World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
62
Citations
12895
World Ranking
1924
National Ranking
125

Overview

Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, including physics and astronomy, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in computational mechanics and atmospheric science.

They have published extensively on topics related to solar and space plasma dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and fluid dynamics and turbulent flows. Additional areas of research include astro and planetary science, advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, and geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies.

Frequent coauthors associated with their work include Gustavo Guerrero, Hilary Weller, А. Г. Косовичев, Christian Kühnlein, and Jan Ackmann.

Major venues where their research has appeared include arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Journal of Computational Physics.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz include:

  • Global simulations of Tayler instability in stellar interiors: a long-time multistage evolution of the magnetic field (2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • On the Spontaneous Generation of Three-dimensional Magnetic Nulls (2020, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • A suite of Richardson preconditioners for semi-implicit all-scale atmospheric models (2022, Journal of Computational Physics)
  • Implicit Large-eddy Simulations of Global Solar Convection: Effects of Numerical Resolution in Nonrotating and Rotating Cases (2022, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • Dynamics of tilted atmospheric vortices under asymmetric diabatic heating (2021, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics)

Best Publications

  • A Fully Multidimensional Positive Definite Advection Transport Algorithm with Small Implicit Diffusion

    Piotr K Smolarkiewicz

  • A Simple Positive Definite Advection Scheme with Small Implicit Diffusion

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

  • Low Froude Number Flow Past Three-Dimensional Obstacles. Part I: Baroclinically Generated Lee Vortices

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Richard Rotunno

  • MPDATA: A Finite-Difference Solver for Geophysical Flows

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Len G. Margolin

  • Gravity Waves, Compensating Subsidence and Detrainment around Cumulus Clouds

    Christopher S. Bretherton;Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

  • EULAG, a computational model for multiscale flows

    Joseph M. Prusa;Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Andrzej A. Wyszogrodzki

  • CRCP: a cloud resolving convection parameterization for modeling the tropical convecting atmosphere

    Wojciech W. Grabowski;Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

  • A Class of Semi-Lagrangian Approximations for Fluids

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Janusz A. Pudykiewicz

  • Magnetic Cycles in Global Large-eddy Simulations of Solar Convection

    Mihai Ghizaru;Paul Charbonneau;Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

  • The multidimensional positive definite advection transport algorithm: further development and applications

    Piotr K Smolarkiewicz;Terry L Clark

  • Multidimensional positive definite advection transport algorithm: an overview

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

  • Stochastic representations of model uncertainties at ECMWF: state of the art and future vision

    Martin Leutbecher;Sarah‐Jane Lock;Pirkka Ollinaho;Simon T. K. Lang

  • On the Dynamics of Hawaiian Cloud Bands: Island Forcing

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Roy M. Rasmussen;Terry L. Clark

  • On Forward-in-Time Differencing for Fluids: an Eulerian/Semi-Lagrangian Non-Hydrostatic Model for Stratified Flows

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Len G. Margolin

  • The Multi-Dimensional Crowley Advection Scheme

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

  • On the mode of dynamo action in a global large-eddy simulation of solar convection

    Étienne Racine;Paul Charbonneau;Mihai Ghizaru;Amélie Bouchat

  • On Forward-in-Time Differencing for Fluids: Extension to a Curvilinear Framework

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Len O. Margolin

  • Effective eddy viscosities in implicit large eddy simulations of turbulent flows

    J. Andrzej Domaradzki;Z. Xiao;Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

  • Large-eddy simulations of convective boundary layers using nonoscillatory differencing

    Len G. Margolin;Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Zbigniew Sorbjan

  • Low Froude Number Flow Past Three-Dimensional Obstacles. Part II: Upwind Flow Reversal Zone

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Richard Rotunno

  • EULAG, a computational model for multiscale flows: An MHD extension

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Paul Charbonneau

  • A class of monotone interpolation schemes

    Piotr K Smolarkiewicz;Georg A Grell

Frequent Co-Authors

Wojciech W. Grabowski
Wojciech W. Grabowski National Center for Atmospheric Research
Alexander G. Kosovichev
Alexander G. Kosovichev New Jersey Institute of Technology
Richard Rotunno
Richard Rotunno National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nagi N. Mansour
Nagi N. Mansour Ames Research Center
Rupert Klein
Rupert Klein Freie Universität Berlin
Dimitris Drikakis
Dimitris Drikakis University of Nicosia
Andreas Dörnbrack
Andreas Dörnbrack German Aerospace Center
Roy Rasmussen
Roy Rasmussen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Georg A. Grell
Georg A. Grell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

Trending Scientists