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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Spain
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
58
Citations
11429
World Ranking
771
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Spain Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 1993 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Manuel G. Velarde is affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on various subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics:

  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
  • Random lasers and scattering media
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Velarde has published research in several leading scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
  • Chaos Solitons & Fractals
  • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • The European Physical Journal Special Topics

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Velarde demonstrate a focus on complex physical phenomena and applied physics. Notable recent publications are:

  • "Supersonic voidions in 2D Morse lattice," 2020, Chaos Solitons & Fractals
  • "Evaporation of Sessile Droplets of Polyelectrolyte/Surfactant Mixtures on Silicon Wafers," 2021, Colloids and Interfaces
  • "Hydraulically Controlled Bottom Flow in the Orkney Passage," 2022, Water
  • "About electron transfer over long distances with tunable sub/supersonic velocities," 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "A few salient features of dissipative solitons in crystal-like lattices of active units," 2021, Chaos Solitons & Fractals

Velarde has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • A. P. Chetverikov
  • Karl Heinz Hoffmann
  • Efstathios Michaelides
  • Worth Rubi
  • Bjarne Andresen

Throughout their career, the scientist has been recognized by prestigious organizations. They became a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2014 and have been a Member of Academia Europaea since 1993.

Best Publications

  • Convective instability: A physicist's approach

    Christiane Normand;Yves Pomeau;Manuel G. Velarde

  • Falling Liquid Films

    Serafim Kalliadasis;Christian Ruyer-Quil;Benoît Scheid;Manuel G. Velarde

  • Momentum transport at a fluid–porous interface

    B. Goyeau;B. Goyeau;D. Lhuillier;D. Gobin;M.G. Velarde

  • Nonlinear dynamics of surface-tension-driven instabilities

    Pierre Colinet;Jean Claude Legros;Manuel G. Velarde

  • Interfacial Phenomena and Convection

    Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy;Manuel G. Velarde;Pierre Colinet

  • Wetting and spreading dynamics

    V. M Starov;Manuel García Velarde;Clayton John Radke

  • Nonlinear Dynamics of Surface-Tension-Driven Instabilities: COLINET:NONLINEAR DYNAMIC O-BK

    Pierre Colinet;Jean Claude Legros;Manuel G. Velarde

  • Dewetting: film rupture by nucleation in the spinodal regime.

    Uwe Thiele;Manuel G. Velarde;Kai Neuffer

  • On weakly nonlinear modulation of waves on deep water

    Karsten Trulsen;Igor Kliakhandler;Kristian B. Dysthe;Manuel G. Velarde

  • Dissipative solitons

    C. I. Christov;M. G. Velarde

  • Spreading of liquid drops over dry porous layers: complete wetting case.

    V.M. Starov;S.R. Kostvintsev;V.D. Sobolev;M.G. Velarde

  • MUTUAL SYNCHRONIZATION OF CHAOTIC SELF-OSCILLATORS WITH DISSIPATIVE COUPLING

    N. F. Rul'kov;A. R. Volkoskii;A. Rodríguez-Lozano;E. Del Río

  • Thermocapillary instability and wave formation on a film falling down a uniformly heated plane

    S. Kalliadasis;E. A. Demekhin;C. Ruyer-Quil;M. G. Velarde

  • Surface forces and wetting phenomena

    Victor Starov;M.G. Velarde

  • Well-posed Boussinesq paradigm with purely spatial higher-order derivatives

    C. I. Christov;G. A. Maugin;M. G. Velarde

  • Two-dimensional solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates with a disk-shaped trap

    Guoxiang Huang;Valeri A. Makarov;Manuel G. Velarde;Manuel G. Velarde

  • Synergetic phenomena in active lattices : patterns, waves, solitons, chaos

    Vladimir I. Nekorkin;Manuel García Velarde

  • Thermocapillary long waves in a liquid film flow. Part 1. Low-dimensional formulation

    C. Ruyer-Quil;B. Scheid;S. Kalliadasis;M. G. Velarde

  • Dissipative Korteweg–de Vries description of Marangoni–Bénard oscillatory convection

    Alfredo N. Garazo;Manuel G. Velarde

  • Simultaneous Spreading and Evaporation: Recent Developments

    Sergey Semenov;Anna Trybala;Ramon G. Rubio;Nina Kovalchuk

  • Surface Tension and Dynamic Contact Angle of Water in Thin Quartz Capillaries.

    V.D. Sobolev;N.V. Churaev;M.G. Velarde;Z.M. Zorin

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Ebeling
Werner Ebeling Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jean Claude Legros
Jean Claude Legros Université Libre de Bruxelles
Victor Starov
Victor Starov Loughborough University
Ramón G. Rubio
Ramón G. Rubio Complutense University of Madrid
Serafim Kalliadasis
Serafim Kalliadasis Imperial College London
Yves Pomeau
Yves Pomeau École Polytechnique
Sergey V. Dmitriev
Sergey V. Dmitriev Russian Academy of Sciences
Francisco Ortega
Francisco Ortega Complutense University of Madrid
Uwe Thiele
Uwe Thiele University of Münster
Paolo Arena
Paolo Arena University of Catania

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