William E. Schiesser

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

William E. Schiesser is a scholar working on Numerical Analysis, Computational Mechanics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Schiesser has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Numerical Analysis, 15 papers in Computational Mechanics and 10 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in William E. Schiesser's work include Numerical methods for differential equations (17 papers), Differential Equations and Numerical Methods (10 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (7 papers). William E. Schiesser is often cited by papers focused on Numerical methods for differential equations (17 papers), Differential Equations and Numerical Methods (10 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (7 papers). William E. Schiesser collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. William E. Schiesser's co-authors include A.C. Hindmarsh, Graham W. Griffiths, Peter D. Calvert, Alain Vande Wouwer, Edward N. Pugh, P. Saucez, S. Hamdi, C. A. Silebi, Vadim Y. Arshavsky and Katherine J. Strissel and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Cell Biology, Analytical Chemistry and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

In The Last Decade

William E. Schiesser

88 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Numerical Method of Lines: Integration of Partial Dif... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 250 500 750
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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.

  1. The Numerical Method of Lines: Integration of Partial Differential Equations.
    1993 755 citations William E. Schiesser et al. profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William E. Schiesser United States 24 426 425 360 322 313 91 2.5k
Mark W. Reichelt United States 5 552 1.3× 266 0.6× 460 1.3× 339 1.1× 254 0.8× 11 3.0k
Carol S. Woodward United States 18 956 2.2× 337 0.8× 439 1.2× 186 0.6× 152 0.5× 56 3.4k
Radu Serban United States 20 678 1.6× 382 0.9× 360 1.0× 223 0.7× 270 0.9× 89 3.3k
Massimiliano Giona Italy 26 507 1.2× 149 0.4× 210 0.6× 771 2.4× 882 2.8× 217 3.4k
Debasish Roy India 27 379 0.9× 239 0.6× 101 0.3× 329 1.0× 148 0.5× 266 3.1k
Peter N. Brown United States 20 1.9k 4.5× 440 1.0× 1.2k 3.2× 427 1.3× 310 1.0× 37 5.6k
Gerald Warnecke Germany 32 1.6k 3.8× 320 0.8× 197 0.5× 226 0.7× 113 0.4× 125 3.0k
Gang Wei China 28 691 1.6× 128 0.3× 301 0.8× 406 1.3× 185 0.6× 96 2.9k
Keith Eric Grant United States 10 356 0.8× 332 0.8× 156 0.4× 165 0.5× 94 0.3× 17 2.2k
Dan Shumaker United States 3 355 0.8× 332 0.8× 155 0.4× 160 0.5× 95 0.3× 5 1.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schiesser, William E., et al.. (2019). An intrinsic compartmentalization code for peripheral membrane proteins in photoreceptor neurons. The Journal of Cell Biology. 218(11). 3753–3772. 12 indexed citations
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Schiesser, William E.. (2017). Method of Lines Analysis of Turing Models. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Al‐Khaled, Kamel, et al.. (2017). Eventual periodicity of the forced oscillations for a Korteweg–de Vries type equation on a bounded domain using a sinc collocation method. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 330. 417–428. 20 indexed citations
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Griffiths, Graham W., Łukasz Płociniczak, & William E. Schiesser. (2016). Analysis of cornea curvature using radial basis functions – Part I: Methodology. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 77. 274–284. 26 indexed citations
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McHugh, A. J., Graham W. Griffiths, & William E. Schiesser. (2015). An Introductory Global CO2 Model. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Płociniczak, Łukasz, Graham W. Griffiths, & William E. Schiesser. (2014). ODE/PDE analysis of corneal curvature. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 53. 30–41. 9 indexed citations
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Schiesser, William E., et al.. (2011). RAYLEIGH-LOVE MODEL OF LONGITUDINAL VIBRATIONS OF CONICAL AND EXPONENTIAL RODS: EXACT SOLUTIONS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION BY THE METHOD OF LINES. 1 indexed citations
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Calvert, Peter D., et al.. (2007). Fluorescence relaxation in 3D from diffraction‐limited sources of PAGFP or sinks of EGFP created by multiphoton photoconversion. Journal of Microscopy. 225(1). 49–71. 26 indexed citations
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Hamdi, S., William E. Schiesser, & Graham W. Griffiths. (2007). Method of lines. Scholarpedia. 2(7). 2859–2859. 69 indexed citations
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Calvert, Peter D., Katherine J. Strissel, William E. Schiesser, Edward N. Pugh, & Vadim Y. Arshavsky. (2006). Light-driven translocation of signaling proteins in vertebrate photoreceptors. Trends in Cell Biology. 16(11). 560–568. 184 indexed citations
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Hamdi, S., W. H. Enright, Yvon Ouellet, & William E. Schiesser. (2005). Method of lines solutions of the extended Boussinesq equations. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 183(2). 327–342. 24 indexed citations
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Wouwer, Alain Vande & William E. Schiesser. (2005). Special Issue on the Method of Lines: Dedicated to Keith Miller. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 183(2). 241–244. 5 indexed citations
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Wouwer, Alain Vande, P. Saucez, William E. Schiesser, & S. Thompson. (2005). A MATLAB implementation of upwind finite differences and adaptive grids in the method of lines. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 183(2). 245–258. 19 indexed citations
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Saucez, P., Alain Vande Wouwer, William E. Schiesser, & P.A. Zegeling. (2004). Method of lines study of nonlinear dispersive waves. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 168(1-2). 413–423. 33 indexed citations
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Hamdi, S., W. H. Enright, Yvon Ouellet, & William E. Schiesser. (2004). Exact Solutions of Extended Boussinesq Equations. Numerical Algorithms. 37(1-4). 165–175. 9 indexed citations
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Silebi, C. A., William E. Schiesser, & R. B. Pandey. (1994). Dynamic Modeling of Transport Process Systems. Computers in Physics. 8(2). 178–178. 46 indexed citations
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Kahaner, David K., Esmond Ng, William E. Schiesser, & S. Thompson. (1991). Experiments with an ordinary differential equation solver in the parallel solution of method of lines problems on a shared-memory parallel computer. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 38(1-3). 231–253. 1 indexed citations
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Schiesser, William E.. (1970). Dear John. SIMULATION. 14(2). 93–94. 2 indexed citations
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Schiesser, William E.. (1964). The frequency response of an actuator supplied by two long hydraulic lines. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2(2). 87–91. 1 indexed citations

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