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Laurette S. Tuckerman

Laurette S. Tuckerman

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
39
Citations
6873
World Ranking
2110
National Ranking
65

Laurette S. Tuckerman publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurette S. Tuckerman sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 141 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Laurette S. Tuckerman D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurette S. Tuckerman sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For applying dynamical systems theory to hydrodynamic instabilities, especially to Couette flows, thermal convection, and Faraday and Eckhaus instabilities, and for developing numerical methods that make bifurcationtheoretic computations feasible

Overview

Laurette S. Tuckerman is affiliated with ESPCI Paris in France and conducts research primarily in engineering and environmental science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including computational mechanics, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, computer networks and communications, and biomedical engineering.

Their research topics focus extensively on fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, wind and air flow studies, nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, nanofluid flow and heat transfer, and fluid dynamics and vibration analysis.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Sébastien Gomé, Dwight Barkley, Zheng Zheng, Tobias M. Schneider, and Seungwon Shin.

Laurette S. Tuckerman has published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Physical Review Letters

Recent papers by Laurette S. Tuckerman include:

  • Statistical transition to turbulence in plane channel flow, 2020, Physical Review Fluids
  • Extreme events in transitional turbulence, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Frequency prediction from exact or self-consistent mean flows, 2021, Physical Review Fluids
  • Patterns in transitional shear turbulence. Part 1. Energy transfer and mean-flow interaction, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Patterns in transitional shear turbulence. Part 2. Emergence and optimal wavelength, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Among their recognitions, Laurette S. Tuckerman was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002 for contributions to dynamical systems theory applied to hydrodynamic instabilities and development of numerical methods facilitating bifurcation-theoretic computations.

Best Publications

  • Parametric instability of the interface between two fluids

    Krishna Kumar;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Order within chaos : towards a deterministic approach to turbulence

    Pierre Bergé;Yves Pomeau;Christian Vidal;David Ruelle

  • Spiral-wave dynamics in a simple model of excitable media: The transition from simple to compound rotation.

    Dwight Barkley;Mark Kness;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Asymmetry and Hopf bifurcation in spherical Couette flow

    Chowdhury K. Mamun;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Krylov methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

    W. S. Edwards;L. S. Tuckerman;R. A. Friesner;D. C. Sorensen

  • Computational study of turbulent laminar patterns in couette flow.

    Dwight Barkley;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Bifurcation Analysis for Timesteppers

    Laurette S. Tuckerman;Dwight Barkley

  • Numerical Bifurcation Methods and their Application to Fluid Dynamics: Analysis beyond Simulation

    Henk A. Dijkstra;Fred W. Wubs;Andrew K. Cliffe;Eusebius Doedel

  • Bifurcation analysis of the Eckhaus instability

    Laurette S. Tuckerman;Dwight Barkley

  • Mean flow of turbulent-laminar patterns in plane Couette flow

    Dwight Barkley;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Divergence-free velocity fields in nonperiodic geometries

    L. S. Tuckerman

  • Simulation of flow between concentric rotating spheres. Part 1. Steady states

    Philip S. Marcus;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Marangoni convection in binary mixtures with Soret effect

    A. Bergeon;D. Henry;H. Benhadid;L. S. Tuckerman

  • Stable vortex-bright-soliton structures in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates.

    K. J. H. Law;P. G. Kevrekidis;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • The 1[ratio ]2 mode interaction in exactly counter-rotating von Kármán swirling flow

    C. Nore;L. S. Tuckerman;O. Daube;S. Xin

  • Universal continuous transition to turbulence in a planar shear flow

    Matthew Chantry;Laurette S. Tuckerman;Dwight Barkley

  • Numerical simulation of Faraday waves

    Nicolas Périnet;Damir Juric;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Patterns in Wall-Bounded Shear Flows

    Laurette S. Tuckerman;Matthew Chantry;Dwight Barkley

  • Two-frequency parametric excitation of surface waves.

    T Besson;WS Edwards;LS Tuckerman

  • Patterns and dynamics in transitional plane Couette flow

    Laurette S. Tuckerman;Dwight Barkley

  • Simulation of flow between concentric rotating spheres. Part 2. Transitions

    Philip S. Marcus;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Bifurcation theory for three-dimensional flow in the wake of a circular cylinder

    Dwight Barkley;Laurette S. Tuckerman;Martin Golubitsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Dwight Barkley
Dwight Barkley University of Warwick
Rainer Hollerbach
Rainer Hollerbach University of Leeds
Peter J. Schmid
Peter J. Schmid King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Eusebius J. Doedel
Eusebius J. Doedel Concordia University
Richard A. Friesner
Richard A. Friesner Columbia University
Bruno Eckhardt
Bruno Eckhardt Philipp University of Marburg
Andrew G. Salinger
Andrew G. Salinger Sandia National Laboratories
Dan S. Henningson
Dan S. Henningson Royal Institute of Technology
Henk A. Dijkstra
Henk A. Dijkstra Utrecht University
Hartmut Löwen
Hartmut Löwen Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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