2026 Bernard J. Matkowsky: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	44	1606	1388	689	552	204	6940
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	46	1445	1337	573	497	223	8140

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - John von Neumann Lecturer
2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions to the combustion theory including the formulation and derivation of mathematical models and their use in describing observed behavior and predicting new, as yet unobserved, thermally active physical and chemical processes
2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1982 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Bernard J. Matkowsky is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Throughout their academic career, they have been recognized for their contributions to several scientific communities and have received multiple awards.

Matkowsky was named the John von Neumann Lecturer in 2017. Earlier distinctions include being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2006, with a citation highlighting contributions to combustion theory, specifically the formulation and derivation of mathematical models used to describe observed behavior and predict thermally active physical and chemical processes that had not yet been observed.

In 2001, Matkowsky was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The scientist was also awarded fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1982.

These honors indicate a career focused on mathematical and physical sciences with an emphasis on combustion theory and related thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. The specific recognition by APS illustrates Matkowsky's role in advancing mathematical models that integrate physical and chemical phenomena in thermally active systems.

There are no listed recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields or subfields of study, or main topics of work available for Matkowsky in the current data.

Best Publications

Flames as gasdynamic discontinuities

M. Matalon;B. J. Matkowsky

947
Citations
PROPAGATION OF A PULSATING REACTION FRONT IN SOLID FUEL COMBUSTION

B. J. Matkowsky;G. I. Sivashinsky

462
Citations
The Exit Problem for Randomly Perturbed Dynamical Systems

Bernard J Matkowsky;Zeev Schuss

358
Citations
An asymptotic derivation of two models in flame theory associated with the constant density approximation

Unknown

255
Citations
A direct approach to the exit problem

T. Naeh;M. M. Klosek;B. J. Matkowsky;Z. Schuss

213
Citations
Forced forward smolder combustion

D. A. Schult;Bernard J Matkowsky;Vladimir Volpert;A. C. Fernandez-Pello

182
Citations
Maximal energy accumulation in a superadiabatic filtration combustion wave

A.P. Aldushin;I.E. Rumanov;B.J. Matkowsky

161
Citations
Singular Perturbations of Bifurcations

Bernard J. Matkowsky;Edward L. Reiss

160
Citations
The Exit Problem: A New Approach to Diffusion Across Potential Barriers

Zeev Schuss;Bernard J. Matkowsky

159
Citations
Two routes to chaos in condensed phase combustion

A. Bayliss;B. J. Matkowsky

154
Citations
Fronts, relaxation oscillations, and period doubling in solid fuel combustion

A. Bayliss;B. J. Matkowsky

150
Citations
Uniform asymptotic expansions in transport theory with small mean free paths, and the diffusion approximation

Unknown

138
Citations
Bifurcation of Pulsating and Spinning Reaction Fronts in Condensed Two-Phase Combustion

Stephen B. Margolis;Hans G. Kaper;Gary K. Leaf;Bernard J. Matkowsky

135
Citations
Propagation and extinction of forced opposed flow smolder waves

D. A. Schult;Bernard J Matkowsky;Vladimir Volpert;A. C. Fernandez-Pello

134
Citations
Colored noise in dynamical systems

M. M. Klosek-Dygas;B. J. Matkowsky;Z. Schuss

124
Citations
Uniform expansion of the transition rate in Kramers' problem

B. J. Matkowsky;Z. Schuss;C. Tier

123
Citations
A Singular Perturbation Approach to Kramers’ Diffusion Problem

B. J. Matkowsky;Z. Schuss;E. Ben-Jacob

119
Citations
Turing Pattern Formation in the Brusselator Model with Superdiffusion

Alexander A. Golovin;Bernard J. Matkowsky;Vladimir A. Volpert

116
Citations
Roundoff Error in Computing Derivatives Using the Chebyshev Differentiation Matrix

Alvin Bayliss;Andreas Class;Bernard J. Matkowsky

116
Citations
An Asymptotic Theory of Large Deviations for Markov Jump Processes

C. Knessl;B. J. Matkowsky;Z. Schuss;C. Tier

114
Citations
An adaptive pseudo-spectral method for reaction diffusion problems

A. Bayliss;D. Gottlieb;B. J. Matkowsky;M. Minkoff

112
Citations
Eigenvalues of the Fokker–Planck Operator and the Approach to Equilibrium for Diffusions in Potential Fields

B. J. Matkowsky;Z. Schuss

105
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Moshe Matalon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abraham Nitzan University of Pennsylvania

Marc Mangel University of Bergen

A. C. Fernandez-Pello University of California, Berkeley

Brian M. Hoffman Northwestern University

Seung Hwan Ko Seoul National University

Costas P. Grigoropoulos University of California, Berkeley

Mark A. Ratner Northwestern University

William L. Kath Northwestern University

David Gottlieb Brown University

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