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45
Citations
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World Ranking
1509
National Ranking
107

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

  • Advances in turbulence

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

  • Zero-Pressure-Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layer

    William K. George;Luciano Castillo

  • The Measurement of Turbulence with the Laser-Doppler Anemometer

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

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

    J. H. Citriniti;W. K. George

  • The decay of homogeneous isotropic turbulence

    William K. George

  • Pressure spectra in turbulent free shear flows

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

  • Locally axisymmetric turbulence

    William K. George;Hussein J. Hussein

  • Turbulence measurements in an axisymmetric buoyant plume

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

  • Experiments on a round turbulent buoyant plume

    Aamir Shabbir;William K. George

  • A theory for turbulent pipe and channel flows

    Martin Wosnik;Luciano Castillo;William K. George

  • Coherent Structures in the Axisymmetric Turbulent Jet Mixing Layer

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

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

    William K. George;John L. Lumley

  • 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

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

    Luciano Castillo;William K. George

  • Recent Advancements Toward the Understanding of Turbulent Boundary Layers

    William K. George

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

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

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

    William K. George;Steven P. Capp

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

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

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

    William K George

  • Processing of Random Signals

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger E. A. Arndt
Roger E. A. Arndt University of Minnesota
Peter Jordan
Peter Jordan University of Poitiers
Robert D. Moser
Robert D. Moser The University of Texas at Austin
Lars Davidson
Lars Davidson Chalmers University of Technology
Fernando F. Grinstein
Fernando F. Grinstein Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard J Goldstein
Richard J Goldstein University of Minnesota
Joseph A. Schetz
Joseph A. Schetz Virginia Tech
Jerry Westerweel
Jerry Westerweel Delft University of Technology
Campbell D. Carter
Campbell D. Carter United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Anjaneyulu Krothapalli
Anjaneyulu Krothapalli Florida State University

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