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World Ranking
1452
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Juan Lopez is a researcher affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with significant work concentrated in Computational Mechanics, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Lopez's research focuses on topics related to fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, solar and space plasma dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, geophysics and gravity measurements, and vibration and dynamic analysis.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Precessing cube: resonant excitation of modes and triadic resonance, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Reflections and focusing of inertial waves in a librating cube with the rotation axis oblique to its faces, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Impact of centrifugal buoyancy on strato-rotational instability, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Effects of Microorganisms on Drop Formation in Microgravity During a Parabolic Flight with Residual Gravity and Jitter, 2022, Microgravity Science and Technology
  • Simulated microgravity in the ring-sheared drop, 2020, npj Microgravity

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Lopez include:

  • Bruno D. Welfert
  • Amir Hirsa
  • Ke Wu
  • Jason Yalim
  • Patrick McMackin

Their research is often published in journals such as:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Fluids
  • Physics of Fluids
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Juan Lopez was awarded the ACM Senior Member recognition in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Axisymmetric vortex breakdown Part 2. Physical mechanisms

    G. L. Brown;J. M. Lopez

  • AXISYMMETRIC VORTEX BREAKDOWN, PART 1. CONFINED SWIRLING FLOW

    J. M. Lopez

  • Universal fluctuations in correlated systems

    S. T. Bramwell;K. Christensen;J.-Y. Fortin;P. C. W. Holdsworth

  • Superroughening versus intrinsic anomalous scaling of surfaces

    Juan M. López;Miguel A. Rodríguez;Rodolfo Cuerno

  • Axisymmetric vortex breakdown. Part 3 Onset of periodic flow and chaotic advection

    J. M. Lopez;A. D. Perry

  • Nonequilibrium phase transitions in directed small-world networks

    Alejandro D. Sánchez;Juan M. López;Miguel A. Rodríguez

  • Anomalous scaling of fracture surfaces

    Juan M. López;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • On three-dimensional quasiperiodic Floquet instabilities of two-dimensional bluff body wakes

    Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Juan M Lopez

  • Scaling of local slopes, conservation laws, and anomalous roughening in surface growth.

    Juan M. López;Mario Castro;Rafael Gallego

  • On the bifurcation structure of axisymmetric vortex breakdown in a constricted pipe

    J. M. Lopez

  • An Efficient Spectral-Projection Method for the Navier–Stokes Equations in Cylindrical Geometries: I. Axisymmetric Cases

    J.M. Lopez;Jie Shen

  • Anomalous roughening of wood fractured surfaces

    Stéphane Morel;Jean Schmittbuhl;Juan M. López;Gérard Valentin

  • Numerical study of natural convection in a vertical porous annulus with discrete heating

    M. Sankar;Youngyong Park;Juan Lopez;Younghae Do

  • Symmetry breaking of two-dimensional time-periodic wakes

    Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Francisco Marques;Juan M Lopez

  • Power spectrum scaling in anomalous kinetic roughening of surfaces

    Juan M. López;Miguel A. Rodríguez;Rodolfo Cuerno

  • Spontaneous emergence of contrarian-like behaviour in an opinion spreading model

    Marta S. de la Lama;Juan M. Lopez;Horacio S. Wio

  • Spontaneous emergence of contrarian-like behaviour in an opinion spreading model

    M. S. de la Lama;M. S. de la Lama;J. M. López;H.S. Wio;H.S. Wio

  • Symmetry breaking of the flow in a cylinder driven by a rotating end wall

    H. M. Blackburn;Juan Lopez

  • An Efficient Spectral-Projection Method for the Navier-Stokes Equations in Cylindrical Geometries

    J.M. Lopez;F. Marques;Jie Shen

  • Crossflow instability of finite Bödewadt flows: Transients and spiral waves

    Juan M. Lopez;Francisco Marques;Antonio M. Rubio;Marc Avila

  • Symmetry breaking in free-surface cylinder flows

    Juan Lopez;F. Marques;A. H. Hirsa;R. Miraghaie

  • Precessing vortex breakdown mode in an enclosed cylinder flow

    F. Marques;Juan Lopez

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Maurice Blackburn
Hugh Maurice Blackburn Monash University
Ke Wu
Ke Wu Polytechnique Montréal
Jie Shen
Jie Shen Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
Brian J. Cantwell
Brian J. Cantwell Stanford University
Alexander Smits
Alexander Smits Princeton University
Richard M. Lueptow
Richard M. Lueptow Northwestern University
William S. Saric
William S. Saric Texas A&M University
José J. Ramasco
José J. Ramasco Spanish National Research Council
Ctirad Uher
Ctirad Uher University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Emmanouil Kioupakis
Emmanouil Kioupakis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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