Wolfgang Nowak

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
172 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Nowak is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Nowak has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Environmental Engineering, 48 papers in Ocean Engineering and 31 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Nowak's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (76 papers), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (32 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (30 papers). Wolfgang Nowak is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (76 papers), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (32 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (30 papers). Wolfgang Nowak collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and New Zealand. Wolfgang Nowak's co-authors include Sergey Oladyshkin, Olaf A. Cirpka, Felipe P. J. de Barros, Jannik Haas, Anneli Guthke, Thomas Wöhling, Jonas Koch, Sinan Xiao, Felix Cebulla and Rainer Helmig and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Nowak

166 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

INTRODUCTION TO STOCHASTIC SEARCH AND OPTIMIZATION: ESTIMATION, SIMULATION, AND CONTROL

2012 420 citations Wolfgang Nowak profile →
Data-driven uncertainty quantification using the arbitrary polynomial chaos expansion

2012 325 citations Sergey Oladyshkin, Wolfgang Nowak profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Semi‐Quantitative Direct‐Push Data Can Improve Contaminant Delineation and Mass Discharge in Groundwater 2025 ·Ground Water ·(unknown), Wolfgang Nowak, Poul Løgstrup Bjerg, (unknown), (unknown), Mads Troldborg	0
2	Quantification of contaminant mass discharge and uncertainties: Method and challenges in application at contaminated sites 2024 ·Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ·(unknown), Poul Løgstrup Bjerg, (unknown), Nina Tuxen, Wolfgang Nowak, Mads Troldborg	1
3	Overdispersion in Gate Tomography: Experiments and Continuous, Two-Scale Random Walk Model on the Bloch Sphere 2024 ·Wolfgang Nowak, (unknown), (unknown), Matthias Möller	0
4	Gaussian active learning on multi-resolution arbitrary polynomial chaos emulator: concept for bias correction, assessment of surrogate reliability and its application to the carbon dioxide benchmark 2023 ·Computational Geosciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Sergey Oladyshkin, Wolfgang Nowak	1
5	Opportunities and challenges in CO2 geologic utilization and storage 2023 ·ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCH ·Liwei Zhang, Wolfgang Nowak, Sergey Oladyshkin, (unknown), Jianchao Cai	17
6	Information‐Theoretic Scores for Bayesian Model Selection and Similarity Analysis: Concept and Application to a Groundwater Problem 2023 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown), Sergey Oladyshkin, Wolfgang Nowak	0
7	Bayesian Calibration Points to Misconceptions in Three‐Dimensional Hydrodynamic Reservoir Modeling 2023 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Stefan Haun, Wolfgang Nowak, Silke Wieprecht, Sergey Oladyshkin	7
8	The method of forced probabilities: a computation trick for Bayesian model evidence 2022 ·Computational Geosciences ·(unknown), Peter Walter, Anneli Guthke, Kevin G. Mumford, Wolfgang Nowak	1
9	Surrogate-based Bayesian comparison of computationally expensive models: application to microbially induced calcite precipitation 2021 ·PUBLISSO (German National Library of Medicine) ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Johannes Hommel, Sergey Oladyshkin, Bernd Flemisch, Wolfgang Nowak	8
10	Overcoming the Model‐Data‐Fit Problem in Porous Media: A Quantitative Method to Compare Invasion‐Percolation Models to High‐Resolution Data 2021 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown), Anneli Guthke, (unknown), Kevin G. Mumford, Wolfgang Nowak	2
11	Exploratory-Phase-Free Estimation of GP Hyperparameters in Sequential Design Methods—At the Example of Bayesian Inverse Problems 2020 ·Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence ·(unknown), Marvin Höge, Wolfgang Nowak	2
12	Stochastic inverse modelling of groundwater flow and nitrate pollution in the Berambadi catchment 2019 ·EGUGA ·Mads Troldborg, (unknown), Wolfgang Nowak, Laurent Ruiz, Rachel Helliwell, (unknown), M. Sekhar	1
13	Save the Lake! Floating Solar Photovoltaic to Avoid Algae Blooms? 2018 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alberto de la Fuente, Wolfgang Nowak	1
14	Bayesian model evidence as a model evaluation metric 2017 ·EGUGA ·Anneli Guthke, Marvin Höge, Wolfgang Nowak	1
15	Nine Steps to Risk‐Informed Wellhead Protection and Management: A Case Study 2014 ·Ground Water ·(unknown), (unknown), Wolfgang Nowak	14
16	Stochastic evaluation of mixing-controlled steady-state plume lengths in two-dimensional heterogeneous domains 2012 ·Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ·Olaf A. Cirpka, Massimo Rolle, Gabriele Chiogna, Felipe P. J. de Barros, Wolfgang Nowak	45
17	Energia elektryczna ze źródeł geotermalnych 2011 ·Czysta Energia ·Wolfgang Nowak, (unknown)	0
18	Global sensitivity analysis: A flexible and efficient framework with an example from stochastic hydrogeology 2011 ·Advances in Water Resources ·Sergey Oladyshkin, Felipe P. J. de Barros, Wolfgang Nowak	63
19	Uncertainty of mass discharge estimates from contaminated sites using a fully Bayesian framework 2011 ·Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) ·Mads Troldborg, Wolfgang Nowak, Philip John Binning, Poul Løgstrup Bjerg, Rainer Helmig	1
20	Bayesian Geostatistical Design: Optimal Site Investigation When the Geostatistical Model is Uncertain 2009 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Wolfgang Nowak, Felipe P. J. de Barros, Yoram Rubin	2

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