Donald Coles

5.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
37 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Donald Coles is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Coles has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Computational Mechanics, 12 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Donald Coles's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (28 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (7 papers) and Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (7 papers). Donald Coles is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (28 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (7 papers) and Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (7 papers). Donald Coles collaborates with scholars based in United States. Donald Coles's co-authors include Brian Cantwell, Alan J. Wadcock, Ari Glezer, Paul E. Dimotakis, Eric Hirst, A. Roshko, Wei‐Chuan Shih, Charles Van Atta, Ömer Savaş and G. T. Smedley and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and Journal of Applied Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Donald Coles

37 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

The law of the wake in the turbulent boundary layer 1956 2026 1979 2002 1956 1965 1983 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The law of the wake in the turbulent boundary layer
    1956 1.2k citations Donald Coles Journal of Fluid Mechanics profile →
  2. Transition in circular Couette flow
    1965 802 citations Donald Coles Journal of Fluid Mechanics profile →
  3. An experimental study of entrainment and transport in the turbulent near wake of a circular cylinder
    1983 731 citations Brian Cantwell, Donald Coles Journal of Fluid Mechanics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donald Coles United States 18 3.5k 1.4k 1.3k 503 386 37 4.2k
Helmut Eckelmann Germany 25 3.5k 1.0× 1.8k 1.3× 1.2k 0.9× 655 1.3× 406 1.1× 49 3.9k
F. H. Champagne United States 17 3.6k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 2.3k 1.8× 650 1.3× 306 0.8× 23 4.2k
D. J. Tritton United Kingdom 14 1.9k 0.5× 512 0.4× 454 0.3× 308 0.6× 201 0.5× 28 2.9k
Paolo Orlandi Italy 39 5.8k 1.7× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 2.6× 897 2.3× 148 6.7k
A. E. Perry Australia 40 7.3k 2.1× 3.0k 2.1× 2.5k 1.9× 1.8k 3.6× 968 2.5× 95 8.2k
Philip S. Klebanoff United States 15 2.6k 0.7× 1.0k 0.7× 1.0k 0.8× 505 1.0× 352 0.9× 20 2.9k
P. Henrik Alfredsson Sweden 42 5.9k 1.7× 2.3k 1.6× 2.6k 2.0× 1.4k 2.8× 758 2.0× 183 6.8k
Chia‐Shun Yih United States 26 2.9k 0.8× 321 0.2× 343 0.3× 431 0.9× 198 0.5× 95 4.0k
D. Rockwell United States 45 6.9k 2.0× 2.6k 1.8× 4.6k 3.5× 597 1.2× 316 0.8× 201 7.9k
I. Wygnanski United States 47 8.3k 2.4× 1.2k 0.8× 7.0k 5.3× 902 1.8× 348 0.9× 191 9.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald Coles

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Coles

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Donald Coles. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Donald Coles based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Donald Coles. Donald Coles is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smedley, G. T. & Donald Coles. (2005). A refractive tilting-plate technique for measurement of dynamic contact angles. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 286(1). 310–318. 8 indexed citations
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Smedley, G. T. & Donald Coles. (1990). Some transparent immiscible liquid pairs. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 138(1). 42–60. 12 indexed citations
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Glezer, Ari & Donald Coles. (1990). An experimental study of a turbulent vortex ring. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 211. 243–283. 135 indexed citations
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Savaş, Ömer & Donald Coles. (1985). Coherence measurements in synthetic turbulent boundary layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 160. 421–446. 23 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1985). The uses of coherent structure (Dryden Lecture). 23rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting. 13 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1984). On one mechanism of turbulence production in coherent structures. 397–402. 2 indexed citations
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Cantwell, Brian & Donald Coles. (1983). An experimental study of entrainment and transport in the turbulent near wake of a circular cylinder. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 136. 321–374. 731 indexed citations breakdown →
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Glezer, Ari & Donald Coles. (1982). A two-grating method for combined beam splitting and frequency shifting in a two-component laser-Doppler velocimeter. The Physics of Fluids. 25(12). 2142–2146. 1 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1981). Prospects for useful research on coherent structure in turbulent shear flow. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 4(2). 111–127. 39 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald, et al.. (1978). The flying hot wire and related instrumentation. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 79. 11352. 7 indexed citations
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Collins, Donald J., et al.. (1978). Measurements in the turbulent boundary layer at constant pressure in subsonic and supersonic flow. Part 1: Mean flow. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 10 indexed citations
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Cantwell, Brian, Donald Coles, & Paul E. Dimotakis. (1977). Anatomy of a turbulent spot. The Physics of Fluids. 20(10). S291–S291. 1 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1971). A Survey of Data for Turbulent Boundary Layers With Mass Transfer. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 16 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1969). Turbulent Boundary Layers in Pressure Gradients: A Survey Lecture Prepared for the 1968 AFOSR-IFP — Stanford Conference on Computation of Turbulent Boundary Layers. 5 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald & Charles Van Atta. (1966). Measured distortion of a laminar circular Couette flow by end effects. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 25(3). 513–521. 25 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1964). The Turbulent Boundary Layer in a Compressible Fluid. The Physics of Fluids. 7(9). 1403–1423. 234 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1957). Remarks on the Equilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layer. Journal of the aeronautical sciences. [REQUEST TITLE]. 24(7). 495–506. 27 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1956). The law of the wake in the turbulent boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1(2). 191–226. 1202 indexed citations breakdown →
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Coles, Donald. (1954). Measurements of Turbulent Friction on a Smooth Flat Plate in Supersonic Flow. Journal of the aeronautical sciences. [REQUEST TITLE]. 21(7). 433–448. 72 indexed citations
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Coles, Donald. (1954). The problem of the turbulent boundary layer. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik. 5(3). 181–203. 31 indexed citations

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