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Researcher · ViGYAN (United States) · United States

W. Allen Kilgore

W. Allen Kilgore publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, on topics such as Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics and Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,183,184
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#655,742
of 1,627,098
Works
27
Citations
108
Citations per work
4.0
h-index
6
i10-index 2Top 54% in Aerospace Engineering
W. Allen Kilgore

What does W. Allen Kilgore research?

W. Allen Kilgore's work is mostly in Engineering (70%), Mathematics (9%).

Physical Sciences: 21 works · 79.3% of their workEngineering: 19 works · 70.2% of their workAerospace Engineering: 9 works · 32.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 5 works · 19.5% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 works · 7.8% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 works · 5.2% of their workMechanical Engineering: 1 works · 5.2% of their workMathematics: 2 works · 9.1% of their workApplied Mathematics: 2 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 20.7% of their workTHEIR WORKW. Allen Kilgore27works
Physical Sciences79%

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. Engineering1970.2%
    2. Mathematics29.1%
  2. Everything else620.7%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering32% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics20% of their works
  3. 3Applied Mathematics9% of their works
  4. 4Control and Systems Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. Allen Kilgore's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Boltzmann Equation, Kinetic Theory, High-Order Schemes, Turbulence Modeling, Cryogenic Storage, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Turbulent Flows and Vortex Dynamics.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Boltzmann Equation71 topic
  2. Kinetic Theory71 topic
  3. High-Order Schemes61 topic
  4. Turbulence Modeling61 topic
  5. Cryogenic Storage51 topic
  6. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)51 topic
  7. Turbulent Flows51 topic
  8. Vortex Dynamics51 topic
  9. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles41 topic
  10. Wind Estimation41 topic
  11. Molten Salt31 topic
  12. Negative Ion Sources31 topic
  13. Nuclear Reactor31 topic
  14. Performance Prediction31 topic
  15. Superconducting Cavities31 topic
  16. TBM31 topic

Where does W. Allen Kilgore work?

W. Allen Kilgore's main affiliation in the publication record is ViGYAN (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does W. Allen Kilgore have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 108 citations for W. Allen Kilgore, an h-index of 6, ranking #2,183,184 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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