William H. Rae

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

William H. Rae is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. Rae has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 2 papers in Environmental Engineering and 1 paper in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in William H. Rae's work include Aerospace and Aviation Technology (5 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (2 papers) and Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research (2 papers). William H. Rae is often cited by papers focused on Aerospace and Aviation Technology (5 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (2 papers) and Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research (2 papers). William H. Rae collaborates with scholars based in United States. William H. Rae's co-authors include Alan Pope and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Aircraft, Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

In The Last Decade

William H. Rae

7 papers receiving 968 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.

Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing

1966 1.1k citations William H. Rae, Alan Pope Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William H. Rae United States	4	884	609	332	70	62	7	1.1k
Alan Pope United States	5	1.0k 1.2×	754 1.2×	344 1.0×	76 1.1×	69 1.1×	8	1.3k
E. C. Maskell India	7	583 0.7×	615 1.0×	251 0.8×	41 0.6×	26 0.4×	11	800
M. K. Bull Australia	10	547 0.6×	599 1.0×	456 1.4×	32 0.5×	51 0.8×	18	798
H. P. A. H. Irwin Canada	8	444 0.5×	444 0.7×	584 1.8×	36 0.5×	100 1.6×	12	869
Alan J. Bilanin United States	16	485 0.5×	558 0.9×	143 0.4×	93 1.3×	23 0.4×	43	849
B. G. Newman Canada	16	702 0.8×	596 1.0×	204 0.6×	21 0.3×	121 2.0×	38	922
J. F. Keffer Canada	17	725 0.8×	1.1k 1.9×	453 1.4×	43 0.6×	223 3.6×	54	1.3k
C. J. Apelt Australia	16	631 0.7×	1.1k 1.8×	726 2.2×	42 0.6×	85 1.4×	48	1.5k
David Apsley United Kingdom	20	661 0.7×	701 1.2×	539 1.6×	112 1.6×	88 1.4×	43	1.4k
W.H. Melbourne Australia	24	852 1.0×	984 1.6×	1.2k 3.7×	30 0.4×	78 1.3×	54	1.7k

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Rae, William H. & Alan Pope. (1984). Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing - second edition. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 8 indexed citations

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Rae, William H., et al.. (1980). Recent research on V/STOL test limits at the University of Washington aeronautical laboratory. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1 indexed citations

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Rae, William H., et al.. (1979). Improvement of Flow Quality at the University of Washington Subsonic Wind Tunnel. Journal of Aircraft. 16(7). 419–420. 2 indexed citations

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Rae, William H., et al.. (1978). Low-Speed Test Limit of V/STOL Model Located Vertically Off-Center. Journal of Aircraft. 15(4). 253–254. 1 indexed citations

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Rae, William H., et al.. (1969). Comments on V/STOL wind tunnel data at low forward speeds.. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 4 indexed citations

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Rae, William H.. (1967). Limits on minimum speed V/STOL wind-tunnel tests.. Journal of Aircraft. 4(3). 249–254. 22 indexed citations

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Rae, William H. & Alan Pope. (1966). Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1067 indexed citations breakdown →

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