Gerald B. Whitham

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Gerald B. Whitham

Mathematics

#951

World Rank

#1655

Historical Rank

#415

USA Rank

Measure Theory

#331

World Rank

#500

Historical Rank

#143

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Gerald Beresford Whitham FRS was a British–born American applied mathematician and the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics of Applied & Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1953 under the direction of Sir James Lighthill. He is known for his work in fluid dynamics and waves.

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Gerald B. Whitham's Published Works

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On kinematic waves II. A theory of traffic flow on long crowded roads (1955) (4837)
Linear and Nonlinear Waves (1976) (4745)
On kinematic waves I. Flood movement in long rivers (1955) (1099)
ON KINEMATIC WAVES.. (1955) (951)
Linear and non linear waves (1974) (781)
A numerical and theoretical study of certain nonlinear wave phenomena (1978) (657)
The flow pattern of a supersonic projectile (1952) (592)
Variational methods and applications to water waves (1967) (572)
Non-linear dispersive waves (1965) (547)
A general approach to linear and non-linear dispersive waves using a Lagrangian (1965) (487)
On the propagation of shock waves through regions of non-uniform area or flow (1958) (421)
Linear and Nonlinear Waves: Whitham/Linear (1999) (394)
Variational principles in continuum mechanics (1968) (376)
Non-linear dispersion of water waves (1967) (299)
A new approach to problems of shock dynamics Part 2. Three-dimensional problems (1957) (296)
The effects of hydraulic resistance in the dam-break problem (1955) (251)
Nonlinear Dispersive Waves (1966) (218)
On the propagation of weak shock waves (1956) (185)
Two-timing, variational principles and waves (1970) (141)
Some comments on wave propagation and shock wave structure with application to magnetohydrodynamics (1959) (138)
A note on group velocity (1960) (130)
Mass, momentum and energy flux in water waves (1962) (115)
Motion of a bore over a sloping beach (1960) (101)
Research in Applied Mathematics. (1988) (81)
Exact solutions for a discrete system arising in traffic flow (1990) (78)
The behaviour of supersonic flow past a body of revolution, far from the axis (1950) (72)
On converging shock waves (1987) (66)
Lectures on wave propagation (1979) (63)
A new approach to problems of shock dynamics Part I Two-dimensional problems (1957) (62)
On the excitation of edge waves on beaches (1977) (59)
Comments on periodic waves and solitons (1984) (53)
The propagation of spherical blast (1950) (52)
Nonlinear effects in edge waves (1976) (48)
Group velocity and energy propagation for three‐dimensional waves (1961) (47)
An averaged Lagrangian method for dissipative wavetrains (1976) (18)
A note on shock dynamics relative to a moving frame (1968) (18)
A note on the stand‐off distance of the shock in high speed flow past a circular cylinder (1957) (17)
Non-linear Wave Propagation with Applications to Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics. By A. JEFFREY and T. TANIUTI. Academic Press, 1964. 369 pp. £4. 6s. (1966) (13)
The similarity solution for a bore on a beach (1980) (12)
Pure and Applied Mathematics (2011) (10)
Comments on some recent multisoliton solutions (1979) (8)
An approximate treatment of high-frequency scattering (1957) (7)
On shock dynamics (1987) (6)
Linear Dispersive Waves (2011) (5)
A note on a paper by G. C. McVittie (1954) (3)
The Propagation of Weak Spherical Shocks in Stars (2011) (3)
On finite amplitude water waves (1981) (3)
Exact Solutions; Interacting Solitary Waves (2011) (2)
Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics, edited by H. W. EMMONS (Volume Princeton I11 of High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion). University Press, 1958. 749 pp. $20.00. (1958) (2)
An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. By G. K. BATCHELOR. Cambridge University Press, 1967. 615 pp. 75s. or $13.50. (1969) (1)
The Propagation of Weak Shocks (2011) (1)
Waves and First Order Equations (2011) (1)
The Wave Equation (2011) (1)
Applications of the Nonlinear Theory (2011) (0)
Group Velocities, Instability, and Higher Order Dispersion (2011) (0)
RESEARCH IN FLUID DYNAMICS. (1963) (0)
The Propagation of Weak Shocks in a Stratified Atmosphere (2019) (0)
DYNAMICS OF METEOROLOGICAL FRONTS (1953) (0)
Introduction and General Outline (2011) (0)
Nonlinear Dispersion and the Variational Method (2011) (0)
Topics in nonlinear wave theory (1979) (0)
Vehicular Traffic Flow Model with Driver Aggressiveness Component in a Multilane Road (2016) (0)

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