W. David Pointer

1.1k total citations
49 papers, 538 citations indexed

About

W. David Pointer is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, W. David Pointer has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 538 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 17 papers in Computational Mechanics and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in W. David Pointer's work include Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (22 papers), Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics (14 papers) and Nuclear Materials and Properties (13 papers). W. David Pointer is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (22 papers), Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics (14 papers) and Nuclear Materials and Properties (13 papers). W. David Pointer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Bulgaria. W. David Pointer's co-authors include Paul Fischer, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Elia Merzari, Andrew Siegel, Jeffrey G. Smith, James Lottes, P. F. Fischer, S. Lomperski, Adrian Tentner and Donna Cox and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and Journal of Heat Transfer.

In The Last Decade

W. David Pointer

46 papers receiving 507 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. David Pointer United States	12	266	251	79	75	69	49	538
S. Chen United States	4	72 0.3×	227 0.9×	125 1.6×	31 0.4×	68 1.0×	5	470
Patrick McDaniel United States	12	69 0.3×	27 0.1×	45 0.6×	55 0.7×	91 1.3×	30	397
Xinhai Xu China	10	164 0.6×	112 0.4×	25 0.3×	36 0.5×	23 0.3×	62	488
Chansup Byun United States	14	89 0.3×	185 0.7×	6 0.1×	54 0.7×	19 0.3×	35	463
Jiacheng Ni China	10	167 0.6×	90 0.4×	5 0.1×	15 0.2×	149 2.2×	39	465
Seunggyu Lee South Korea	15	114 0.4×	283 1.1×	356 4.5×	5 0.1×	44 0.6×	56	778
Pawan Goyal Germany	13	45 0.2×	101 0.4×	60 0.8×	19 0.3×	58 0.8×	47	634
Mridul Aanjaneya United States	16	26 0.1×	343 1.4×	11 0.1×	27 0.4×	28 0.4×	38	602
Fabiano Luís de Sousa Brazil	13	141 0.5×	45 0.2×	7 0.1×	11 0.1×	97 1.4×	42	515
Wiley J. Larson United States	8	575 2.2×	63 0.3×	27 0.3×	7 0.1×	52 0.8×	16	811

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Nguyen, Thien, et al.. (2024). Investigation of Point-Contact Strategies for CFD Simulations of Pebble-Bed Reactor Cores. Applied Sciences. 14(16). 7343–7343. 1 indexed citations

Pointer, W. David, et al.. (2022). Investigation of Point-Contact Strategies for CFD Simulations of Pebble Bed Reactor Cores. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 772–781.

Li, Mengnan, et al.. (2022). High-fidelity pool boiling simulations on multiple nucleation sites using interface capturing method. Nuclear Engineering and Design. 399. 112004–112004. 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Xingang, et al.. (2022). The pursuit of net-positive sustainability for industrial decarbonization with hybrid energy systems. Journal of Cleaner Production. 362. 132349–132349. 12 indexed citations

Shaver, Dillon, et al.. (2016). Simulation of boiling flow in a helical coil using a homogeneous equilibrium model with the Nek-2P CFD code. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 115. 1771–1774. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Dean, G.L. Yoder, W. David Pointer, & David Holcomb. (2015). Thermal hydraulics analysis of the Advanced High Temperature Reactor. Nuclear Engineering and Design. 294. 73–85. 8 indexed citations

Lomperski, S., Craig Gerardi, & W. David Pointer. (2015). Fiber optic distributed temperature sensor mapping of a jet-mixing flow field. Experiments in Fluids. 56(3). 36 indexed citations

Mahadevan, Vijay, Elia Merzari, Rajeev Jain, et al.. (2013). Sharp fuel assembly coupled simulation demonstrations. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 109. 774–778. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Rui & W. David Pointer. (2013). CFD analyses of natural circulation in the air-cooled reactor cavity cooling system. 3 indexed citations

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Merzari, Elia, W. David Pointer, & Paul Fischer. (2013). Numerical Simulation and Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of the Flow in a Counter-Flow T-Junction. Journal of Fluids Engineering. 135(9). 23 indexed citations

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Merzari, Elia, Paul Fischer, & W. David Pointer. (2012). Optimal Disturbances in Three-Dimensional Natural Convection Flows. 921–928. 3 indexed citations

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Pointer, W. David & Justin Thomas. (2010). Steady-state, whole-core prismatic VHTR simulation including core bypass. 6 indexed citations

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Pointer, W. David, et al.. (2009). Proposed Experiment for Validation of CFD Methods for Advanced SFR Design: Upper Plenum Thermal Striping and Stratification. 599–611. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Jeffrey G., Akira Tokuhiro, W. David Pointer, & Paul Fischer. (2009). Predictions in CFD simulations of wire-wrapped SFR fuel assemblies. 1594–1602. 2 indexed citations

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Pointer, W. David, P. F. Fischer, Jeffrey G. Smith, A. Obabko, & Andrew Siegel. (2009). Simulations of turbulent diffusion in wire-wrapped sodium fast reactor fuel assemblies. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 8 indexed citations

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Pointer, W. David, et al.. (2008). Prediction of Boiling Water Reactor Assembly Void Distributions Using a Two-Phase Computational Fluid Dynamics Model. 321–329. 2 indexed citations

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Pointer, W. David, P. F. Fischer, Andrew Siegel, & Jeffrey G. Smith. (2008). RANS-based CFD simulations of wire-wrapped fast reactor fuel assemblies. 1792–1801. 14 indexed citations

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Kindratenko, Volodymyr & W. David Pointer. (2006). A case study in porting a production scientific supercomputing application to a reconfigurable computer. 13–22. 56 indexed citations

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Cox, Donna, Volodymyr Kindratenko, & W. David Pointer. (2003). IntelliBadge™: Towards providing location-aware value-added services at academic conferences. Lecture notes in computer science. 2864. 264–280. 35 indexed citations

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Gohar, Y., et al.. (2002). Lead-Bismuth Target Design for Transmutation Reactors. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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