2026 Walter A. Strauss: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	56	719	614	357	283	155	19209
Engineering and Technology	43	5980	5771	1653	1534	111	16509

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Mathematics

719

614

357

283

155

19209

Engineering and Technology

5980

5771

1653

1534

111

16509

Mathematics

D-Index

Citations

19209

World Ranking

719

National Ranking

357

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

16509

World Ranking

5980

National Ranking

1653

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2009 - SIAM Fellow For investigations of nonlinear waves.
1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1971 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1962 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Walter A. Strauss is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily Earth and Planetary Sciences with 24 publications, and Physics and Astronomy with 16 publications. The scientist's subfields include Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Earth-Surface Processes, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The main topics addressed in their work cover a diverse range of areas:

Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Navier-Stokes equation solutions
Quantum chaos and dynamical systems

The scientist has contributed to a variety of recent papers including:

Traveling water waves - the ebb and flow of two centuries, 2022, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics
Proof of Modulational Instability of Stokes Waves in Deep Water, 2022, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
Rapidly rotating white dwarfs, 2020, Nonlinearity
Proof of the transverse instability of Stokes waves, 2025, Annals of PDE
Existence of Rotating Stars with Variable Entropy, 2023, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Walter A. Strauss include:

Huy Q. Nguyen
Ryan Creedon
Yilun Wu
Susanna V. Haziot
Juhi Jang

The publication venues where the scientist regularly contributes include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Quarterly of Applied Mathematics
Kinetic and Related Models
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Walter A. Strauss has also authored book publications, including a work published by Mohr Siebeck eBooks.

The scientist has received several honors throughout their career, including:

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)
SIAM Fellow (2009) for investigations of nonlinear waves
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1971)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1971 and 1962)

Best Publications

Existence of solitary waves in higher dimensions

Walter A. Strauss

2224
Citations
Stability theory of solitary waves in the presence of symmetry, II☆

Manoussos Grillakis;Jalal Shatah;Walter Strauss

1615
Citations
Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction

Walter A. Strauss

1411
Citations
Stability of peakons

Adrian Constantin;Walter A. Strauss

1042
Citations
Nonlinear Wave Equations

Walter Strauss

927
Citations
Semi-linear second-order elliptic equations in L1

Haim Brezis;Walter A. Strauss

755
Citations
Nonlinear scattering theory at low energy

Walter A Strauss

685
Citations
Stability and Instability of Solitary Waves of Korteweg-de Vries Type

J. L. Bona;P. E. Souganidis;W. A. Strauss

549
Citations
Exact steady periodic water waves with vorticity

Adrian Constantin;Walter Strauss

493
Citations
Instability of nonlinear bound states

Jalal Shatah;Walter Strauss

469
Citations
Stability of the Camassa-Holm solitons

Adrian Constantin;Walter A. Strauss

430
Citations
Numerical Solution of a Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equation

Walter Strauss;Luis Vazquez

382
Citations
Some non-linear evolution equations

Jacques-Louis Lions;W.A. Strauss

358
Citations
Stability of a class of solitary waves in compressible elastic rods

Adrian Constantin;Walter A. Strauss

289
Citations
Decay and scattering of solutions of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Jeng-Eng Lin;Walter A. Strauss

287
Citations
Singularity formation in a collisionless plasma could occur only at high velocities

Robert T. Glassey;Walter A. Strauss

285
Citations
Pressure beneath a Stokes wave

Adrian Constantin;Walter Strauss

281
Citations
Decay and scattering of solutions of a nonlinear relativistic wave equation

Cathleen S. Morawetz;Walter A. Strauss

275
Citations
On continuity of functions with values in various Banach spaces

Walter A. Strauss

265
Citations
Decay and asymptotics for □u = F(u)☆

Walter A Strauss

263
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Constantin University of Vienna

Robert T. Glassey Indiana University

Yan Guo Brown University

Walter Craig McMaster University

Panagiotis E. Souganidis University of Chicago

Jalal Shatah Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Haim Brezis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Joachim Escher University of Hannover

Claude Bardos Université Paris Cité

Maria J. Esteban Paris Dauphine University

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