J. Denavit

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

J. Denavit is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Denavit has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 20 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 18 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in J. Denavit's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (17 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (16 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (13 papers). J. Denavit is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (17 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (16 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (13 papers). J. Denavit collaborates with scholars based in United States and Philippines. J. Denavit's co-authors include R. S. Hartenberg, F. Freudenstein, R. N. Sudan, P. W. Rambo, J. L. Vomvoridis, John J. Uicker, N. R. Pereira, D. W. Phillion, T. L. Crystal and V. Bailey and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

J. Denavit

56 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Kinematic Notation for Lower-Pair Mechanisms Based on Matrices

1955 3.0k citations J. Denavit, R. S. Hartenberg Journal of Applied Mechanics profile →
Kinematic Synthesis of Linkages

1965 711 citations J. Denavit et al. Journal of Applied Mechanics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
J. Denavit	2.8k	1.5k	1.3k	836	661	57	5.5k
Francis C. Moon	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	176 0.2×	96 0.1×	164	7.2k
Tarunraj Singh	1.8k 0.6×	688 0.5×	348 0.3×	872 1.0×	135 0.2×	316	4.5k
L. Meirovitch	5.0k 1.8×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	16 0.0×	164 0.2×	190	9.7k
D. Williamson	1.1k 0.4×	337 0.2×	649 0.5×	29 0.0×	590 0.9×	74	4.8k
Alfred Gray	279 0.1×	153 0.1×	397 0.3×	268 0.3×	1.5k 2.2×	124	7.0k
Darryll J. Pines	851 0.3×	901 0.6×	445 0.4×	38 0.0×	131 0.2×	158	3.5k
John Argyris	1.7k 0.6×	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	20 0.0×	97 0.1×	232	8.4k
G. Schmidt	757 0.3×	550 0.4×	802 0.6×	16 0.0×	804 1.2×	277	4.3k
David Levin	415 0.1×	766 0.5×	259 0.2×	35 0.0×	1.8k 2.8×	96	6.4k
T. K. Caughey	3.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	726 0.6×	19 0.0×	193 0.3×	134	11.0k

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Wilks, S. C., W. L. Kruer, J. Denavit, et al.. (1995). Nonlinear Theory and Simulations of Stimulated Brillouin Backscatter in Multispecies Plasmas. Physical Review Letters. 74(25). 5048–5051. 25 indexed citations

Denavit, J. & D. W. Phillion. (1994). Laser ionization and heating of gas targets for long-scale-length instability experiments. Physics of Plasmas. 1(6). 1971–1984. 86 indexed citations

Rambo, P. W. & J. Denavit. (1993). <title>Monte Carlo modeling of solid state photoswitches</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1873. 225–236. 1 indexed citations

Rambo, P. W. & J. Denavit. (1992). Time-implicit fluid simulation of collisional plasmas. Journal of Computational Physics. 98(2). 317–331. 28 indexed citations

Richardson, R., et al.. (1991). Transport of relativistic electron beams along wire arrays. Journal of Applied Physics. 69(9). 6261–6272. 4 indexed citations

Rambo, P. W. & J. Denavit. (1988). Propagation of a relativistic electron beam along an array of conductors. Journal of Applied Physics. 64(2). 479–488. 2 indexed citations

Denavit, J.. (1985). Simulations of the single-mode, bump-on-tail instability. The Physics of Fluids. 28(9). 2773–2777. 20 indexed citations

Denavit, J.. (1985). Time-implicit simulation of particle-fluid systems. Space Science Reviews. 42(1-2). 85–102. 3 indexed citations

Walsh, John MacLaren, et al.. (1983). Convergence of stochastic orbit computations. Journal of Computational Physics. 52(3). 545–568. 1 indexed citations

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Denavit, J. & W. L. Kruer. (1980). How to get started in particle simulation. 6(1). 35–44. 4 indexed citations

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Vomvoridis, J. L. & J. Denavit. (1979). Test particle correlation by a whistler wave in a nonuniform magnetic field. The Physics of Fluids. 22(2). 367–377. 39 indexed citations

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Denavit, J.. (1979). Collisionless plasma expansion into a vacuum. The Physics of Fluids. 22(7). 1384–1392. 185 indexed citations

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Denavit, J., et al.. (1975). Simulation of collisional effects in plasmas. Journal of Computational Physics. 18(2). 165–187. 14 indexed citations

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Denavit, J.. (1974). Discrete particle effects in whistler simulation. Journal of Computational Physics. 15(4). 449–475. 8 indexed citations

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Clark, Robert W., J. Denavit, & K. Papadopoulos. (1973). Laminar interactions in high Mach number plasma flows. The Physics of Fluids. 16(7). 1097–1101. 13 indexed citations

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Denavit, J.. (1972). Numerical simulation of plasmas with periodic smoothing in phase space. Journal of Computational Physics. 9(1). 75–98. 88 indexed citations

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Denavit, J.. (1966). Landau Damping and the Velocity Fourier Transform of the Initial Perturbation. The Physics of Fluids. 9(1). 134–140. 4 indexed citations

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Denavit, J.. (1965). First- and Second-Order Landau Damping in Maxwellian Plasmas. The Physics of Fluids. 8(3). 471–478. 13 indexed citations

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Uicker, John J., J. Denavit, & R. S. Hartenberg. (1964). An Iterative Method for the Displacement Analysis of Spatial Mechanisms. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 31(2). 309–314. 143 indexed citations

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Denavit, J. & R. S. Hartenberg. (1960). Approximate Synthesis of Spatial Linkages. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 27(1). 201–206. 12 indexed citations

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