2026 Richard J. A. M. Stevens: 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	54	3282	3142	74	70	202	8446

Overview

Richard J. A. M. Stevens is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a substantial focus in the subfields of Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research topics include:

Wind and Air Flow Studies
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Wind Energy Research and Development
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer

Richard J. A. M. Stevens has contributed to numerous scientific publications, frequently appearing in the following venues:

Journal of Fluid Mechanics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Physics Conference Series
Renewable Energy
Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stevens include:

Coherence of temperature and velocity superstructures in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard flow, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
From Rayleigh-Bénard convection to porous-media convection: how porosity affects heat transfer and flow structure, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Modeling dynamic wind direction changes in large eddy simulations of wind farms, 2021, Renewable Energy
Aspect Ratio Dependence of Heat Transfer in a Cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard Cell, 2022, Physical Review Letters
Distinct Turbulent Regions in the Wake of a Wind Turbine and Their Inflow-Dependent Locations: The Creation of a Wake Map, 2020, Energies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stevens include:

Roberto Verzicco
Detlef Lohse
Luoqin Liu
Srinidhi N. Gadde
R.A. Hartmann

Best Publications

Flow Structure and Turbulence in Wind Farms

Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Charles Meneveau

507
Citations
Radial boundary layer structure and Nusselt number in Rayleigh–Bénard convection

Richard J.A.M. Stevens;Roberto Verzicco;Detlef Lohse

303
Citations
Comparison of wind farm large eddy simulations using actuator disk and actuator line models with wind tunnel experiments

Richard J.A.M. Stevens;Luis A. Martínez-Tossas;Charles Meneveau

283
Citations
Boundary layer structure in turbulent thermal convection and its consequences for the required numerical resolution

Olga Shishkina;Richard J A M Stevens;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

274
Citations
A concurrent precursor inflow method for Large Eddy Simulations and applications to finite length wind farms

Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Jason Graham;Charles Meneveau

258
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The unifying theory of scaling in thermal convection: the updated prefactors

Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Erwin van der Poel;S. Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

252
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Flow reversals in thermally driven turbulence.

K. Sugiyama;K. Sugiyama;Rui Ni;Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Tak Shing Chan;Tak Shing Chan

243
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Prandtl and Rayleigh number dependence of heat transport in high Rayleigh number thermal convection

Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Detlef Lohse;Roberto Verzicco

205
Citations
Comparison between two and three dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Erwin van der Poel;Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Detlef Lohse

186
Citations
Prandtl-, Rayleigh-, and Rossby-number dependence of heat transport in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Jin-Qiang Zhong;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Herman J. H. Clercx;Herman J. H. Clercx;Roberto Verzicco

179
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Transition to the Ultimate Regime in Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Xiaojue Zhu;Varghese Mathai;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Roberto Verzicco;Roberto Verzicco

163
Citations
Effects of turbine spacing on the power output of extended wind-farms

Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Dennice F. Gayme;Charles Meneveau

152
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Turbulent thermal superstructures in Rayleigh-B'enard convection

Richard J.A.M. Stevens;Alexander Blass;Xiaojue Zhu;Roberto Verzicco

151
Citations
Optimal Taylor-Couette flow: direct numerical simulations

Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Siegfried Grossmann;Roberto Verzicco

144
Citations
Large eddy simulation studies of the effects of alignment and wind farm length

Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Dennice F. Gayme;Charles Meneveau

143
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Comparison between two and three dimensional Rayleigh-B'enard convection

Erwin P. van der Poel;Richard J.A.M. Stevens;Detlef Lohse

138
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Large-eddy simulation study of the logarithmic law for second- and higher-order moments in turbulent wall-bounded flow

Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Michael Wilczek;Charles Meneveau

134
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Turbulent thermal superstructures in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Alexander Blass;Xiaojue Zhu;Roberto Verzicco;Roberto Verzicco

134
Citations
Transitions between turbulent states in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

Richard Johannes Antonius Maria Stevens;Jin-Qiang Zhong;H.J.H. Clercx;H.J.H. Clercx;Günter Ahlers

129
Citations
Optimal Taylor–Couette flow: direct numerical simulations

Rodolfo Ostilla;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Siegfried Grossmann;Roberto Verzicco

129
Citations
Logarithmic Temperature Profiles in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection

Guenter Ahlers;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Denis Funfschilling;Siegfried Grossmann

124
Citations
Roughness-Facilitated Local 1/2 Scaling Does Not Imply the Onset of the Ultimate Regime of Thermal Convection.

Xiaojue Zhu;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Roberto Verzicco;Roberto Verzicco;Detlef Lohse;Detlef Lohse

108
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Comparison between two- and three-dimensional RayleighBØnard convection

Erwin P. van der Poel;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Detlef Lohse

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