Karl Kunisch

17.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
330 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Karl Kunisch is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computational Mechanics and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Kunisch has authored 330 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 127 papers in Computational Mechanics and 115 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Karl Kunisch's work include Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations (89 papers), Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (88 papers) and Numerical methods in inverse problems (87 papers). Karl Kunisch is often cited by papers focused on Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations (89 papers), Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (88 papers) and Numerical methods in inverse problems (87 papers). Karl Kunisch collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Karl Kunisch's co-authors include Kazufumi Ito, Stefan Volkwein, Michael Hintermüller, Thomas Pock, Kristian Bredies, Maı̈tine Bergounioux, Heinz W. Engl, Christian Clason, Michael Hinze and Andreas B. Neubauer and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Karl Kunisch

315 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Total Generalized Variation

2010 967 citations Karl Kunisch, Thomas Pock et al. profile →
The Primal-Dual Active Set Strategy as a Semismooth Newton Method

2002 651 citations Kazufumi Ito, Karl Kunisch et al. profile →
Estimation Techniques for Distributed Parameter Systems

1989 543 citations Karl Kunisch et al. profile →
Convergence rates for Tikhonov regularisation of non-linear ill-posed problems

1989 360 citations Karl Kunisch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karl Kunisch Austria	49	4.9k	4.0k	2.7k	2.4k	2.1k	330	11.4k
Lloyd N. Trefethen United Kingdom	54	5.4k 1.1×	3.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	3.8k 1.6×	1.0k 0.5×	175	17.4k
Max Gunzburger United States	65	7.9k 1.6×	3.4k 0.9×	807 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	333	14.9k
Qiang Du United States	58	4.9k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	932 0.3×	2.2k 0.9×	535 0.3×	351	13.3k
Roland Glowinski United States	53	9.3k 1.9×	4.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	268	14.1k
Kazufumi Ito United States	42	3.0k 0.6×	2.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	248	7.9k
Peter Lancaster Canada	36	1.5k 0.3×	3.8k 0.9×	837 0.3×	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	184	10.3k
Claudio Canuto Italy	28	5.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.4×	780 0.3×	2.8k 1.2×	500 0.2×	113	10.8k
Ronald DeVore United States	44	5.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	429 0.2×	163	13.0k
Eitan Tadmor United States	54	10.2k 2.1×	995 0.3×	1.6k 0.6×	2.6k 1.1×	671 0.3×	179	15.9k
James Demmel United States	59	2.8k 0.6×	6.8k 1.7×	371 0.1×	2.6k 1.1×	762 0.4×	289	17.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Karl Kunisch

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Karl Kunisch's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Karl Kunisch with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Karl Kunisch more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Karl Kunisch

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Karl Kunisch. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Karl Kunisch. The network helps show where Karl Kunisch may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl Kunisch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karl Kunisch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karl Kunisch 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 Karl Kunisch. Karl Kunisch is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Kunisch, Karl, et al.. (2024). Tracking optimal feedback control under uncertain parameters. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 467. 134245–134245. 1 indexed citations

Kunisch, Karl & Daniel Walter. (2023). Optimal feedback control of dynamical systems via value-function approximation. Comptes Rendus Mécanique. 351(S1). 535–571. 3 indexed citations

Casas, Eduardo & Karl Kunisch. (2023). Infinite Horizon Optimal Control for a General Class of Semilinear Parabolic Equations. Applied Mathematics & Optimization. 88(2). 3 indexed citations

Kunisch, Karl, et al.. (2023). Saturated Feedback Stabilizability to Trajectories for the Schlögl Parabolic Equation. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 68(12). 7089–7103. 3 indexed citations

Casas, Eduardo & Karl Kunisch. (2022). Infinite horizon optimal control problems for a class of semilinear parabolic equations. UCrea (University of Cantabria). 8 indexed citations

Casas, Eduardo & Karl Kunisch. (2021). Well-posedness of evolutionary Navier-Stokes equations with forces of low regularity on two-dimensional domains. UCrea (University of Cantabria). 4 indexed citations

Kobler, Erich, et al.. (2020). Variational Networks: An Optimal Control Approach to Early Stopping Variational Methods for Image Restoration. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. 62(3). 396–416. 16 indexed citations

Kunisch, Karl, et al.. (2019). Optimal control problem for viscous systems of conservation laws, with geometric parameter, and application to the Shallow-Water equations. Interfaces and Free Boundaries Mathematical Analysis Computation and Applications. 21(3). 273–311. 3 indexed citations

Kunisch, Karl, et al.. (2019). Analysis of a nonlinear fluid-structure interaction model with mechanical dissipation and delay. Nonlinearity. 32(12). 5110–5149. 3 indexed citations

10.

Breiten, Tobias, et al.. (2019). Feedback Stabilization of the Two-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations by\n Value Function Approximation. arXiv (Cornell University). 11 indexed citations

11.

Kunisch, Karl, et al.. (2019). The effect of the terminal penalty in Receding Horizon Control for a class of stabilization problems. ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of Variations. 26. 58–58. 5 indexed citations

12.

Casas, Eduardo & Karl Kunisch. (2019). Analysis of optimal control problems of semilinear elliptic equations by BV-functions. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 3 indexed citations

13.

Breiten, Tobias, et al.. (2018). Infinite-Horizon Bilinear Optimal Control Problems: Sensitivity Analysis and Polynomial Feedback Laws. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. 56(5). 3184–3214. 13 indexed citations

14.

Breiten, Tobias, et al.. (2017). Taylor Expansions of the Value Function Associated with a Bilinear\n Optimal Control Problem. arXiv (Cornell University). 14 indexed citations

15.

Clason, Christian & Karl Kunisch. (2016). A convex analysis approach to multi-material topology optimization. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations

16.

Kunisch, Karl, et al.. (2014). A bilevel shape optimization problem for the exterior Bernoulli free boundary value problem. Interfaces and Free Boundaries Mathematical Analysis Computation and Applications. 16(4). 459–487. 3 indexed citations

17.

Haslinger, Jaroslav, Kazufumi Ito, Tomáš Kozubek, Karl Kunisch, & G. Peichl. (2009). On the shape derivative for problems of Bernoulli type. Interfaces and Free Boundaries Mathematical Analysis Computation and Applications. 11(2). 317–330. 24 indexed citations

18.

Kunisch, Karl, Günter Leugering, Jürgen Sprekels, & Fredi Tröltzsch. (2008). Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of PDE. Oberwolfach Reports. 5(1). 587–668. 1 indexed citations

19.

Desch, Wolfgang, Franz Kappel, & Karl Kunisch. (1994). Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems: Nonlinear Phenomena. Birkhäuser Basel eBooks. 11 indexed citations

20.

Vainikko, Gennadi & Karl Kunisch. (1993). Identifiability of the Transmissivity Coefficient in an Elliptic Boundary Value Problem. Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen. 12(2). 327–341. 8 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact