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Tayfun E. Tezduyar

Tayfun E. Tezduyar

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
110
Citations
38875
World Ranking
34
National Ranking
19

Tayfun E. Tezduyar 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 Tayfun E. Tezduyar sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 567 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tayfun E. Tezduyar 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 Tayfun E. Tezduyar sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 110 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
  • 1997 - THE THOMAS J.R. HUGHES MEDAL
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Tayfun E. Tezduyar is affiliated with Rice University in the United States and specializes in engineering with a strong focus on computational mechanics and related fields. Their research spans multiple subfields, prominently including:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Biomedical Engineering

The core topics in their work cover advanced numerical analysis techniques, advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics, and computer graphics and visualization techniques. Additional areas of focus include lattice Boltzmann simulation studies, computational geometry and mesh generation, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, and model reduction and neural networks.

Tayfun E. Tezduyar has contributed to a range of publications with an emphasis on computational mechanics. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
  • Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences
  • Journal of Mechanics
  • Keisan Rikigaku Koenkai koen ronbunshu/Keisan Rikigaku Kouenkai kouen rombunshuu

Selected recent papers illustrate this focus:

  • Heart valve isogeometric sequentially-coupled FSI analysis with the space-time topology change method, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • Ventricle-valve-aorta flow analysis with the Space-Time Isogeometric Discretization and Topology Change, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • Gas turbine computational flow and structure analysis with isogeometric discretization and a complex-geometry mesh generation method, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • Space-Time Variational Multiscale Isogeometric Analysis of a tsunami-shelter vertical-axis wind turbine, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • Element length calculation in B-spline meshes for complex geometries, 2020, Computational Mechanics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kenji Takizawa
  • Charbel Farhat
  • Cedric Taylor
  • Nigel Weatherill
  • Philip Gresho

Tayfun E. Tezduyar has contributed to book publications within the domain of modeling and simulation in science, engineering, and technology. Recent books authored or edited include:

  • Frontiers in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation, 2023
  • Space-Time Computational Flow Analysis, 2025

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as:

  • Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), 2002
  • THE THOMAS J.R. HUGHES MEDAL, 1997
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1994

Best Publications

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

    Tayfun E. Tezduyar;James F. Barbour;Y Valu;BourlorRY coNDlTloN

  • A new strategy for finite element computations involving moving boundaries and interfaces—the deforming-spatial-domain/space-time procedure. I: The concept and the preliminary numerical tests

    T. E. Tezduyar;M. Behr;J. Liou

  • Incompressible flow computations with stabilized bilinear and linear equal-order-interpolation velocity-pressure elements

    T. E. Tezduyar;S. Mittal;S. E. Ray;R. Shih

  • A new strategy for finite element computations involving moving boundaries and interfaces—the deforming-spatial-domain/space-time procedure. II: Computation of free-surface flows, two-liquid flows, and flows with drifting cylinders

    T. E. Tezduyar;M. Behr;S. Mittal;J. Liou

  • Stabilized Finite Element Formulations for Incompressible Flow Computations

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  • Finite Elements Based Upon Mindlin Plate Theory With Particular Reference to the Four-Node Bilinear Isoparametric Element

    T. J.R. Hughes;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods and Applications

    Yuri Bazilevs;Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Mesh update strategies in parallel finite element computations of flow problems with moving boundaries and interfaces

    A. A. Johnson;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Finite element stabilization parameters computed from element matrices and vectors

    Tayfun E Tezduyar;Yasuo Osawa

  • Computation of moving boundaries and interfaces and stabilization parameters

    Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Mesh Moving Techniques for Fluid-Structure Interactions With Large Displacements

    K. Stein;T. Tezduyar;R. Benney

  • Finite element methods for first-order hyperbolic systems with particular emphasis on the compressible Euler equations

    Thomas J Hughes;T. E. Tezduyar

  • Modelling of fluid–structure interactions with the space–time finite elements: Solution techniques

    Tayfun E. Tezduyar;Sunil Sathe

  • Finite element methods for flow problems with moving boundaries and interfaces

    Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • 3D simulation of wind turbine rotors at full scale. Part I: Geometry modeling and aerodynamics

    Y. Bazilevs;Ming-Chen Hsu;I. Akkerman;S. Wright

  • Space-time finite element techniques for computation of fluid-structure interactions

    Tayfun E. Tezduyar;Sunil Sathe;Ryan Keedy;Keith Stein

  • Computational Fluid–Structure Interaction

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  • Parallel finite-element computation of 3D flows

    T. Tezduyar;S. Aliabadi;M. Behr;A. Johnson

  • Multiscale space---time fluid---structure interaction techniques

    Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Discontinuity-capturing finite element formulations for nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction equations

    T E Tezduyar;Y J Park

  • Computation of unsteady incompressible flows with the stabilized finite element methods: Space-time formulations, iterative strategies and massively parallel implementations

    T. E. Tezduyar;M. Behr;S. Mittal;A. A. Johnson

  • Simulation of multiple spheres falling in a liquid-filled tube

    A.A. Johnson;T.E. Tezduyar

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenji Takizawa
Kenji Takizawa Waseda University
Yuri Bazilevs
Yuri Bazilevs Brown University
Marek Behr
Marek Behr RWTH Aachen University
Franco Rispoli
Franco Rispoli Sapienza University of Rome
Sanjay Mittal
Sanjay Mittal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Ming-Chen Hsu
Ming-Chen Hsu Iowa State University
Thomas J. R. Hughes
Thomas J. R. Hughes The University of Texas at Austin
Ahmed Sameh
Ahmed Sameh Purdue University West Lafayette
Arif Masud
Arif Masud University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alison L. Marsden
Alison L. Marsden Stanford University

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