Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Fluid Mechanics is 40. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves149
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of microswimmers in channel flow111
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis93
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils90
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit85
Transient deformation of a viscoelastic capsule in a cross-slot microchannel: effects of inertia and membrane viscosity85
Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows: onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments83
Hydrodynamic coupling of a cilia–mucus system in Herschel–Bulkley flows82
Scale-by-scale non-equilibrium with Kolmogorov-like scalings in non-homogeneous stationary turbulence82
Two-dimensional stability analysis of finite-amplitude interfacial gravity waves in a two-layer fluid79
Electrophoretic trajectories of non-uniformly charged particles in viscoelastic fluids: the weak surface charge limit79
Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows72
Scaling and mechanism of the propagation speed of the upstream turbulent front in pipe flow71
Effects of the secondary baroclinic vorticity on the energy cascade in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability68
Numerical study on topological change of viscous fingering induced by a phase separation with Korteweg force66
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble65
Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulence by synthetic jet sheets63
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter59
FLM volume 944 Cover and Front matter56
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter55
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets54
Large-eddy simulations of conical hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over cooled walls via volumetric rescaling method53
Fingering instability of self-similar radial flow of miscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell52
Discontinuous transitions towards vortex condensates in buoyancy-driven rotating turbulence51
Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water50
Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback49
Reduced representations of Rayleigh–Bénard flows via autoencoders49
Laminar flow over I-shaped dual-step cylinders48
Poiseuille flow of a concentrated suspension of squirmers48
Elasto-inertial rectification of oscillatory flow in an elastic tube47
Electromagnetic field effect on a conducting liquid film flowing down an inclined or vertical plane47
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles46
Prediction of energy harvesting efficiency through a wake–foil interaction model for oscillating foil arrays45
Dynamics of rotating helices in a viscous fluid43
Effects of dilatation and turbulence on tangential strain rates in premixed hydrogen and iso-octane flames43
Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning42
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter42
Global drag reduction and local flow statistics in Taylor–Couette turbulence with dilute polymer additives42
Reaction induced interfacial instability of miscible fluids in a channel42
Transition to chaos in a reduced-order model of a shear layer41
Prediction of flow and polymeric stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks40
Linear stability of monopolar vortices over isolated topography40
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation40
Wing sweep effects on laminar separated flows40
Linear dynamics of over-expanded annular supersonic jets40
Global modes of viscous heated jets with real gas effects40
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