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Knut Jørgen Måløy

Knut Jørgen Måløy

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
41
Citations
7169
World Ranking
6932
National Ranking
37

Knut Jørgen Måløy publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Knut Jørgen Måløy sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 214 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Knut Jørgen Måløy D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Knut Jørgen Måløy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Knut Jørgen Måløy is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and conducts research primarily within the field of Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Måløy reflect a focus on fluid dynamics in porous media and related physical processes. These include:

  • "Intermittent Dynamics of Slow Drainage Experiments in Porous Media: Characterization Under Different Boundary Conditions," 2020, Frontiers in Physics
  • "Gravitational and Finite-Size Effects On Pressure Saturation Curves During Drainage," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Dissolution Phase Diagram in Radial Geometry," 2020, Frontiers in Physics
  • "Burst Dynamics, Upscaling and Dissipation of Slow Drainage in Porous Media," 2021, Frontiers in Physics
  • "Frictional fluid instabilities shaped by viscous forces," 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Måløy include:

  • Renaud Toussaint
  • Marcel Moura
  • Eirik G. Flekkøy
  • Per Arne Rikvold
  • Tom Vincent-Dospital

The primary publication venues for Måløy's work feature a mix of physics and engineering journals, as listed below:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Physics
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Advances in Water Resources

Best Publications

  • Viscous fingering fractals in porous media.

    Knut Jørgen Måløy;Jens Feder;Torstein Jøssang

  • Experimental measurements of the roughness of brittle cracks.

    Knut Jørgen Måløy;Alex Hansen;Einar L. Hinrichsen;Stéphane Roux

  • A Two-Dimensional Network Simulator for Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media

    Eyvind Aker;Eyvind Aker;Knut JØrgen MÅlØy;Alex Hansen;G.George Batrouni

  • Interfacial crack pinning: Effect of nonlocal interactions.

    Jean Schmittbuhl;Stéphane Roux;Jean-Pierre Vilotte;Knut Jorgen Måløy

  • Local waiting time fluctuations along a randomly pinned crack front.

    Knut Jørgen Måløy;Stéphane Santucci;Jean Schmittbuhl;Renaud Toussaint

  • Direct Observation of a Self-Affine Crack Propagation

    Jean Schmittbuhl;Knut Jørgen Måløy

  • Interface scaling in a two-dimensional porous medium under combined viscous, gravity, and capillary effects

    Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Grunde Løvoll;Grunde Løvoll;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • Competition of gravity, capillary and viscous forces during drainage in a two-dimensional porous medium, a pore scale study

    Grunde Løvoll;Grunde Løvoll;Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Eyvind Aker;Eyvind Aker;Eyvind Aker

  • Patterns and flow in frictional fluid dynamics.

    Bjornar Sandnes;E. G Flekkøy;H. A Knudsen;K. J Måløy

  • Steady-State Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media: Statistics and Transport Properties

    Ken Tore Tallakstad;Henning Arendt Knudsen;Thomas Ramstad;Grunde Løvoll

  • Force measurements on static granular materials.

    Grunde Løvoll;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Eirik G. Flekkøy

  • Dynamics of slow drainage in porous media

    Knut Jorgen Måloy;Liv Furuberg;Jens Feder;Torstein Jossang

  • Growth activity during fingering in a porous Hele-Shaw cell.

    Grunde Løvoll;Grunde Løvoll;Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Renaud Toussaint;Renaud Toussaint;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • High resolution description of a crack front in a heterogeneous Plexiglas block.

    Arnaud Delaplace;Jean Schmittbuhl;Knut Jørgen Måløy

  • Why hour glasses tick

    X.-L. Wu;K. J. Måløy;A. Hansen;M. Ammi

  • Steady-state, simultaneous two-phase flow in porous media: an experimental study.

    Ken Tore Tallakstad;Grunde Løvoll;Henning Arendt Knudsen;Thomas Ramstad

  • Intermittent behavior in slow drainage.

    Liv Furuberg;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Jens Feder

  • Statistics of fracture surfaces.

    Stéphane Santucci;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Arnaud Delaplace;Joachim Mathiesen

  • Roughness of two-dimensional cracks in wood.

    Thor Engøy;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Alex Hansen;Stéphane Roux

  • Pattern formation during air injection into granular materials confined in a circular Hele-Shaw cell.

    Øistein Johnsen;Renaud Toussaint;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Eirik Grude Flekkøy

  • Granular Rayleigh-Taylor instability: experiments and simulations.

    Jan Ludvig Vinningland;Øistein Johnsen;Eirik G. Flekkøy;Renaud Toussaint

  • Grains and gas flow: molecular dynamics with hydrodynamic interactions

    Sean McNamara;Eirik G. Flekkøy;Knut Jørgen Måløy

  • Labyrinth patterns in confined granular-fluid systems.

    B. Sandnes;H. A. Knudsen;K. J. Måløy;E. G. Flekkøy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Schmittbuhl
Jean Schmittbuhl University of Strasbourg
Alex Hansen
Alex Hansen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Stéphane Roux
Stéphane Roux École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Jean-Paul Ampuero
Jean-Paul Ampuero Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Martin J. Strauss
Martin J. Strauss University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Amnon Aharony
Amnon Aharony Tel Aviv University
Luis Rivera
Luis Rivera University of Strasbourg
Einat Aharonov
Einat Aharonov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ole Torsæter
Ole Torsæter Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Gilles Peltzer
Gilles Peltzer University of California, Los Angeles

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