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D-Index
68
Citations
17244
World Ranking
6492
National Ranking
1974

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the pioneering development of accurate descriptions of nuclear motion in collision dynamics and molecular spectroscopy, and for the calculations of accurate spectroscopic data and reaction rates

Best Publications

  • The HITRAN2020 molecular spectroscopic database

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  • The determination of an accurate isotope dependent potential energy surface for water from extensive ab initio calculations and experimental data

    Harry Partridge;David W. Schwenke

  • Systematic study of basis set superposition errors in the calculated interaction energy of two HF molecules

    David W. Schwenke;Donald G. Truhlar

  • On the Enthalpy of Formation of Hydroxyl Radical and Gas-Phase Bond Dissociation Energies of Water and Hydroxyl

    Branko Ruscic;Albert F. Wagner;Lawrence B. Harding;Robert L. Asher

  • Convergence testing of the analytic representation of an ab initio dipole moment function for water: Improved fitting yields improved intensities

    David W. Schwenke;Harry Partridge

  • High-Accuracy ab Initio Rotation-Vibration Transitions for Water

    Oleg L. Polyansky;Attila G. Csaszar;Sergei V. Shirin;Nikolai F. Zobov

  • The extrapolation of one-electron basis sets in electronic structure calculations: how it should work and how it can be made to work.

    David W. Schwenke

  • Quasifree-scattering model for the imaginary part of the optical potential for electron scattering

    Grażyna Staszewska;David W. Schwenke;Devarajan Thirumalai;Devarajan Thirumalai;Donald G. Truhlar

  • Rovibrational internal energy transfer and dissociation of N2(1Σg+)−N(4Su) system in hypersonic flows

    Marco Panesi;Richard L. Jaffe;David W. Schwenke;Thierry E. Magin

  • TiO and H2O Absorption Lines in Cool Stellar Atmospheres

    Peter H. Hauschildt;David Schwenke

  • Investigation of the shape of the imaginary part of the optical-model potential for electron scattering by rare gases

    Grażyna Staszewska;Grażyna Staszewska;David W. Schwenke;Donald G. Truhlar

  • Recommended Collision Integrals for Transport Property Computations Part 2: Mars and Venus Entries

    Michael J. Wright;Helen H. Hwang;David W. Schwenke

  • Vibrational energy levels for CH4 from an ab initio potential.

    David W. Schwenke;Harry Partridge

  • Beyond the Potential Energy Surface: Ab initio Corrections to the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation for H2O†

    David W. Schwenke

  • L2 amplitude density method for multichannel inelastic and rearrangement collisions

    John Z. H. Zhang;Donald J. Kouri;Kenneth Haug;David W. Schwenke

  • Towards accurate ab initio predictions of the vibrational spectrum of methane

    David W. Schwenke

  • ExoMol molecular line lists - XVII. The rotation-vibration spectrum of hot SO3

    Daniel S. Underwood;Jonathan Tennyson;Sergei N. Yurchenko;Xinchuan Huang

  • Total internal partition sums for 166 isotopologues of 51 molecules important in planetary atmospheres: Application to HITRAN2016 and beyond

    Robert R. Gamache;Christopher Roller;Eldon Lopes;Iouli E. Gordon

  • H+H2 thermal reaction: a convergence of theory and experiment.

    Steven L. Mielke;Kirk A. Peterson;Kirk A. Peterson;David W. Schwenke;Bruce C. Garrett

  • Theoretical study of the A’ 5Σ+g and C‘ 5Πu states of N2: Implications for the N2 afterglow

    Harry Partridge;Stephen R. Langhoff;Charles W. Bauschlicher;David W. Schwenke

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald G. Truhlar
Donald G. Truhlar University of Minnesota
Richard L. Jaffe
Richard L. Jaffe Ames Research Center
Timothy J. Lee
Timothy J. Lee Ames Research Center
Harry Partridge
Harry Partridge Ames Research Center
Christopher O. Johnston
Christopher O. Johnston Langley Research Center
Jonathan Tennyson
Jonathan Tennyson University College London
Kirk A. Peterson
Kirk A. Peterson Washington State University
Bruce C. Garrett
Bruce C. Garrett United States Department of Energy
Peter H. Hauschildt
Peter H. Hauschildt Universität Hamburg
Charles W. Bauschlicher
Charles W. Bauschlicher Ames Research Center

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