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Robert Behringer

Robert Behringer

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
66
Citations
28087
World Ranking
1371
National Ranking
452

Robert Behringer 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 Robert Behringer sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 542 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert Behringer 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 Robert Behringer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% 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

  • 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

  • Granular solids, liquids, and gases

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

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

    T. S. Majmudar;R. P. Behringer

  • The Physics of Granular Materials

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

  • Jamming by shear

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

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

    Robert P. Behringer

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

    Daniel Howell;R. P. Behringer;Christian Veje

  • Jamming Transition in Granular Systems

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

  • Stress Fluctuations for Continuously Sheared Granular Materials

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

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

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

  • The seeing passenger car 'VaMoRs-P'

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

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

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

  • Pattern formation in flowing sand

    GW Baxter;RP Behringer;T Fagert;GA Johnson

  • Evolution of Turbulence from the Rayleigh-Bénard Instability

    Guenter Ahlers;R. P. Behringer

  • Effects of ambient gases on granular materials under vertical vibration.

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

  • The physics of jamming for granular materials: a review

    Robert P Behringer;Bulbul Chakraborty

  • Surface waves in vertically vibrated granular materials.

    H. K. Pak;R. P. Behringer

  • Logarithmic rate dependence of force networks in sheared granular materials

    R. R. Hartley;R. P. Behringer

  • Self-diffusion in dense granular shear flows.

    Brian Utter;R. P. Behringer

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

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

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

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

  • Particle Scale Dynamics in Granular Impact

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

  • Rayleigh-Bénard convection and turbulence in liquid helium

    R. P. Behringer

  • Self-Driving Cars

    Mike Daily;Swarup Medasani;Reinhold Behringer;Mohan Trivedi

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

    Venkataraman Sundareswaran;Reinhold Werner Behringer

  • Cellular automata models of granular flow.

    Baxter Gw;Behringer Rp

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Luding
Stefan Luding University of Twente
Konstantin Mischaikow
Konstantin Mischaikow Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andrea L. Bertozzi
Andrea L. Bertozzi University of California, Los Angeles
David J. Chen
David J. Chen The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sidney R. Nagel
Sidney R. Nagel University of Chicago
Guenter Ahlers
Guenter Ahlers University of California, Santa Barbara
Heinrich M. Jaeger
Heinrich M. Jaeger University of Chicago
Thorsten Pöschel
Thorsten Pöschel University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Peter K. Liaw
Peter K. Liaw University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Todd C. Hufnagel
Todd C. Hufnagel Johns Hopkins University

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