Thomas Y. Hou

12.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
159 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Thomas Y. Hou is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Applied Mathematics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Y. Hou has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Computational Mechanics, 50 papers in Applied Mathematics and 46 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Y. Hou's work include Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (52 papers), Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (47 papers) and Navier-Stokes equation solutions (46 papers). Thomas Y. Hou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (52 papers), Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (47 papers) and Navier-Stokes equation solutions (46 papers). Thomas Y. Hou collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Thomas Y. Hou's co-authors include Xiaohui Wu, Yalchin Efendiev, John Lowengrub, Zuoqiang Shi, Congming Li, Zhiming Chen, Juan Galvis, Michael Shelley, Zhiqiang Cai and Philippe G. LeFloch and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Y. Hou

155 papers receiving 7.8k 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 Multiscale Finite Element Method for Elliptic Problems in Composite Materials and Porous Media

1997 1.3k citations Thomas Y. Hou et al. Journal of Computational Physics profile →
Generalized multiscale finite element methods (GMsFEM)

2013 425 citations Yalchin Efendiev, Thomas Y. Hou et al. Journal of Computational Physics profile →
Removing the stiffness from interfacial flows with surface tension

1994 423 citations Thomas Y. Hou et al. Journal of Computational Physics profile →
Multiscale Finite Element Methods: Theory and Applications

2009 406 citations Thomas Y. Hou, Yalchin Efendiev CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) profile →
Global well-posedness of the viscous Boussinesq equations

2005 293 citations Thomas Y. Hou, Congming Li profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	On the Stability of Blowup Solutions to the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation in $$\mathbb{R}^d$$ 2025 ·(unknown), Thomas Y. Hou, (unknown), Yixuan Wang	0
2	Stable Nearly Self-Similar Blowup of the 2D Boussinesq and 3D Euler Equations with Smooth Data II: Rigorous Numerics 2025 ·Multiscale Modeling and Simulation ·(unknown), Thomas Y. Hou	5
3	Blowup analysis for a quasi-exact 1D model of 3D Euler and Navier–Stokes 2024 ·Nonlinearity ·Thomas Y. Hou, Yixuan Wang	2
4	Exponentially Convergent Multiscale Finite Element Method 2023 ·Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation ·Yifan Chen, Thomas Y. Hou, Yixuan Wang	2
5	Multiscale Model Reduction 2023 ·Applied mathematical sciences ·Eric T. Chung, Yalchin Efendiev, Thomas Y. Hou	7
6	Formation of Finite-Time Singularities in the 3D Axisymmetric Euler Equations: A Numerics Guided Study 2019 ·SIAM Review ·Guo Qing Luo, Thomas Y. Hou	11
7	Global regularity for a family of 3D models of the axi-symmetric Navier–Stokes equations 2018 ·Nonlinearity ·Thomas Y. Hou, (unknown), Fei Wang	3
8	A Model Reduction Method for Elliptic PDEs with Random Input Using the Heterogeneous Stochastic FEM Framework 2016 ·CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) ·Thomas Y. Hou, Pengfei Liu, Zhiwen Zhang	2
9	Intrinsic frequency for a systems approach to haemodynamic waveform analysis with clinical applications 2014 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Niema M. Pahlevan, Peyman Tavallali, Derek Rinderknecht, (unknown), Ray Matthews, Thomas Y. Hou, Morteza Gharib	34
10	Sparse Time-Frequency decomposition by adaptive basis pursuit. 2013 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Thomas Y. Hou, Zuoqiang Shi	2
11	A decadal microwave record of tropical air temperature from AMSU-A/aqua observations 2013 ·Climate Dynamics ·(unknown), King‐Fai Li, Yuk L. Yung, Hartmut H. Aumann, Zuoqiang Shi, Thomas Y. Hou	3
12	On singularity formation of a 3D model for incompressible Navier–Stokes equations 2012 ·Advances in Mathematics ·Thomas Y. Hou, Zuoqiang Shi, Shu Wang	10
13	On Singularity Formation of a Nonlinear Nonlocal System 2010 ·Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis ·Thomas Y. Hou, Congming Li, Zuoqiang Shi, Shu Wang, Xinwei Yu	10
14	Multi-Scale Phenomena in Complex Fluids 2009 ·Thomas Y. Hou, Chun Liu, Jianguo Liu	18
15	Dynamic Depletion of Vortex Stretching and Non-Blowup of the 3-D Incompressible Euler Equations 2006 ·Journal of Nonlinear Science ·Thomas Y. Hou, (unknown)	87
16	MULTISCALE NUMERICAL METHODS FOR SINGULARLY PERTURBED CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS 2004 ·International Journal of Computational Methods ·Peter J. Park, Thomas Y. Hou	23
17	An Efficient Dynamically Adaptive Mesh for Potentially Singular Solutions 2001 ·Journal of Computational Physics ·Héctor D. Ceniceros, Thomas Y. Hou	129
18	Growth rates for the linearized motion of 3-D fluid interfaces with surface tension far from equilibrium 1998 ·Asian Journal of Mathematics ·Thomas Y. Hou, Pingwen Zhang	3
19	Why nonconservative schemes converge to wrong solutions: error analysis 1994 ·Mathematics of Computation ·Thomas Y. Hou, Philippe G. LeFloch	172
20	A new desingularization for vortex methods 1992 ·Mathematics of Computation ·Thomas Y. Hou	4

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