2026 Robert Behringer: 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	66	1369	1299	451	404	542	28087

Research.com Recognitions

1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1993 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the discovery of chaos near onset for large aspect ratio RayleighBernard convection, and the discovery of propagating waves in simple granular flows and for the development of noninvasive techniques for imaging convection in porous media
1981 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Robert Behringer is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. The work integrates aspects of Computational Mechanics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including granular flow and fluidized beds, landslides and related hazards, high-velocity impact and material behavior, lattice Boltzmann simulation studies, theoretical and computational physics, as well as spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies.

Behringer has co-authored papers with several researchers such as Cacey Stevens Bester, Noah Cox, Hu Zheng, Joshua A. Dijksman, and Shomeek Mukhopadhyay.

Their frequent publication venues include:

Granular Matter
Physical Review E

Two recent papers illustrate the breadth of Behringer's work:

"Dynamics of oblique impact in a quasi two-dimensional granular medium," published in 2020 in Granular Matter
"Erratum: Obtaining self-similar scalings in focusing flows [Phys. Rev. E 92, 043016 (2015)]," published in 2020 in Physical Review E

Behringer's contributions have been recognized with several fellowships, including Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 1999 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1981. They were also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1993, with a citation noting discoveries related to chaos near onset for large aspect ratio Rayleigh-Bénard convection, propagating waves in simple granular flows, and development of noninvasive imaging techniques for convection in porous media.

Best Publications

Recent advances in augmented reality

R. Azuma;Y. Baillot;R. Behringer;S. Feiner

5624
Citations
Granular solids, liquids, and gases

Heinrich M. Jaeger;Sidney R. Nagel;Robert P. Behringer

3911
Citations
Contact force measurements and stress-induced anisotropy in granular materials.

T. S. Majmudar;R. P. Behringer

1477
Citations
The Physics of Granular Materials

Heinrich M. Jaeger;Sidney R. Nagel;Robert P. Behringer

795
Citations
Jamming by shear

Dapeng Bi;Jie Zhang;Jie Zhang;Jie Zhang;Bulbul Chakraborty;R. P. Behringer

792
Citations
Sands, Powders, and Grains: An Introduction to the Physics of Granular Materials

Robert P. Behringer

730
Citations
Stress Fluctuations in a 2D Granular Couette Experiment: A Continuous Transition

Daniel Howell;R. P. Behringer;Christian Veje

704
Citations
Jamming Transition in Granular Systems

T.S. Majmudar;M. Sperl;Stefan Luding;R.P. Behringer

602
Citations
Stress Fluctuations for Continuously Sheared Granular Materials

Brian Miller;Corey O'Hern;R. P. Behringer

456
Citations
Memories in sand: experimental tests of construction history on stress distributions under sandpiles.

Loic Vanel;Daniel Howell;D. Clark;R. P. Behringer

420
Citations
The seeing passenger car 'VaMoRs-P'

E.D. Dickmanns;R. Behringer;D. Dickmanns;T. Hildebrandt

387
Citations
Footprints in sand: the response of a granular material to local perturbations.

Junfei Geng;D. Howell;E. Longhi;R. P. Behringer

362
Citations
Pattern formation in flowing sand

GW Baxter;RP Behringer;T Fagert;GA Johnson

334
Citations
Evolution of Turbulence from the Rayleigh-Bénard Instability

Guenter Ahlers;R. P. Behringer

315
Citations
Effects of ambient gases on granular materials under vertical vibration.

H. K. Pak;E. Van Doorn;R. P. Behringer

303
Citations
The physics of jamming for granular materials: a review

Robert P Behringer;Bulbul Chakraborty

283
Citations
Surface waves in vertically vibrated granular materials.

H. K. Pak;R. P. Behringer

272
Citations
Logarithmic rate dependence of force networks in sheared granular materials

R. R. Hartley;R. P. Behringer

247
Citations
Self-diffusion in dense granular shear flows.

Brian Utter;R. P. Behringer

232
Citations
Kinematics of a two-dimensional granular Couette experiment at the transition to shearing

C. T. Veje;Daniel W. Howell;R. P. Behringer

218
Citations
Green’s function measurements of force transmission in 2D granular materials

Junfei Geng;G. Reydellet;E. Clément;R.P. Behringer

201
Citations
Particle Scale Dynamics in Granular Impact

Abram H. Clark;Lou Kondic;Robert P. Behringer

199
Citations
Rayleigh-Bénard convection and turbulence in liquid helium

R. P. Behringer

191
Citations
Self-Driving Cars

Mike Daily;Swarup Medasani;Reinhold Behringer;Mohan Trivedi

191
Citations
Dynamic visual registration of a 3-d object with a graphical model

Venkataraman Sundareswaran;Reinhold Werner Behringer

188
Citations
Cellular automata models of granular flow.

Baxter Gw;Behringer Rp

168
Citations