2026 Uwe Thiele: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	43	1723	1597	60	57	128	7135

Overview

Uwe Thiele is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany. Their research spans across multiple interconnected fields, including engineering, materials science, and physics and astronomy. Thiele's work covers several subfields such as computational mechanics, materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, surfaces, coatings and films, and computer networks and communications.

The scientist's research topics include solidification and crystal growth phenomena, fluid dynamics and thin films, nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, micro and nano robotics, advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, as well as nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions.

Thiele has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical review. E
Physical Review Letters
Soft Matter

Their recent papers highlight topics in mathematical modeling and physical phenomena related to thin films and nonreciprocal systems. Notable publications include:

"Suppression of coarsening and emergence of oscillatory behavior in a Cahn-Hilliard model with nonvariational coupling," 2021, Physical review. E
"Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard Model Emerges as a Universal Amplitude Equation," 2023, Physical Review Letters
"Gradient-dynamics model for liquid drops on elastic substrates," 2021, Soft Matter
"From a microscopic inertial active matter model to the Schrödinger equation," 2023, Nature Communications
"Gradient dynamics model for drops spreading on polymer brushes," 2020, The European Physical Journal Special Topics

Frequent collaborators in Thiele's research include Tobias Frohoff-Hülsmann, Svetlana V. Gurevich, Simon Hartmann, Max Philipp Holl, and Daniel Greve.

Best Publications

Wetting of textured surfaces

José Bico;Uwe Thiele;David Quéré

1702
Citations
Dewetting of an Evaporating Thin Liquid Film: Heterogeneous Nucleation and Surface Instability

Uwe Thiele;Michael Mertig;Wolfgang Pompe

319
Citations
Numerical Bifurcation Methods and their Application to Fluid Dynamics: Analysis beyond Simulation

Henk A. Dijkstra;Fred W. Wubs;Andrew K. Cliffe;Eusebius Doedel

231
Citations
Dewetting: film rupture by nucleation in the spinodal regime.

Uwe Thiele;Manuel G. Velarde;Kai Neuffer

231
Citations
Morphology changes in the evolution of liquid two-layer films.

Andrey Pototsky;Michael Bestehorn;Domnic Merkt;Uwe Thiele

178
Citations
Modelling thin-film dewetting on structured substrates and templates: Bifurcation analysis and numerical simulations

U. Thiele;L. Brusch;M. Bestehorn;M. Bär

172
Citations
Alternative pathways of dewetting for a thin liquid two-layer film.

Andrey Pototsky;Michael Bestehorn;Domnic Merkt;Uwe Thiele

166
Citations
Fingering Instabilities in Dewetting Nanofluids

E. Pauliac-Vaujour;A. Stannard;C. P. Martin;M. O. Blunt

143
Citations
Validity domain of the Benney equation including the Marangoni effect for closed and open flows

Benoît Scheid;Christian Ruyer-Quil;Uwe Thiele;Oleg Kabov

141
Citations
Patterned deposition at moving contact lines

Uwe Thiele

140
Citations
Nonlinear evolution of nonuniformly heated falling liquid films

Benoit Scheid;Alexander Oron;Pierre Colinet;Uwe Thiele

134
Citations
On the instability of a falling film due to localized heating

Jan M. Skotheim;Uwe Thiele;Benoit Scheid

128
Citations
Open questions and promising new fields in dewetting

Uwe Thiele

123
Citations
Long-wave theory of bounded two-layer films with a free liquid–liquid interface: Short- and long-time evolution

D. Merkt;A. Pototsky;M. Bestehorn;U. Thiele

116
Citations
3D Large scale Marangoni convection in liquid films

M. Bestehorn;A. Pototsky;U. Thiele

113
Citations
Sliding drops on an inclined plane

Uwe Thiele;Kai Neuffer;Michael Bestehorn;Yves Pomeau;Yves Pomeau

102
Citations
Sliding drops in the diffuse interface model coupled to hydrodynamics.

Uwe Thiele;Manuel G. Velarde;Kai Neuffer;Michael Bestehorn

102
Citations
Dynamical model for the formation of patterned deposits at receding contact lines.

Lubor Frastia;Andrew J. Archer;Uwe Thiele

101
Citations
Stability analysis of thin film flow along a heated porous wall

Uwe Thiele;Benoît Goyeau;Manuel G. Velarde

101
Citations
Driven Drops on Heterogeneous Substrates: Onset of Sliding Motion

Uwe Thiele;Edgar Knobloch

101
Citations
Film rupture in the diffuse interface model coupled to hydrodynamics.

Uwe Thiele;Manuel G. Velarde;Kai Neuffer;Yves Pomeau;Yves Pomeau

100
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Edgar Knobloch University of California, Berkeley

Yves Pomeau École Polytechnique

Manuel G. Velarde Complutense University of Madrid

Markus Bär Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

Serafim Kalliadasis Imperial College London

Peter Hänggi University of Augsburg

Wolfgang Pompe TU Dresden

Lifeng Chi Soochow University

Andreas Heuer University of Münster

Jean Claude Legros Université Libre de Bruxelles

External Links

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