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Peter D. Lax

Active 1944–2014

56
Papers
27,843
Citations
41
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Citations

Citations per year for Peter D. Lax1967: 9 citations1968: 9 citations1969: 13 citations1970: 15 citations1971: 12 citations1972: 12 citations1973: 22 citations1974: 22 citations1975: 34 citations1976: 40 citations1977: 22 citations1978: 27 citations1979: 29 citations1980: 27 citations1981: 26 citations1982: 29 citations1983: 36 citations1984: 44 citations1985: 32 citations1986: 38 citations1987: 36 citations1988: 44 citations1989: 24 citations1990: 43 citations1991: 40 citations1992: 33 citations1993: 34 citations1994: 34 citations1995: 40 citations1996: 51 citations1997: 50 citations1998: 42 citations1999: 57 citations2000: 86 citations2001: 65 citations2002: 77 citations2003: 107 citations2004: 73 citations2005: 109 citations2006: 145 citations2007: 97 citations2008: 134 citations2009: 149 citations2010: 121 citations2011: 117 citations2012: 140 citations2013: 153 citations2014: 159 citations2015: 152 citations2016: 165 citations2017: 137 citations2018: 173 citations2019: 167 citations2020: 220 citations2021: 232 citations2022: 203 citations2023: 181 citations2024: 185 citations2025: 160 citations2026: 56 citations

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,353 citing papers, 29% of this breakdownChina: 538 citing papers, 11.5% of this breakdownFrance: 419 citing papers, 9% of this breakdownGermany: 292 citing papers, 6.3% of this breakdownItaly: 230 citing papers, 4.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 169 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownSpain: 145 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownCanada: 119 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownIndia: 115 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownJapan: 94 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownRussia: 90 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSweden: 83 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
0%29%Other 21.9%

Institutions

Fields

  • Engineering47.4%
  • Mathematics20.8%
  • Physics and Astronomy14.1%
  • Computer Science10.5%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences1.9%
  • Environmental Science1.3%
  • Other4%

Topics

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics14.2%
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows8.3%
  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics6.3%
  • Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory4.9%
  • Navier-Stokes equation solutions4.8%
  • Nonlinear Waves and Solitons3.5%
  • Other58%

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  1. On Upstream Differencing and Godunov-Type Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

    Authors: Amiram Harten, Peter D. Lax, Bram van Leer - SIAM Review 1983 cited by 3,341

  2. Weak solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic equations and their numerical computation

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1954 cited by 1,809

  3. Solution of Two-Dimensional Riemann Problems of Gas Dynamics by Positive Schemes

    Authors: Peter D. Lax, Xu-Dong Liu - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 1998 cited by 584

  4. Systems of conservation laws

    Authors: Peter D. Lax, Burton Wendroff - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1960 cited by 2,639

  5. Integrals of nonlinear equations of evolution and solitary waves

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1968 cited by 3,122

  6. Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws II

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1957 cited by 2,872

  7. Survey of the stability of linear finite difference equations

    Authors: Peter D. Lax, Robert D. Richtmyer - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1956 cited by 797

  8. Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and the Mathematical Theory of Shock Waves

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks 1973 cited by 1,958

  9. Systems of Conservation Equations with a Convex Extension

    Authors: Kurt Friedrichs, Peter D. Lax - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1971 cited by 627

  10. Mathematics and its applications

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - The Mathematical Intelligencer 1986 cited by 311

  11. Development of Singularities of Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Journal of Mathematical Physics 1964 cited by 624

  12. On finite‐difference approximations and entropy conditions for shocks

    Authors: A. Harten, James M. Hyman, Peter D. Lax, Barbara Lee Keyfitz - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1976 cited by 350

  13. A simple one‐dimensional model for the three‐dimensional vorticity equation

    Authors: Peter Constantin, Peter D. Lax, Andrew J. Majda - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1985 cited by 302

  14. Periodic solutions of the KdV equation

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1975 cited by 623

  15. Shock Waves and Entropy

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Elsevier eBooks 1971 cited by 546

  16. 1. Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and the Mathematical Theory of Shock Waves

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks 1973 cited by 229

  17. Proof of a conjecture of P. Erdös on the derivative of a polynomial

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 1944 cited by 317

  18. Difference schemes for hyperbolic equations with high order of accuracy

    Authors: Peter D. Lax, Burton Wendroff - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1964 cited by 660

  19. Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - American Mathematical Monthly 1965 cited by 377

  20. The computation of discontinuous solutions of linear hyperbolic equations

    Authors: M. S. Mock, Peter D. Lax - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1978 cited by 86

  21. Computational Fluid Dynamics

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Journal of Scientific Computing, J. Sci. Comput. 2006 cited by 632

  22. Translation invariant spaces

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Acta Mathematica 1959 cited by 252

  23. On the stability of difference schemes

    Authors: Peter D. Lax, Burton Wendroff - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1962 cited by 177

  24. A stability theorem for solutions of abstract differential equations, and its application to the study of the local behavior of solutions of elliptic equations

    Authors: Peter D. Lax - Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1956 cited by 150