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116
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18
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Chi-Wang Shu publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chi-Wang Shu sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 634 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Chi-Wang Shu D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chi-Wang Shu sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 137 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 116 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2021 - John von Neumann Lecturer
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the numerical solution of partial differential equations including discontinuous Galerkin methods.
  • 2007 - SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering For the development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing, including TVD temporal discretizations, ENO and WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods.

Overview

Chi-Wang Shu is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and is recognized for extensive work in computational mathematics and engineering. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within numerical methods and computational fluid dynamics, focusing on solving complex partial differential equations.

Their recent publications include:

  • Essentially non-oscillatory and weighted essentially non-oscillatory schemes (2020, Acta Numerica)
  • Review of Entropy Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Systems of Conservation Laws on Unstructured Simplex Meshes (2020, CSIAM Transactions on Applied Mathematics)
  • An Oscillation-free Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Scalar Hyperbolic Conservation Laws (2021, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis)
  • An Essentially Oscillation-Free Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Hyperbolic Systems (2022, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing)
  • Provably physical-constraint-preserving discontinuous Galerkin methods for multidimensional relativistic MHD equations (2021, Numerische Mathematik)

Frequent co-authors working closely with Chi-Wang Shu include:

  • Mengping Zhang
  • Juan Cheng
  • Jianxian Qiu
  • Sergio Amat
  • Yong Liu

The scientist's work is regularly published in journals such as:

  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation
  • Journal of Scientific Computing
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Chi-Wang Shu's scholarly contributions also include a book published by the American Mathematical Society entitled 75 Years of Mathematics of Computation (2020).

Major fields of study covered by their research are:

  • Engineering
  • Mathematics

Subfields of interest include:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Their work touches on main topics such as:

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Numerical methods for differential equations
  • Differential Equations and Numerical Methods
  • Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Throughout their career, Chi-Wang Shu has received several awards, including:

  • John von Neumann Lecturer (2021)
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
  • SIAM Fellow (2009) for contributions to numerical solutions of partial differential equations including discontinuous Galerkin methods
  • SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2007) for the development of influential numerical methods such as TVD temporal discretizations, ENO and WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods

Best Publications

  • Efficient Implementation of Weighted ENO Schemes

    Guang-Shan Jiang;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes,II

    Chi-Wang Shu;Stanley Osher

  • Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes, II

    Unknown

  • The Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Conservation Laws V

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Total variation diminishing Runge-Kutta schemes

    Sigal Gottlieb;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Strong Stability-Preserving High-Order Time Discretization Methods

    Sigal Gottlieb;Chi-Wang Shu;Eitan Tadmor

  • The Local Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Time-Dependent Convection-Diffusion Systems

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Essentially Non-Oscillatory and Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

    Chi-Wang Shu

  • TVB Runge-Kutta local projection discontinuous galerkin finite element method for conservation laws. II: General framework

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi Wang Shu

  • The Development of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

    Bernardo Cockburn;George E. Karniadakis;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods for convection-dominated problems

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi-Wang Shu

  • TVB Runge-Kutta local projection discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for conservation laws III: one-dimensional systems

    B. Cockburn;S.-Y. Lin;C.-W. Shu

  • The Runge-Kutta local projection discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for conservation laws. IV. The multidimensional case

    Bernardo Cockburn;Bernardo Cockburn;Suchung Hou;Suchung Hou;Chi Wang Shu;Chi Wang Shu

  • Monotonicity Preserving Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory Schemes with Increasingly High Order of Accuracy

    Dinshaw S. Balsara;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Total-variation-diminishing time discretizations

    Chi-Wang Shu

  • High Order Weighted Essentially Nonoscillatory Schemes for Convection Dominated Problems

    Chi-Wang Shu

  • High-order essentially nonsocillatory schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi equations

    Stanley Osher;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Discontinuous Galerkin Methods: Theory, Computation and Applications

    Bernardo Cockburn;George E. Karniadakis;Chi-Wang Shu

  • On the Gibbs Phenomenon and Its Resolution

    David Gottlieb;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory Schemes on Triangular Meshes

    Changqing Hu;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Review Article Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Convection-Dominated Problems

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi-Wang Shu

Frequent Co-Authors

Irene M. Gamba
Irene M. Gamba The University of Texas at Austin
Bernardo Cockburn
Bernardo Cockburn University of Minnesota
Sze Chun Wong
Sze Chun Wong University of Hong Kong
José A. Carrillo
José A. Carrillo University of Oxford
David Gottlieb
David Gottlieb Brown University
Weinan E
Weinan E Princeton University
Stanley Osher
Stanley Osher University of California, Los Angeles
Eitan Tadmor
Eitan Tadmor University of Maryland, College Park
Carlo Cercignani
Carlo Cercignani Polytechnic University of Milan
Rémi Abgrall
Rémi Abgrall University of Zurich

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