2026 Valentin L. Popov: 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	1693	1568	55	52	398	9499

Overview

Valentin L. Popov is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, particularly focusing on mechanics and tribology. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry.

The research topics covered by Valentin L. Popov include:

Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis
Tribology and Wear Analysis
Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis
Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
Tribology and Lubrication Engineering

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Valentin L. Popov include:

Adhesion and friction in hard and soft contacts: theory and experiment, 2021, published in Friction
Synovial Joints. Tribology, Regeneration, Regenerative Rehabilitation and Arthroplasty, 2021, published in Lubricants

Frequent collaborators in their work comprise:

I. A. Lyashenko
Qiang Li
А. Е. Филиппов
Vadym Borysiuk
Thao H. Pham

Valentin L. Popov has published books with several publishers, indicating a diverse range of contributions to academic literature. Some titles include:

Multiscale Biomechanics and Tribology of Inorganic and Organic Systems (Springer Nature, 2020)
Handbook of Contact Mechanics (Directory of Open Access Books, 2020)
Principios y aplicaciones de la mecánica de contacto en tribología, fricción y adherencia (Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante eBooks, 2020)
Contact mechanics perspective of tribology (Technische Universität Berlin, 2021)

The scientist's work is frequently published in venues such as:

AIP conference proceedings
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
Facta Universitatis Series Mechanical Engineering
Lubricants
Technical Physics

Best Publications

Contact Mechanics and Friction

Valentin L. Popov

1333
Citations
Contact Mechanics and Friction: Physical Principles and Applications

Valentin L. Popov

696
Citations
Method of Dimensionality Reduction in Contact Mechanics and Friction

Valentin L. Popov;Markus Heß

294
Citations
The research works of Coulomb and Amontons and generalized laws of friction

Elena Popova;Valentin L. Popov;Valentin L. Popov

243
Citations
Structural Design and Biomechanics of Friction-Based Releasable Attachment Devices in Insects

Stanislav N. Gorb;Rolf G. Beutel;Elena V. Gorb;Yuekan Jiao

233
Citations
Viscoelastic Materials

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233
Citations
Normal Contact Stiffness of Elastic Solids with Fractal Rough Surfaces

Roman Pohrt;Valentin L. Popov

191
Citations
Strength of adhesive contacts: Influence of contact geometry and material gradients

Valentin L. Popov;Valentin L. Popov;Roman Pohrt;Qiang Li

156
Citations
Kontaktmechanik und Reibung

Valentin L. Popov

152
Citations
Prandtl‐Tomlinson model: History and applications in friction, plasticity, and nanotechnologies

V.L. Popov;J.A.T. Gray

149
Citations
Overcoming the limitations of distinct element method for multiscale modeling of materials with multimodal internal structure

Evgeny V. Shilko;Evgeny V. Shilko;Sergey G. Psakhie;Sergey G. Psakhie;Sergey G. Psakhie;Siegfried Schmauder;Valentin L. Popov

146
Citations
Numerical simulation methods in tribology

V.L. Popov;S.G. Psakhie

136
Citations
Influence of Ultrasonic In-Plane Oscillations on Static and Sliding Friction and Intrinsic Length Scale of Dry Friction Processes

Valentin L. Popov;Jasminka Starcevic;Alexander E. Filippov

135
Citations
Influence of Ultrasonic Oscillation on Static and Sliding Friction

Elena Teidelt;Jasminka Starcevic;Valentin L. Popov

125
Citations
Handbook of Contact Mechanics: Exact Solutions of Axisymmetric Contact Problems

Valentin L. Popov;Markus Heß;Emanuel Willert

118
Citations
Subsurface layer formation during sliding friction

V. Panin;A. Kolubaev;S. Tarasov;V. Popov

114
Citations
Mapping of three-dimensional contact problems into one dimension.

Thomas Geike;Valentin L. Popov

104
Citations
Multiscale simulation of dry friction in wheel/rail contact

F. Bucher;A.I. Dmitriev;M. Ertz;K. Knothe

102
Citations
METHOD OF DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION IN CONTACT MECHANICS AND FRICTION: A USERS HANDBOOK. I. AXIALLY-SYMMETRIC CONTACTS

Valentin L. Popov

99
Citations
Earthquakes and Friction

Valentin L. Popov

99
Citations
METHOD OF DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION IN CONTACT MECHANICS AND FRICTION: A USER'S HANDBOOK. II. POWER-LAW GRADED MATERIALS

Markus Hess;Valentin L. Popov

25
Citations
Handbook of Contact Mechanics

Emanuel Willert;Valentin L Popov;Markus Heß

14
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey G. Psakhie Russian Academy of Sciences

Stanislav N. Gorb Kiel University

Sergej Fatikow Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

Marco Paggi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Yonggang Meng Tsinghua University

Siegfried Schmauder University of Stuttgart

Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Jean-François Molinari École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Dae-Eun Kim Yonsei University

Michael Urbakh Tel Aviv University

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