics

    Nadeem A. Malik;J. C. Vassilicos

  • DNS of Fractal-Generated Turbulence

    Sylvain Laizet;John Christos Vassilicos

  • Numerical dissipation vs. subgrid-scale modelling for large eddy simulation

    Thibault Dairay;Eric Lamballais;Sylvain Laizet;John Christos Vassilicos

  • Axisymmetric turbulent wakes with new nonequilibrium similarity scalings

    J. Nedić;J. C. Vassilicos;B. Ganapathisubramani

  • Kolmogorov's contributions to the physical and geometrical understanding of small-scale turbulence and recent developments

    Julian Charles Roland Hunt;J. C. Vassilicos

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvain Laizet
Sylvain Laizet Imperial College London
George Papadakis
George Papadakis Agricultural University of Athens
Geoffrey F. Hewitt
Geoffrey F. Hewitt Imperial College London
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani University of Southampton
Jimmy Chi Hung Fung
Jimmy Chi Hung Fung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yannis Hardalupas
Yannis Hardalupas Imperial College London
Joanna D. Haigh
Joanna D. Haigh Imperial College London
Alexander Bismarck
Alexander Bismarck University of Vienna
Eric C. Kerrigan
Eric C. Kerrigan Imperial College London
David C. Samuels
David C. Samuels Vanderbilt University

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