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D-Index
41
Citations
5864
World Ranking
1944
National Ranking
731

Robert E. Ecke 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 Robert E. Ecke sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 212 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert E. Ecke 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 Robert E. Ecke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1994 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions to thermal convection, including universal transition to chaos in 3Hesuperfluid4He mixtures and traveling waves, vortices, and pattern dynamics in rotating convection

Overview

Robert E. Ecke is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in engineering, particularly focusing on fluid dynamics and turbulent flows. Their work encompasses both theoretical and experimental approaches within this domain.

The research topics covered by Robert E. Ecke include:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles

Their publications predominantly appear in fields related to computational mechanics and various interdisciplinary subfields. The main subfields of study associated with this scientist include:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Frequent publication venues where Robert E. Ecke has shared research include:

  • Physical Review Fluids
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Notable recent papers demonstrate contributions to understanding rotating turbulent convection and related fluid dynamics phenomena. These papers are:

  • "Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection," 2022, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Boundary Zonal Flow in Rotating Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Boundary zonal flows in rapidly rotating turbulent thermal convection," 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Thermal kinetics of free volume in porous spin-on dielectrics: Exploring the network- and pore-properties," 2020, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
  • "Wall modes and the transition to bulk convection in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection," 2024, Physical Review Fluids

Robert E. Ecke has collaborated with various researchers throughout their career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Olga Shishkina
  • Xuan Zhang
  • Philipp Reiter
  • Dennis P. M. van Gils

The scientist has been recognized by professional societies, holding fellowships in two major organizations:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 1994, with citation for fundamental contributions to thermal convection including universal transition to chaos in helium-3/helium-4 superfluid mixtures and pattern dynamics in rotating convection

Best Publications

  • Two-Dimensional Turbulence

    Guido Boffetta;Robert E. Ecke

  • Convective instability and mass transport of diffusion layers in a Hele-Shaw geometry

    Scott Backhaus;Konstantin Turitsyn;R. E. Ecke

  • Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional inverse energy cascade.

    Shiyi Chen;Robert E. Ecke;Gregory L. Eyink;Gregory L. Eyink;Michael Rivera

  • Mechanisms of extensive spatiotemporal chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection

    David A. Egolf;Ilarion V. Melnikov;Werner Pesch;Robert E. Ecke

  • Turbulence in Flowing Soap Films: Velocity, Vorticity, and Thickness Fields

    Michael Rivera;Peter Vorobieff;Robert E. Ecke

  • Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection: asymmetric modes and vortex states

    Fang Zhong;Robert E. Ecke;Victor Steinberg

  • Heat Transport Scaling in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: Effects of Rotation and Prandtl Number

    Yuanming Liu;Robert E. Ecke

  • Physical Mechanism of the Two-Dimensional Enstrophy Cascade

    Shiyi Chen;Shiyi Chen;Robert E. Ecke;Gregory L. Eyink;Xin Wang

  • Hopf bifurcation with broken reflection symmetry in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    R. E. Ecke;Fang Zhong;Fang Zhong;E. Knobloch

  • Asymmetric modes and the transition to vortex structures in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    Fang Zhong;Robert Ecke;Victor Steinberg

  • Turbulent rotating convection: an experimental study

    Peter Vorobieff;Robert E. Ecke

  • Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard Convection

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  • Heat transport in the geostrophic regime of rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Robert E. Ecke;Joseph J. Niemela

  • Energy and enstrophy transfer in decaying two-dimensional turbulence.

    M. K. Rivera;W. B. Daniel;S. Y. Chen;S. Y. Chen;R. E. Ecke

  • Does Turbulent Convection Feel the Shape of the Container

    Z. A. Daya;R. E. Ecke

  • Excitation of Spirals and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Robert E. Ecke;Yuchou Hu;Ronnie Mainieri;Guenter Ahlers

  • Soap film flows: Statistics of two-dimensional turbulence

    P. Vorobieff;M. Rivera;R. E. Ecke

  • Patterns in flowing sand: understanding the physics of granular flow.

    Tamás Börzsönyi;Robert E. Ecke;Jim N. McElwaine

  • Experiments on three systems with non-variational aspects

    Eberhard Bodenschatz;David S. Cannell;John R. de Bruyn;Robert Ecke

  • Heat transport measurements in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Yuanming Liu;Robert E. Ecke

  • Convection under rotation for Prandtl numbers near 1: Küppers-Lortz instability

    Yuchou Hu;Yuchou Hu;Werner Pesch;Guenter Ahlers;Robert E. Ecke

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Vorobieff
Peter Vorobieff University of New Mexico
Guenter Ahlers
Guenter Ahlers University of California, Santa Barbara
Scott Backhaus
Scott Backhaus Los Alamos National Laboratory
Shiyi Chen
Shiyi Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
Eli Ben-Naim
Eli Ben-Naim Los Alamos National Laboratory
Eberhard Bodenschatz
Eberhard Bodenschatz Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Victor Steinberg
Victor Steinberg Weizmann Institute of Science
Gregory L. Eyink
Gregory L. Eyink Johns Hopkins University
Yoshiteru Maeno
Yoshiteru Maeno Kyoto University
Paul A. Johnson
Paul A. Johnson Los Alamos National Laboratory

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