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Wim Desmet

Wim Desmet

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
62
Citations
14082
World Ranking
611
National Ranking
5

Wim Desmet 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 Wim Desmet sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 1,207 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wim Desmet 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 Wim Desmet sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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 Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Wim Desmet is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, with a focus in the field of Engineering. Their scholarly output spans various subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their main research topics include:

  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
  • Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows
  • Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
  • Model Reduction and Neural Networks
  • Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods

Desmet has contributed extensively to the academic community through frequent publications in notable venues. Some of the primary journals and conferences where their work appears are Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Applied Acoustics, and NOISE-CON proceedings.

Their recent publications include:

  • Vehicle state and tyre force estimation: demonstrations and guidelines (2020), published in Vehicle System Dynamics
  • Mechanical properties of diamond lattice Ti-6Al-4V structures produced by laser powder bed fusion: On the effect of the load direction (2020), published in Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
  • Metamaterial foam core sandwich panel designed to attenuate the mass-spring-mass resonance sound transmission loss dip (2020), published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • On the modelling of gear alignment errors in the tooth contact analysis of spiral bevel gears (2020), published in Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • Low frequency tyre noise mitigation in a vehicle using metal 3D printed resonant metamaterials (2022), published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Their collaborations often include researchers such as Elke Deckers, Frank Naets, Claus Claeys, Lucas Van Belle, and Bert Pluymers, indicating a network of frequent co-authorship within their research domain.

Best Publications

  • A wave-based prediction technique for coupled vibro- acoustic analysis

    Wim Desmet

  • Stable force identification in structural dynamics using Kalman filtering and dummy-measurements

    Frank Naets;Javier Cuadrado;Wim Desmet

  • On the potential of tuned resonators to obtain low-frequency vibrational stop bands in periodic panels

    Claus C. Claeys;Karel Vergote;Paul Sas;Wim Desmet

  • A lightweight vibro-acoustic metamaterial demonstrator: Numerical and experimental investigation

    Claus Claeys;Elke Deckers;Bert Pluymers;Wim Desmet

  • Multibody modelling of varying complexity for modal behaviour analysis of wind turbine gearboxes

    Jan Helsen;Frederik Vanhollebeke;Ben Marrant;Dirk Vandepitte

  • Trefftz-Based Methods for Time-Harmonic Acoustics

    B. Pluymers;B. van Hal;D. Vandepitte;W. Desmet

  • Application of the transmissibility concept in transfer path analysis

    P. Gajdatsy;K. Janssens;Wim Desmet;H. Van der Auweraer

  • An online coupled state/input/parameter estimation approach for structural dynamics

    Frank Naets;Jan Croes;Wim Desmet

  • OPAX: A new transfer path analysis method based on parametric load models

    Karl Janssens;Peter Gajdatsy;Ludo Gielen;Peter Mas

  • Active control of sound transmission through a double panel partition

    Paul Sas;Chaoeng Bao;Fulop Augusztinovicz;Wim Desmet

  • A computationally efficient prediction technique for the steady-state dynamic analysis of coupled vibro-acoustic systems

    W. Desmet;B. van Hal;P. Sas;D. Vandepitte

  • On the impact of damping on the dispersion curves of a locally resonant metamaterial: Modelling and experimental validation

    Lucas Van Belle;Claus Claeys;Elke Deckers;Wim Desmet

  • The wave based method: An overview of 15 years of research

    Elke Deckers;Onur Atak;Laurens Coox;Roberto D’Amico

  • Simplified modelling of joints and beam-like structures for BIW optimization in a concept phase of the vehicle design process

    D. Mundo;R. Hadjit;S. Donders;M. Brughmans

  • Active sound quality control of engine induced cavity noise

    Leopoldo Pisanelli Rodrigues de Oliveira;Leopoldo Pisanelli Rodrigues de Oliveira;Karl Janssens;Peter Gajdatsy;Herman Van der Auweraer

  • Design and validation of metamaterials for multiple structural stop bands in waveguides

    Claus Claeys;Noé Geraldo Rocha de Melo Filho;Lucas Van Belle;Elke Deckers

  • Probability that a band-gap extremum is located on the irreducible Brillouin-zone contour for the 17 different plane crystallographic lattices

    Florian Maurin;Claus Claeys;Elke Deckers;Wim Desmet

  • A reduced beam and joint concept modeling approach to optimize global vehicle body dynamics

    S. Donders;Y. Takahashi;R. Hadjit;T. Van Langenhove

  • An efficient wave based prediction technique for plate bending vibrations

    C. Vanmaele;D. Vandepitte;W. Desmet

  • Vehicle state and tyre force estimation: demonstrations and guidelines

    Marco Viehweger;Cyrano Vaseur;Sebastiaan van Aalst;Manuel Acosta

  • Computer assisted mechanics and engineering sciences

    Bert Pluymers;Wim Desmet

  • Multibody modelling of varying complexity for modal behaviour analysis of Wind Turbine Gearboxes

    Jan Helsen;Frederik Vanhollebeke;Filip De Coninck;Dirk Vandepitte

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart Peeters
Bart Peeters Siemens (Belgium)
Jan Swevers
Jan Swevers KU Leuven
Mohamed Ichchou
Mohamed Ichchou École Centrale de Lyon
Javier Cuadrado
Javier Cuadrado University of A Coruña
Johan Meyers
Johan Meyers KU Leuven
Robert B. Randall
Robert B. Randall University of New South Wales

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