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D-Index
40
Citations
6935
World Ranking
2014
National Ranking
58

Olivier Simonin 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 Olivier Simonin sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 295 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Olivier Simonin 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 Olivier Simonin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Olivier Simonin is affiliated with the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in France. Their research is primarily concentrated in the field of Engineering, with a focus on Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, Granular Flow and Fluidized Beds, Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies, Energetic Materials and Combustion, and Combustion and Detonation Processes.

Olivier Simonin has contributed to numerous publications, frequently publishing in several respected venues. These include:

  • Powder Technology
  • International Journal of Multiphase Flow
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Pascal Fede (15 publications)
  • Renaud Ansart (9 publications)
  • Enrica Masi (5 publications)
  • B. Bédat (5 publications)
  • Alain Estève (5 publications)

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Olivier Simonin include:

  • Massively parallel numerical simulation using up to 36,000 CPU cores of an industrial-scale polydispersed reactive pressurized fluidized bed with a mesh of one billion cells, 2020, Powder Technology
  • Three-dimensional DEM-CFD simulation of a lab-scale fluidized bed to support the development of two-fluid model approach, 2022, International Journal of Multiphase Flow
  • Comprehending the influence of the particle size and stoichiometry on Al/CuO thermite combustion in close bomb: A theoretical study, 2023, Propellants Explosives Pyrotechnics
  • Effect of electrostatic forces on the dispersion of like-charged solid particles transported by homogeneous isotropic turbulence, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Combustion model for thermite materials integrating explicit and coupled treatment of condensed and gas phase kinetics, 2022, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Best Publications

  • Direct numerical simulation of turbulence modulation by particles in isotropic turbulence

    Marc Boivin;Olivier Simonin;Kyle D. Squires

  • Partitioning of particle velocities in gas-solid turbulent flows into a continuous field and a spatially uncorrelated random distribution : theoretical formalism and numerical study

    Pierre Février;Olivier Simonin;Kyle D. Squires

  • Eulerian Prediction of the Fluid/Particle Correlated Motion in Turbulent Two-Phase Flows

    O. Simonin;E. Deutsch;J. P. Minier

  • A functional subgrid drift velocity model for filtered drag prediction in dense fluidized bed

    Jean-François Parmentier;Jean-François Parmentier;Olivier Simonin;Olivier Simonin;Olivier Delsart

  • On the prediction of gas–solid flows with two-way coupling using large eddy simulation

    Marc Boivin;Olivier Simonin;Kyle D. Squires

  • Development of filtered Euler–Euler two-phase model for circulating fluidised bed: High resolution simulation, formulation and a priori analyses

    Ali Özel;Ali Özel;Pascal Fede;Pascal Fede;Olivier Simonin;Olivier Simonin

  • Numerical study of the subgrid fluid turbulence effects on the statistics of heavy colliding particles

    Pascal Fede;Olivier Simonin

  • Two statistical models for predicting collision rates of inertial particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

    Leonid I. Zaichik;Olivier Simonin;Vladimir M. Alipchenkov

  • Fluid dynamic numerical simulation of a gas phase polymerization reactor

    Anne Gobin;Hervé Neau;Olivier Simonin;Jean-Richard Llinas

  • Continuum modelling of dispersed two-phase flows

    O. Simonin

  • Evaluation of numerical strategies for large eddy simulation of particulate two-phase recirculating flows

    E. Riber;V. Moureau;M. García;T. Poinsot

  • Large Eddy Simulation and Second-Moment Closure Model of Particle Fluctuating Motion in Two-Phase Turbulent Shear Flows

    O. Simonin;E. Deutsch;M. Boivin

  • On the spatial distribution of heavy-particle velocities in turbulent flow: from continuous field to particulate chaos

    Olivier Simonin;Pierre Février;Jérôme Laviéville

  • Numerical simulation of the fluid dynamics of a freely bubbling fluidized bed: influence of the air supply system

    Eric Peirano;V. Delloume;V. Delloume;Filip Johnsson;Bo G Leckner

  • Properties of the particle velocity field in gas-solid turbulent channel flow

    Marion W. Vance;Kyle D. Squires;Olivier Simonin

  • Comparison between Lagrangian and mesoscopic Eulerian modelling approaches for inertial particles suspended in decaying isotropic turbulence

    A. Kaufmann;M. Moreau;O. Simonin;J. Helie

  • DNS of the interaction between a deformable buoyant bubble and a spatially decaying turbulence: A priori tests for LES two-phase flow modelling

    A. Toutant;E. Labourasse;O. Lebaigue;O. Simonin

  • MinPos : a novel frontier allocation algorithm for multi-robot exploration

    Antoine Bautin;Olivier Simonin;François Charpillet

  • Sand-assisted fluidization of large cylindrical and spherical biomass particles: Experiments and simulation

    Farzam Fotovat;Renaud Ansart;Renaud Ansart;Mehrdji Hemati;Mehrdji Hemati;Olivier Simonin;Olivier Simonin

  • Hydrodynamic and solid residence time distribution in a circulating fluidized bed: Experimental and 3D computational study

    Régis Andreux;Geoffrey Petit;Mehrdji Hemati;Olivier Simonin

  • A Lagrangian VOF tensorial penalty method for the DNS of resolved particle-laden flows

    Stéphane Vincent;Jorge César Brändle de Motta;Arthur Sarthou;Jean-Luc Estivalezes

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyle D. Squires
Kyle D. Squires Arizona State University
Michel Quintard
Michel Quintard National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
Thierry Poinsot
Thierry Poinsot Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse
Martin R. Maxey
Martin R. Maxey Brown University
Gilles Flamant
Gilles Flamant Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jamal Chaouki
Jamal Chaouki Polytechnique Montréal
Filip Johnsson
Filip Johnsson Chalmers University of Technology
Rodney O. Fox
Rodney O. Fox Iowa State University
Bo G Leckner
Bo G Leckner Chalmers University of Technology
Jonathan Seville
Jonathan Seville University of Birmingham

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