2026 Stefan Heinrich: 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	52	3672	3520	115	111	312	9176

Overview

Stefan Heinrich is affiliated with the Hamburg University of Technology in Germany and has focused their research on Engineering, with a strong specialization in Computational Mechanics.

Their work spans several subfields within engineering, including:

Computational Mechanics
Biomedical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Food Science
Ocean Engineering

Key topics addressed in their publications encompass:

Granular flow and fluidized beds
Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics
Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
Mineral Processing and Grinding
Microencapsulation and Drying Processes
Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Their publication record includes contributions to journals such as:

Powder Technology (17 publications)
Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (15 publications)
Processes (13 publications)
Chemie Ingenieur Technik (11 publications)
Advanced Powder Technology (9 publications)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Stefan Heinrich are:

"Possibilities and Limits of Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method Simulations in Process Engineering: A Review of Recent Advancements and Future Trends," 2020, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
"IL-17A-producing CD8 ⁺ T cells promote PDAC via induction of inflammatory cancer-associated fibroblasts," 2023, Gut
"Syngas, tar and char behavior in chemical looping gasification of sawdust pellet in fluidized bed," 2020, Fuel
"Monte Carlo Methods and Applications," 2021, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
"CFD-DEM Simulation of a Coating Process in a Fluidized Bed Rotor Granulator," 2020, Processes

Frequent collaborators include:

Swantje Pietsch-Braune
Maksym Dosta
Karl K. Sabelfeld
Kurt Binder
Nicolas Bouleau

Best Publications

DEM–CFD modeling of a fluidized bed spray granulator

Lennart Fries;Sergiy Antonyuk;Stefan Heinrich;Stefan Palzer

288
Citations
Energy absorption during compression and impact of dry elastic-plastic spherical granules

Sergiy Antonyuk;Stefan Heinrich;Jürgen Tomas;Niels G. Deen

277
Citations
Improved accuracy and convergence of discretized population balance for aggregation: The cell average technique

J. Kumar;M. Peglow;G. Warnecke;S. Heinrich

275
Citations
Breakage behaviour of spherical granulates by compression

Sergiy Antonyuk;Jürgen Tomas;Stefan Heinrich;Lothar Mörl

263
Citations
Impact breakage of spherical granules: Experimental study and DEM simulation

Sergiy Antonyuk;Manoj Khanal;Jürgen Tomas;Stefan Heinrich

220
Citations
CPFD simulation of circulating fluidized bed risers

Cheng Chen;Cheng Chen;Joachim Werther;Stefan Heinrich;Hai-Ying Qi

195
Citations
Operational experience with a system of coupled fluidized beds for chemical looping combustion of solid fuels using ilmenite as oxygen carrier

Andreas Thon;Marvin Kramp;Ernst-Ulrich Hartge;Stefan Heinrich

184
Citations
Collision dynamics in fluidised bed granulators: A DEM-CFD study

Lennart Fries;Sergiy Antonyuk;Stefan Heinrich;Daniel Dopfer

171
Citations
A novel process for coating of silica aerogel microspheres for controlled drug release applications

M. Alnaief;S. Antonyuk;C.M. Hentzschel;C.S. Leopold

153
Citations
Alginate-based hybrid aerogel microparticles for mucosal drug delivery.

V.S.S. Gonçalves;P. Gurikov;J. Poejo;A.A. Matias

150
Citations
An efficient numerical technique for solving population balance equation involving aggregation, breakage, growth and nucleation

Jitendra Kumar;Mirko Peglow;Gerald Warnecke;Stefan Heinrich

150
Citations
Analysis of the start-up process in continuous fluidized bed spray granulation by population balance modelling

Stefan Heinrich;Mirko Peglow;Matthias Ihlow;Markus Henneberg

138
Citations
Influence of liquid layers on energy absorption during particle impact

Sergiy Antonyuk;Stefan Heinrich;Niels Deen;Hans Kuipers

131
Citations
CFD–DEM model for coupled heat and mass transfer in a spout fluidized bed with liquid injection

Vinayak S. Sutkar;Niels G. Deen;Amit V. Patil;Vitalij Salikov

130
Citations
Membrane assisted fluidized bed reactors: Potentials and hurdles

Sark Deshmukh;S Heinrich;L Morl;van M Martin Sint Annaland

123
Citations
Development of egg white protein aerogels as new matrix material for microencapsulation in food

Ilka Selmer;Christian Kleemann;Ulrich Kulozik;Stefan Heinrich

122
Citations
Characterization and CFD-DEM modelling of a prismatic spouted bed

Vitalij Salikov;Sergiy Antonyuk;Stefan Heinrich;Vinayak S. Sutkar

120
Citations
Possibilities and Limits of Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method Simulations in Process Engineering: A Review of Recent Advancements and Future Trends.

Paul Kieckhefen;Swantje Pietsch;Maksym Dosta;Stefan Heinrich

119
Citations
An experimental study of the effect of collision properties on spout fluidized bed dynamics

Maureen S. van Buijtenen;Matthias Börner;Niels G. Deen;Stefan Heinrich

103
Citations
Coefficient of restitution for particles impacting on wet surfaces: An improved experimental approach

B Crüger;V Salikov;S Heinrich;S Antonyuk

101
Citations
Characterization and CFD-modeling of the hydrodynamics of a prismatic spouted bed apparatus

O Gryczka;O Gryczka;S Heinrich;NG Niels Deen;van M Martin Sint Annaland

99
Citations