2026 Julio M. Ottino: 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	76	711	673	244	222	376	19957

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (APS)
2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1997 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For research on chaos theory, advancing knowledge of the fluid mechanics of mixing, granular material flow, and materials processing.
1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1993 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering experimental and theoretical contributions to the understanding of fluid mixing, and for exploiting and elucidating its relationship to chaos

Overview

Julio M. Ottino is a researcher affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on several subfields including Computational Mechanics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ocean Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The main topics addressed by Ottino include granular flow and fluidized beds, landslides and related hazards, particle dynamics in fluid flows, soil and unsaturated flow, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, lattice Boltzmann simulation studies, and soil finite element methods.

Ottino has published extensively in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Chemical Engineering Science
Physical Review E
Physical Review Research

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Ottino include:

"Rising and sinking intruders in dense granular flows," 2020, Physical Review Research
"Modelling segregation of bidisperse granular mixtures varying simultaneously in size and density for free surface flows," 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
"Drag force in granular shear flows: regimes, scaling laws and implications for segregation," 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
"Axisymmetric granular flow on a bounded conical heap: Kinematics and size segregation," 2020, Chemical Engineering Science
"Remarkable simplicity in the prediction of nonspherical particle segregation," 2020, Physical Review Research

Julio M. Ottino collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

Richard M. Lueptow
Paul B. Umbanhowar
Lü Jing
Yifei Duan
Dhairya R. Vyas

Ottino's work has been recognized through several awards and honors, such as:

Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (APS), 2008
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1997, for research on chaos theory, advancing knowledge of the fluid mechanics of mixing, granular material flow, and materials processing
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1996
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 1993, for contributions to understanding fluid mixing and its relationship to chaos

Best Publications

Mixing and Segregation of Granular Materials

J. M. Ottino;D. V. Khakhar

874
Citations
Mixing, chaotic advection, and turbulence

Julio M Ottino

785
Citations
Complex networks: Augmenting the framework for the study of complex systems

Luis A N Amaral;Julio M Ottino

662
Citations
Introduction: mixing in microfluidics.

Julio M. Ottino;Stephen Wiggins

557
Citations
Engineering complex systems.

Julio M Ottino

455
Citations
Foundations of chaotic mixing.

Stephen Wiggins;Julio M. Ottino

447
Citations
Satellite and subsatellite formation in capillary breakup

M. Tjahjadi;H. A. Stone;J. M. Ottino

411
Citations
Laminar mixing and chaotic mixing in several cavity flows

W.-L. Chien;H. Rising;J. M. Ottino

386
Citations
Avalanche mixing of granular solids

Berend Smit;Theo L. M. Maesen

329
Citations
A comparative computational and experimental study of chaotic mixing of viscous fluids

P. D. Swanson;J. M. Ottino

324
Citations
Experiments on mixing due to chaotic advection in a cavity

C. W. Leong;J. M. Ottino

314
Citations
Morphological structures produced by mixing in chaotic flows

J. M. Ottino;C. W. Leong;H. Rising;P. D. Swanson

311
Citations
Radial segregation of granular mixtures in rotating cylinders

D. V. Khakhar;J. J. McCarthy;J. M. Ottino

298
Citations
Transverse flow and mixing of granular materials in a rotating cylinder

D. V. Khakhar;D. V. Khakhar;J. J. McCarthy;Troy Shinbrot;J. M. Ottino

291
Citations
Modeling of transport of small molecules in polymer blends: Application of effective medium theory

J. Sax;J. M. Ottino

256
Citations
The Kinematics of Mixing

J. M. Ottino

237
Citations
Experiments on mixing in continuous chaotic flows

H. A. Kusch;J. M. Ottino

236
Citations
A case study of chaotic mixing in deterministic flows: The partitioned-pipe mixer

D.V. Khakhar;J.G. Franjione;J.M. Ottino

231
Citations
Monte Carlo calculations of cluster statistics in continuum models of composite morphology

E. M. Sevick;P. A. Monson;J. M. Ottino

228
Citations
Experimental and computational studies of mixing in complex Stokes flows: the vortex mixing flow and multicellular cavity flows

Sadhan C. Jana;Guy Metcalfe;J. M. Ottino

226
Citations
A lamellar model for analysis of liquid-liquid mixing

J.M. Ottino;William E. Ranz;Christopher W. Macosko

226
Citations
An experimental study of the flowing granular layer in a rotating tumbler

Nitin Jain;J. M. Ottino;R. M. Lueptow

223
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Lueptow Northwestern University

Paul B. Umbanhowar Northwestern University

Devang V. Khakhar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Stephen Wiggins University of Bristol

Troy Shinbrot Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Fernando J. Muzzio Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Sadhan C. Jana University of Akron

Randall Q. Snurr Northwestern University

Christopher W. Macosko University of Minnesota

Peter A. Monson University of Massachusetts Amherst

External Links

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