2026 William K. George: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	45	1510	1397	107	94	202	9680

William K. George 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 William K. George sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 659+

This scientist: 202 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William K. George 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 William K. George sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

William K. George is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, with significant contributions in related areas such as wind and airflow studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, aerodynamics and acoustics in jet flows, as well as cosmology and gravitation theories.

The scientist's main fields of study include engineering and environmental science, with notable specialization in computational mechanics and environmental engineering. Additional subfields encompass global and planetary change, aerospace engineering, and astronomy and astrophysics.

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Experiments in Fluids
Physics of Fluids
Journal of Fluid Mechanics

William K. George collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Michel Stanislas, Jean-Marc Foucaut, Christophe Cuvier, Jean-Philippe Laval, and T. Gunnar Johansson.

Their recent papers include:

Optimization of a SPIV experiment for derivative moments assessment in a turbulent boundary layer, 2021, Experiments in Fluids
An alternative cosmological model for an expanding universe, 2025, Physics of Fluids
A critical analysis of turbulence dissipation in near-wall flows, based on stereo particle image velocimetry and direct numerical simulation data, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Velocity derivatives in a high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer. Part III: Optimization of an SPIV experiment for derivative moments assessment, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

Velocity measurements in a high-Reynolds-number, momentum-conserving, axisymmetric, turbulent jet

Hussein J. Hussein;Steven P. Capp;William K. George

1476
Citations
Advances in turbulence

William K. George;Roger E. A. Arndt;Stanley Corrsin

612
Citations
Zero-Pressure-Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layer

William K. George;Luciano Castillo

473
Citations
The Measurement of Turbulence with the Laser-Doppler Anemometer

P. Buchhave;W. K. George;J. L. Lumley

425
Citations
Reconstruction of the global velocity field in the axisymmetric mixing layer utilizing the proper orthogonal decomposition

J. H. Citriniti;W. K. George

401
Citations
The decay of homogeneous isotropic turbulence

William K. George

384
Citations
Pressure spectra in turbulent free shear flows

William K. George;Paul D. Beuther;Roger E. A. Arndt

308
Citations
Locally axisymmetric turbulence

William K. George;Hussein J. Hussein

292
Citations
Turbulence measurements in an axisymmetric buoyant plume

William K. George;Ronald L. Alpert;Francesco Tamanini

278
Citations
Experiments on a round turbulent buoyant plume

Aamir Shabbir;William K. George

265
Citations
A theory for turbulent pipe and channel flows

Martin Wosnik;Luciano Castillo;William K. George

245
Citations
Coherent Structures in the Axisymmetric Turbulent Jet Mixing Layer

Mark N. Glauser;Stewart J. Leib;William K. George

230
Citations
THE LASER-DOPPLER VELOCIMETER AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF TURBULENCE

William K. George;John L. Lumley

215
Citations
Downstream evolution of the most energetic modes in a turbulent axisymmetric jet at high Reynolds number. Part 2. The far-field region

Daehan Jung;Stephan Gamard;William K. George

212
Citations
Similarity Analysis for Turbulent Boundary Layer with Pressure Gradient: Outer Flow

Luciano Castillo;William K. George

196
Citations
Recent Advancements Toward the Understanding of Turbulent Boundary Layers

William K. George

185
Citations
A similarity theory for the turbulent plane wall jet without external stream

William K. George;Hans Abrahamsson;J. A. N. Eriksson;Rolf I. Karlsson

183
Citations
A theory for natural convection turbulent boundary layers next to heated vertical surfaces

William K. George;Steven P. Capp

180
Citations
Equilibrium similarity, effects of initial conditions and local Reynolds number on the axisymmetric wake

Peter B. V. Johansson;William K. George;Michael J. Gourlay

179
Citations
Is there a universal log law for turbulent wall-bounded flows?

William K George

163
Citations
Processing of Random Signals

William K. George;Paul D. Beuther;John L. Lumley

142
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Luciano Castillo Purdue University West Lafayette

Mark Glauser Syracuse University

Roger E. A. Arndt University of Minnesota

Peter Jordan University of Poitiers

Lars Davidson Chalmers University of Technology

Robert D. Moser The University of Texas at Austin

Marcus Hultmark Princeton University

Jerry Westerweel Delft University of Technology

Campbell D. Carter United States Air Force Research Laboratory

Anjaneyulu Krothapalli Florida State University

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