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D-Index
55
Citations
12619
World Ranking
2963
National Ranking
92

Rainer Helmig 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 Rainer Helmig sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 309 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rainer Helmig 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 Rainer Helmig sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Rainer Helmig is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany and has contributed extensively to engineering and environmental science research. Their work spans several subfields including computational mechanics, environmental engineering, ocean engineering, computational theory and mathematics, as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of areas such as:

  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics

Rainer Helmig's publication record includes numerous papers, with selected recent publications as follows:

  • Water Table Depth and Soil Salinization: From Pore-Scale Processes to Field-Scale Responses, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Prediction of soil evaporation measured with weighable lysimeters using the FAO Penman-Monteith method in combination with Richards' equation, 2021, Vadose Zone Journal
  • Influence of Radiation on Evaporation Rates: A Numerical Analysis, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Impact of groundwater flow on methane gas migration and retention in unconsolidated aquifers, 2020, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • Modeling tissue perfusion in terms of 1d-3d embedded mixed-dimension coupled problems with distributed sources, 2020, Journal of Computational Physics

Their collaborative network involves frequent co-authorship with:

  • Martin Schneider (21 publications)
  • Edward Coltman (13 publications)
  • Bernd Flemisch (12 publications)
  • Carina Bringedal (12 publications)
  • Kilian Weishaupt (11 publications)

Rainer Helmig's work is published widely in outlets such as:

  • Transport in Porous Media (16 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (13 publications)
  • Water Resources Research (10 publications)
  • Journal of Computational Physics (5 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)

Their contributions include authorship of books published by Springer International Publishing, including "Dimension Reduced Modeling of Blood Flow in Large Arteries" in 2023.

In recognition of their research career, Rainer Helmig was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Multiphase Flow and Transport Processes in the Subsurface: A Contribution to the Modeling of Hydrosystems

    Rainer Helmig

  • Multiphase Flow and Transport Processes in the Subsurface

    Rainer Helmig

  • A benchmark study on problems related to CO2 storage in geologic formations

    Holger Class;Anozie Ebigbo;Rainer Helmig;Helge K. Dahle

  • DuMux: DUNE for multi-{phase,component,scale,physics,…} flow and transport in porous media

    B. Flemisch;M. Darcis;K. Erbertseder;B. Faigle

  • A mixed-dimensional finite volume method for two-phase flow in fractured porous media

    Volker Reichenberger;Volker Reichenberger;Hartmut Jakobs;Hartmut Jakobs;Peter Bastian;Peter Bastian;Rainer Helmig;Rainer Helmig

  • Numerical simulation of non-isothermal multiphase multicomponent processes in porous media.: 1. An efficient solution technique

    H. Class;R. Helmig;P. Bastian

  • Flow and Transport in Fractured Porous Media

    Peter Dietrich;Rainer Helmig;Martin Sauter;Heinz Hötzl

  • Numerical simulation of biodegradation controlled by transverse mixing

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Emil O. Frind;Rainer Helmig

  • A coupling concept for two-phase compositional porous-medium and single-phase compositional free flow

    K. Mosthaf;K. Baber;B. Flemisch;R. Helmig

  • Investigations on CO2 storage capacity in saline aquifers: Part 1. Dimensional analysis of flow processes and reservoir characteristics

    A. Kopp;H. Class;R. Helmig

  • Black-Oil Simulations for Three-Component, Three-Phase Flow in Fractured Porous Media

    Sebastian Geiger;Stephan Matthäi;Jennifer Niessner;Rainer Helmig

  • CO2 leakage through an abandoned well: problem-oriented benchmarks

    Anozie Ebigbo;Holger Class;Rainer Helmig

  • Darcy-scale modeling of microbially induced carbonate mineral precipitation in sand columns

    Anozie Ebigbo;Adrienne J. Phillips;Robin Gerlach;Rainer Helmig

  • Hydraulic fracturing in unconventional gas reservoirs: risks in the geological system, part 2

    Alexander Kissinger;Rainer Helmig;Anozie Ebigbo;Holger Class

  • Efficient fully-coupled solution techniques for two-phase flow in porous media: Parallel multigrid solution and large scale computations

    Peter Bastian;Rainer Helmig

  • Node-centered finite volume discretizations for the numerical simulation of multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media

    Ralf Huber;Rainer Helmig

  • Black-Oil Simulations for Three-Component -- Three-Phase Flow in Fractured Porous Media

    Sebastian Geiger-Boschung;Stephan Konrad Matthai;Jennifer Niessner;Rainer Helmig

  • Investigations on CO2 storage capacity in saline aquifers—Part 2: Estimation of storage capacity coefficients

    A. Kopp;H. Class;R. Helmig

  • Multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media: A classical finite element method versus an implicit pressure–explicit saturation‐based mixed finite element–finite volume approach

    R. Huber;R. Helmig

  • A concept for data-driven uncertainty quantification and its application to carbon dioxide storage in geological formations

    S. Oladyshkin;H. Class;R. Helmig;W. Nowak

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Wohlmuth
Barbara Wohlmuth Technical University of Munich
Martin Sauter
Martin Sauter University of Göttingen
Wolfgang Nowak
Wolfgang Nowak University of Stuttgart
Alfred B. Cunningham
Alfred B. Cunningham Montana State University
Olaf A. Cirpka
Olaf A. Cirpka University of Tübingen
Bernhard Weigand
Bernhard Weigand University of Stuttgart
S. Majid Hassanizadeh
S. Majid Hassanizadeh Utrecht University
Michael A. Celia
Michael A. Celia Princeton University
Ioan Pop
Ioan Pop Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Peter Lehmann
Peter Lehmann ETH Zurich

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