Peter J. Westervelt

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Peter J. Westervelt is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter J. Westervelt has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 13 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 12 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Peter J. Westervelt's work include Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (17 papers), Underwater Acoustics Research (12 papers) and Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows (12 papers). Peter J. Westervelt is often cited by papers focused on Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (17 papers), Underwater Acoustics Research (12 papers) and Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows (12 papers). Peter J. Westervelt collaborates with scholars based in United States. Peter J. Westervelt's co-authors include Gerald J. Diebold, Richard A. Larson, G. Maidanik, Haakon A. Olsen, Howard A. Snyder, Robert T. Beyer, Mark B. Moffett, Ira Dyer, James F. Bartram and Peter Franken and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Journal of Sound and Vibration.

In The Last Decade

Peter J. Westervelt

44 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Parametric Acoustic Array

1963 662 citations Peter J. Westervelt The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter J. Westervelt United States	16	1.0k	469	257	254	221	45	1.6k
David T. Blackstock United States	22	1.2k 1.2×	456 1.0×	471 1.8×	227 0.9×	201 0.9×	101	2.4k
Lord Rayleigh	3	607 0.6×	456 1.0×	794 3.1×	46 0.2×	121 0.5×	7	2.6k
H. E. Bass United States	18	516 0.5×	201 0.4×	205 0.8×	38 0.1×	90 0.4×	57	1.4k
George Dassios Greece	24	629 0.6×	624 1.3×	268 1.0×	100 0.4×	123 0.6×	165	1.9k
L. Landweber United States	16	242 0.2×	177 0.4×	565 2.2×	112 0.4×	99 0.4×	49	1.4k
G. C. Gaunaurd United States	27	1.1k 1.1×	843 1.8×	99 0.4×	72 0.3×	861 3.9×	164	2.1k
M. A. Breazeale United States	24	888 0.9×	1.1k 2.4×	53 0.2×	103 0.4×	176 0.8×	106	2.1k
G. F. Miller United Kingdom	8	566 0.6×	883 1.9×	168 0.7×	59 0.2×	58 0.3×	16	1.8k
F. N. Frenkiel United States	11	555 0.6×	708 1.5×	383 1.5×	26 0.1×	376 1.7×	33	2.5k
Evgenia A. Zabolotskaya United States	26	1.0k 1.0×	578 1.2×	284 1.1×	281 1.1×	87 0.4×	89	1.9k

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1994). Answer to criticism of experiments on the scattering of sound by sound. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 95(5_Supplement). 2865–2865. 1 indexed citations

Diebold, Gerald J. & Peter J. Westervelt. (1988). The photoacoustic effect generated by a spherical droplet in a fluid. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 84(6). 2245–2251. 59 indexed citations

Westervelt, Peter J.. (1975). The status and future of nonlinear acoustics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 57(6). 1352–1356. 3 indexed citations

Westervelt, Peter J. & Richard A. Larson. (1973). Laser Excited Broadside Acoustic Array. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 53(1_Supplement). 384–384. 1 indexed citations

Westervelt, Peter J., et al.. (1970). Gravitational light-light and light-particle scattering: Comparison between the classical (general-relativistic) and quantum field-theoretic results. Il Nuovo Cimento B. 66(1). 129–136. 6 indexed citations

Westervelt, Peter J.. (1963). Parametric Acoustic Array. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 35(4). 535–537. 662 indexed citations breakdown →

Westervelt, Peter J.. (1963). Rotational Splitting of Degenerate Acoustic Modes. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 35(5_Supplement). 795–795. 1 indexed citations

Westervelt, Peter J.. (1960). Effect of Sound Waves on Heat Transfer. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 32(3). 337–338. 14 indexed citations

Dyer, Ira, Peter Franken, & Peter J. Westervelt. (1958). Jet Noise Reduction by Induced Flow. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 30(8). 761–764. 3 indexed citations

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Maidanik, G. & Peter J. Westervelt. (1957). Acoustical Radiation Pressure Due to Incident Plane Progressive Waves on Spherical Objects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 29(8). 936–940. 15 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1957). Acoustic Radiation Pressure. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 29(1). 26–29. 130 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1957). Scattering of Sound by Sound. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 29(2). 199–203. 73 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1957). Scattering of Sound by Sound. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 29(8). 934–935. 20 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J., et al.. (1956). Acoustic Streaming in the Vicinity of a Sphere. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 28(4_Supplement). 796–796. 3 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J., et al.. (1956). Acoustic Streaming in the Vicinity of a Sphere. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 28(1_Supplement). 155–155. 1 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1953). The Theory of Steady Rotational Flow Generated by a Sound Field. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 25(1). 60–67. 131 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1953). Hydrodynamic Flow and Oseen's Approximation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 25(5). 951–953. 5 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1953). Acoustic Streaming near a Small Obstacle. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 25(6). 1123–1123. 3 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1951). A Consideration of the Moment 〈F(t)|F(t)|n〉Av in the Detection Problem. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 23(5_Supplement). 634–634. 1 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Peter J.. (1951). Acoustical Impedance in Terms of Energy Functions. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 23(3). 347–348. 16 indexed citations

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