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Researcher · University of Southampton · United Kingdom

Nicholas Townsend

Nicholas Townsend publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Control and Systems Engineering, on topics such as Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability, Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions and Wave and Wind Energy Systems.

ORCID 0000-0001-6996-3532 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,321,658
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#103,322
of 367,258
Works
42
Citations
924
Citations per work
22.0
h-index
15
i10-index 18Top 19% in Ocean Engineering
Nicholas Townsend

What does Nicholas Townsend research?

Nicholas Townsend's work is mostly in Engineering (77%).

Physical Sciences: 32 works · 76.7% of their workEngineering: 32 works · 76.7% of their workOcean Engineering: 14 works · 34.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 15.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 7.5% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 works · 7.5% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 works · 6.7% of their workMechanical Engineering: 2 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 23.3% of their workTHEIR WORKNicholas Townsend42works
Physical Sciences77%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering3276.7%
  2. Everything else1023.3%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering34% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics15% of their works
  3. 3Control and Systems Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicholas Townsend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fluid-Structure Interaction, Numerical Simulation, CFD Simulations, Ship Maneuvering, Renewable Energy, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, SPH Method and Wave Energy.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Fluid-Structure Interaction172 topics
  2. Numerical Simulation172 topics
  3. CFD Simulations131 topic
  4. Ship Maneuvering131 topic
  5. Renewable Energy121 topic
  6. SPH Method121 topic
  7. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics121 topic
  8. Wave Energy121 topic
  9. Acoustic Communications111 topic
  10. Maritime Transportation112 topics
  11. Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks111 topic
  12. Emissions61 topic
  13. Environmental Impact61 topic
  14. Collision Avoidance51 topic
  15. Flow Control51 topic
  16. Unmanned Surface Vehicles51 topic
  17. Vortex-Induced Vibrations51 topic
  18. Airborne Wind Energy41 topic
  19. High Altitude Wind Power41 topic

Where does Nicholas Townsend work?

Nicholas Townsend's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nicholas Townsend have?

OpenAlex counts 42 works and 924 citations for Nicholas Townsend, an h-index of 15, ranking #1,321,658 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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