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William Anderson

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1965
Combustion and flame dynamicsRocket and propulsion systems researchAdvanced Combustion Engine TechnologiesComputational Fluid Dynamics and AerodynamicsEnergetic Materials and Combustion

Publications

305

Citations

4,881

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

61

Publishing since 1965

Research summary
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This researcher's core body of work focuses on combustion instabilities and dynamics in liquid rocket engines, including how flames oscillate and interact in multi-element rocket combustors and gas turbine systems. The publication record also includes some unrelated titles (e.g., on athlete performance testing, nuclear physics, and geomorphology), which appear to be from different authors sharing the same name rather than a coherent part of this research program. Students interested in propulsion, combustion dynamics, and applying nonlinear/complex-systems analysis tools to engineering problems would find the core rocket combustion work most relevant.

Rocket engine combustion instabilityThermoacoustic dynamics in propulsion systemsLiquid rocket injector design and testingNonlinear/dynamical systems analysis of combustion dataGas turbine combustion dynamics

Publication output was high and steady from 2017-2019 (15-18 per year) but dropped sharply after 2020 to about 1 per year, suggesting a significant slowdown in recent research activity as reflected in this record.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently
2017: 16 publications172018: 15 publications182019: 18 publications18192020: 8 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 1 publication222023: 1 publication232024: 1 publication242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Bulletin of the American Physical Society×10
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks×6
  • 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting×4
  • AGUFM×4
  • International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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