Ralph A. Smith

507 total citations
13 papers, 421 citations indexed

About

Ralph A. Smith is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph A. Smith has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 421 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Ralph A. Smith's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (4 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (4 papers) and Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (3 papers). Ralph A. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (4 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (4 papers) and Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (3 papers). Ralph A. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ralph A. Smith's co-authors include T. M. O’Neil, M. N. Rosenbluth, John A. Krommes, C. Oberman, Ronald C. Davidson, S.M. Lund and J. J. Ramos and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Ralph A. Smith

13 papers receiving 399 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ralph A. Smith United States	10	155	121	103	95	86	13	421
M. V. Nezlin Russia	12	231 1.5×	104 0.9×	91 0.9×	82 0.9×	50 0.6×	33	464
G. K. Morikawa United States	11	212 1.4×	117 1.0×	108 1.0×	110 1.2×	100 1.2×	20	435
W. Horton United States	10	434 2.8×	117 1.0×	404 3.9×	92 1.0×	92 1.1×	21	627
V. P. Ruban Russia	14	103 0.7×	107 0.9×	38 0.4×	190 2.0×	245 2.8×	57	601
Jens-Peter Lynov Denmark	16	401 2.6×	160 1.3×	263 2.6×	369 3.9×	91 1.1×	41	775
A. Mazure France	9	418 2.7×	245 2.0×	62 0.6×	145 1.5×	40 0.5×	14	682
O. G. Onishchenko Russia	18	867 5.6×	104 0.9×	368 3.6×	334 3.5×	45 0.5×	98	1.0k
Daniel Lecoanet United States	18	529 3.4×	163 1.3×	47 0.5×	25 0.3×	28 0.3×	48	787
C. C. Wu United States	21	1.1k 7.0×	495 4.1×	317 3.1×	23 0.2×	51 0.6×	52	1.6k
M. Ottaviani France	16	433 2.8×	150 1.2×	490 4.8×	52 0.5×	63 0.7×	33	682

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13 of 13 papers shown

Smith, Ralph A.. (1998). An operator expansion formalism for nonlinear surface waves over variable depth. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 363. 333–347. 33 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph A.. (1996). The operator expansion formalism for electromagnetic scattering from rough dielectric surfaces. Radio Science. 31(6). 1377–1385. 23 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph A.. (1992). Effects of electrostatic confinement fields and finite gyroradius on an instability of hollow electron columns. Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics. 4(2). 287–289. 21 indexed citations

O’Neil, T. M. & Ralph A. Smith. (1992). Stability theorem for off-axis states of a non-neutral plasma column. Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics. 4(9). 2720–2728. 36 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph A., T. M. O’Neil, S.M. Lund, J. J. Ramos, & Ronald C. Davidson. (1992). Comment on the stability theorem of Davidson and Lund. Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics. 4(5). 1373–1373. 5 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph A.. (1991). Maximization of vortex entropy as an organizing principle in intermittent, decaying, two-dimensional turbulence. Physical Review A. 43(2). 1126–1129. 34 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph A. & M. N. Rosenbluth. (1990). Algebraic instability of hollow electron columns and cylindrical vortices. Physical Review Letters. 64(6). 649–652. 83 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph A. & T. M. O’Neil. (1990). Nonaxisymmetric thermal equilibria of a cylindrically bounded guiding-center plasma or discrete vortex system. Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics. 2(12). 2961–2975. 91 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph A.. (1989). Phase-transition behavior in a negative-temperature guiding-center plasma. Physical Review Letters. 63(14). 1479–1482. 25 indexed citations

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Krommes, John A. & Ralph A. Smith. (1987). Rigorous upper bounds for transport due to passive advection by inhomogeneous turbulence. Annals of Physics. 177(2). 246–329. 30 indexed citations

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Smith, Ralph A.. (1986). Aspects of Turbulent Transport in a Bounded Plasma.. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Ralph A., et al.. (1985). Saturation of drift instabilities by electron dynamics. The Physics of Fluids. 28(4). 1069–1076. 7 indexed citations

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Krommes, John A., et al.. (1984). Nonlinear evolution of drift instabilities. The Physics of Fluids. 27(11). 2652–2663. 32 indexed citations

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