Louis N. Howard

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Louis N. Howard is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Oceanography and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis N. Howard has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Computational Mechanics, 6 papers in Oceanography and 6 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Louis N. Howard's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (14 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (5 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (4 papers). Louis N. Howard is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (14 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (5 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (4 papers). Louis N. Howard collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Tunisia. Louis N. Howard's co-authors include Ruby Krishnamurti, Abhijit Sen Gupta, John W. Miles, Ralph C. Dougherty, Natalia G. Berloff, Philip G. Drazin, Jie Yu, Gerald R. North, David Pollard and Bruce A. Wielicki and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Louis N. Howard

38 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Louis N. Howard United States 17 1.1k 684 657 438 347 38 2.4k
George Veronis United States 27 1.3k 1.1× 690 1.0× 1.1k 1.6× 604 1.4× 450 1.3× 95 3.4k
John E. Hart United States 25 981 0.9× 436 0.6× 415 0.6× 278 0.6× 262 0.8× 83 1.9k
Melvin E. Stern United States 26 639 0.6× 1.7k 2.5× 2.0k 3.1× 980 2.2× 433 1.2× 92 3.5k
Rick Salmon United States 24 827 0.7× 1.0k 1.5× 1.3k 2.0× 867 2.0× 308 0.9× 54 2.6k
Shigeo Kida Japan 28 1.9k 1.7× 445 0.7× 219 0.3× 412 0.9× 605 1.7× 97 2.8k
Nicolas Mordant France 27 1.4k 1.2× 290 0.4× 504 0.8× 211 0.5× 578 1.7× 62 2.7k
Willem V. R. Malkus United States 16 1.2k 1.0× 320 0.5× 299 0.5× 266 0.6× 650 1.9× 39 2.4k
Joël Sommeria France 35 1.9k 1.7× 1.2k 1.8× 1.1k 1.7× 720 1.6× 997 2.9× 107 4.3k
Petros J. Ioannou United States 26 1.2k 1.1× 1.0k 1.5× 617 0.9× 1.2k 2.8× 409 1.2× 57 2.6k
Robert E. Ecke United States 37 2.4k 2.1× 530 0.8× 258 0.4× 768 1.8× 550 1.6× 126 4.2k

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All Works

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Lagerstrom, P. A., et al.. (2019). Fluid Mechanics and Singular Perturbations. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Weidman, Patrick, Andrzej Herczyński, Jie Yu, & Louis N. Howard. (2015). Experiments on standing waves in a rectangular tank with a corrugated bed. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 777. 122–150. 9 indexed citations
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Yu, Jie & Louis N. Howard. (2012). Exact Floquet theory for waves over arbitrary periodic topographies. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 712. 451–470. 15 indexed citations
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Yu, Jie & Louis N. Howard. (2010). On higher order Bragg resonance of water waves by bottom corrugations. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 659. 484–504. 18 indexed citations
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Howard, Louis N. & Jie Yu. (2007). Normal modes of a rectangular tank with corrugated bottom. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 593. 209–234. 19 indexed citations
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Dougherty, Ralph C. & Louis N. Howard. (2003). Analysis of excess Gibbs energy of electrolyte solutions: a new model for aqueous solutions. Biophysical Chemistry. 105(2-3). 269–278. 12 indexed citations
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Friedlander, Susan & Louis N. Howard. (1998). Instability in Parallel Flows Revisited. Studies in Applied Mathematics. 101(1). 1–21. 18 indexed citations
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Duan, Zhong-Hui & Louis N. Howard. (1998). Diamond lattice model of semicrystalline polyethylene in the amorphous region. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 108(13). 5608–5620. 5 indexed citations
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Howard, Louis N.. (1990). Limits on the Transport of Heat and Momentum by Turbulent Convection with Large‐Scale Flow. Studies in Applied Mathematics. 83(4). 273–285. 13 indexed citations
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Makino, Clint L., Louis N. Howard, & Theodore P. Williams. (1985). Spatiotemporal patterns of bleaching in rod photoreceptors. Annual Meeting Optical Society of America. TUU3–TUU3. 1 indexed citations
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Krishnamurti, Ruby & Louis N. Howard. (1981). Large-scale flow generation in turbulent convection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 78(4). 1981–1985. 293 indexed citations
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North, Gerald R., Louis N. Howard, David Pollard, & Bruce A. Wielicki. (1979). Variational Formulation of Budyko-Sellers Climate Models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 36(2). 255–259. 45 indexed citations
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Howard, Louis N.. (1975). Bifurcations in reaction-diffusion problems. Advances in Mathematics. 16(2). 246–258. 6 indexed citations
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Howard, Louis N. & William L. Siegmann. (1969). On the Initial Value Problem for Rotating Stratified Flow. Studies in Applied Mathematics. 48(2). 153–169. 15 indexed citations
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Kaplun, Saul, et al.. (1967). Fluid mechanics and singular perturbations : a collection of papers. Academic Press eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Miles, John W. & Louis N. Howard. (1964). Note on a heterogeneous shear flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 20(2). 331–336. 198 indexed citations
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Drazin, Philip G. & Louis N. Howard. (1961). Stability in a Continuously Stratified Fluid. Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division. 87(6). 101–116. 10 indexed citations
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Howard, Louis N.. (1961). A Note on the Existence of Certain Viscous Flows. Journal of Mathematics and Physics. 40(1-4). 172–176. 8 indexed citations
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Howard, Louis N.. (1957). Divergence formulas involving vorticity. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 1(1). 113–123. 12 indexed citations

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