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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Saudi Arabia
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
55
Citations
12099
World Ranking
895
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development and use of highspeed imaging to understand the dynamics of smallscale multiphase and interfacial flows, leading to fundamental new understanding of the behavior of the bubbles and drops, breakup and coalescence, cavitation, splashes and other free surface flows

Overview

Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity, Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability, and Plant Surface Properties and Treatments.

Notable recent papers authored by Thoroddsen include:

  • Flexible solar cells based on foldable silicon wafers with blunted edges, 2023, Nature
  • On the formation of hydrogen peroxide in water microdroplets, 2022, Chemical Science
  • Superhydrophobicity and size reduction enabled Halobates (Insecta: Heteroptera, Gerridae) to colonize the open ocean, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • To Split or Not to Split: Dynamics of an Air Disk Formed under a Drop Impacting on a Pool, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Droplet impacts onto soft solids entrap more air, 2020, Soft Matter

Frequent co-authors in Thoroddsen's publications include:

  • Ivan U. Vakarelski
  • Farrukh Kamoliddinov
  • Ziqiang Yang
  • Kenneth R. Langley
  • Er Qiang Li

Thoroddsen has published in several key scientific venues known for fluid mechanics and related fields. These venues include:

  • Default Digital Object Group
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Physical Review Fluids

Their contributions to the scientific community have been recognized by their election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012. The citation for this fellowship notes Thoroddsen's development and use of high-speed imaging techniques to elucidate the dynamics of small-scale multiphase and interfacial flows, including phenomena such as the behavior of bubbles and drops, breakup and coalescence, cavitation, splashes, and other free surface flows.

Best Publications

  • Drop Impact on a Solid Surface

    C. Josserand;Sigurdur T Thoroddsen

  • Stabilization of Leidenfrost vapour layer by textured superhydrophobic surfaces

    Ivan U. Vakarelski;Neelesh A. Patankar;Jeremy O. Marston;Derek Y. C. Chan;Derek Y. C. Chan

  • High-Speed Imaging of Drops and Bubbles

    S.T. Thoroddsen;T.G. Etoh;K. Takehara

  • The coalescence speed of a pendent and a sessile drop

    S. T. Thoroddsen;K. Takehara;T. G. Etoh

  • Evolution of the fingering pattern of an impacting drop

    S. T. Thoroddsen;J. Sakakibara

  • The coalescence cascade of a drop

    Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen;Kohsei Takehara

  • Solution-printed organic semiconductor blends exhibiting transport properties on par with single crystals

    Muhammad R. Niazi;Ruipeng Li;Er Qiang Li;Ahmad R. Kirmani

  • The air bubble entrapped under a drop impacting on a solid surface

    S. T. Thoroddsen;T. G. Etoh;K. Takehara;N. Ootsuka

  • Phase Transition Control for High-Performance Blade-Coated Perovskite Solar Cells

    Jianbo Li;Rahim Munir;Yuanyuan Fan;Tianqi Niu

  • Drag Reduction by Leidenfrost Vapor Layers

    Ivan Uriev Vakarelski;Jeremy O. Marston;Derek Y. C. Chan;Derek Y. C. Chan;Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen

  • Air entrapment under an impacting drop

    S. T. Thoroddsen;T. G. Etoh;K. Takehara

  • The ejecta sheet generated by the impact of a drop

    S. T. Thoroddsen

  • Experimental study of coating flows in a partially-filled horizontally rotating cylinder

    S. T. Thoroddsen;L. Mahadevan

  • Spin-cast bulk heterojunction solar cells: a dynamical investigation.

    Kang Wei Chou;Buyi Yan;Ruipeng Li;Er Qiang Li

  • Experiments on bubble pinch-off

    S. T. Thoroddsen;T. G. Etoh;K. Takehara

  • von Kármán vortex street within an impacting drop

    Marie-Jean Thoraval;Kohsei Takehara;Takeharu Goji Etoh;Stéphane Popinet

  • Scaling of the fingering pattern of an impacting drop

    H. Marmanis;S. T. Thoroddsen

  • Semi-metallic, strong and stretchable wet-spun conjugated polymer microfibers

    Jian Zhou;Er Qiang Li;Ruipeng Li;Xuezhu Xu

  • One-dimensional self-confinement promotes polymorph selection in large-area organic semiconductor thin films

    Gaurav Giri;Ruipeng Li;Detlef M. Smilgies;Er Qiang Li

  • Spray and microjets produced by focusing a laser pulse into a hemispherical drop

    S. T. Thoroddsen;K. Takehara;T. G. Etoh;C.-D. Ohl

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Y. C. Chan
Derek Y. C. Chan Swinburne University of Technology
Aram Amassian
Aram Amassian North Carolina State University
Wolfgang Heidrich
Wolfgang Heidrich King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Gilles Lubineau
Gilles Lubineau King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Detlef-M. Smilgies
Detlef-M. Smilgies Cornell University
Kui Zhao
Kui Zhao Shaanxi Normal University
Dalaver H. Anjum
Dalaver H. Anjum Khalifa University
Reginald B. H. Tan
Reginald B. H. Tan National University of Singapore
Eliot Fried
Eliot Fried Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Christophe Josserand
Christophe Josserand École Polytechnique

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