2026 Joachim Escher: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	49	1136	967	58	50	179	11038

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Overview

Joachim Escher is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Mathematics and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans numerous subfields including Applied Mathematics, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, Mathematical Physics, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Wave and Wind Energy Systems
Navier-Stokes equation solutions
Differential Equations and Boundary Problems
Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics

Joachim Escher has published research in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung
Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics
University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg)
Advances in Nonlinear Analysis
Mathematische Nachrichten

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

Stratified periodic water waves with singular density gradients, 2020, University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg)
Stratified periodic water waves with singular density gradients, 2020, Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata (1923 -)
The Mullins-Sekerka problem via the method of potentials, 2024, Mathematische Nachrichten

Other notable papers, although not solely authored by Escher, linked closely to their research interests are:

Variational Formulation of Rotational Steady Water Waves in Two-Layer Flows, 2021, Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics
Variational Formulations of Steady Rotational Equatorial Waves, 2020, Advances in Nonlinear Analysis

Frequent co-authors in Joachim Escher's collaborative projects include:

Bogdan-Vasile Matioc
Jifeng Chu
Patrik Knopf
Christina Lienstromberg
Anca-Voichita Matioc

Best Publications

Wave breaking for nonlinear nonlocal shallow water equations

Adrian Constantin;Joachim Escher

1556
Citations
Global existence and blow-up for a shallow water equation

Adrian Constantin;Joachim Escher

759
Citations
Well-posedness, global existence, and blowup phenomena for a periodic quasi-linear hyperbolic equation

Adrian Constantin;Joachim Escher

752
Citations
Particle trajectories in solitary water waves

Adrian Constantin;Joachim Escher

483
Citations
Analyticity of periodic traveling free surface water waves with vorticity

Adrian Constantin;Joachim Escher

483
Citations
On the blow-up rate and the blow-up set of breaking waves for a shallow water equation

J. Escher;A. Constantin

373
Citations
Well-posedness and blow-up phenomena for the 2-component Camassa-Holm equation

Zhaoyang Yin;Olaf Lechtenfeld;Joachim Escher

336
Citations
Global weak solutions and blow-up structure for the Degasperis–Procesi equation

Joachim Escher;Yue Liu;Zhaoyang Yin;Zhaoyang Yin

307
Citations
Classical solutions for Hele-Shaw models with surface tension

Joachim Escher;Gieri Simonett

267
Citations
Shock waves and blow-up phenomena for the periodic Degasperis-Procesi equation

Joachim Escher;Yue Liu;Zhaoyang Yin

228
Citations
GLOBAL WEAK SOLUTIONS FOR A SHALLOW WATER EQUATION

Adrian Constantin;Joachim Escher

218
Citations
Symmetry of steady periodic surface water waves with vorticity

Adrian Constantin;Joachim Escher

213
Citations
Quasilinear parabolic systems with dynamical boundary conditions

Joachim Escher

208
Citations
The surface diffusion flow for immersed hypersurfaces

Joachim Escher;Uwe F. Mayer;Gieri Simonett

198
Citations
Classical solutions of multidimensional Hele-Shaw models

Joachim Escher;Gieri Simonett

176
Citations
The volume preserving mean curvature flow near spheres

Joachim Escher;Joachim Escher;Gieri Simonett

175
Citations
A Center Manifold Analysis for the Mullins–Sekerka Model

Joachim Escher;Gieri Simonett

169
Citations
Well-posedness, blow-up phenomena, and global solutions for the b-equation

Joachim Escher;Zhaoyang Yin

166
Citations
Analytic solutions for a Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson correction

Joachim Escher;Jan Pruss;Gieri Simonett

145
Citations
Symmetry of steady deep-water waves with vorticity

Adrian Constantin;Joachim Escher

119
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Amann University of Zurich

Adrian Constantin University of Vienna

Zhaoyang Yin Sun Yat-sen University

Philippe Laurençot Toulouse Mathematics Institute

Jan Prüss Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Yue Liu The University of Texas at Arlington

Harald Garcke University of Regensburg

Yoshikazu Giga University of Tokyo

Walter A. Strauss Brown University

Jonatan Lenells Royal Institute of Technology

External Links

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