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Peter D. Lax

Peter D. Lax publishes mostly in Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics and Computational Theory and Mathematics, on topics such as Navier-Stokes equation solutions, Matrix Theory and Algorithms and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows.

World rank
#1,685
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#746
of 358,040
Works
82
Citations
2k
Citations per work
24.9

What does Peter D. Lax research?

Applied Mathematics: 16.0%Mathematical Physics: 14.8%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 12.3%Computational Mechanics: 11.1%other fields: 45.8%16%top field
Applied Mathematics16.0%Mathematical Physics14.8%Computational Theory and Mathematics12.3%Computational Mechanics11.1%other fields45.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Applied Mathematics16% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics15% of their works
  3. 3Computational Theory and Mathematics12% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics11% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics6% of their works
  6. 6Numerical Analysis5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter D. Lax's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Boundary Value Problems, Compressible Flows, Navier-Stokes Equations, Historical Sources, Mathematics Education, Matrix Computations, Nonlocal and Numerical Linear Algebra.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Boundary Value Problems92 topics
  2. Compressible Flows51 topic
  3. Navier-Stokes Equations51 topic
  4. Historical Sources41 topic
  5. Mathematics Education41 topic
  6. Matrix Computations41 topic
  7. Nonlocal41 topic
  8. Numerical Linear Algebra41 topic
  9. Partial Differential Equations41 topic
  10. Turbulent Flows41 topic
  11. Vortex Dynamics41 topic
  12. Generalized Functions31 topic
  13. Global Well-Posedness31 topic
  14. High-Order Schemes31 topic
  15. Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers31 topic
  16. Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation31 topic
  17. Turbulence Modeling31 topic

Where does Peter D. Lax work?

Peter D. Lax's main affiliation in the publication record is Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter D. Lax have?

Science Explorer counts 82 works and 2,038 citations for Peter D. Lax, ranking #1,685 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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