Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Fluid Mechanics is 42. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
FLM volume 944 Cover and Front matter162
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit134
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble106
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter89
Wave- and potential-driven instabilities in orbital pilot-wave dynamics88
Choking the flow in soft Hele-Shaw cells: the role of elastomer geometry87
Numerical simulations of spatiotemporal instabilities in discontinuous shear-thickening fluids82
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter73
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles70
A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex69
Principle of fundamental resonance in hypersonic boundary layers: an asymptotic viewpoint67
Effects of settling on inertial particle slip velocity statistics in wall-bounded flows65
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis63
Mean resolvent operator of a statistically steady flow63
Turbulent drag reduction with streamwise-travelling waves in the compressible regime61
Viscosity stratification instability in two-layer, generalised Couette–Poiseuille flow61
A diffuse-interface Marangoni instability60
Evaporation of non-circular droplets59
Linear dynamics of over-expanded annular supersonic jets59
A unified theoretical model for spatiotemporal development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov fingers56
Steady periodic waves over a planar seabed: a global characterization54
Compressibility effects on statistics and coherent structures of compressible turbulent mixing layers54
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation52
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils51
Stochastic dynamics of vortex-acoustic lock-in: effects of coloured, multiplicative noise51
FLM volume 1025 Cover and Front matter51
On the analytic explanation of experiments where turbulence vanishes in pipe flow50
Hyperbolic profile of free-surface jets50
Motion of bulk nanobubbles driven by thermal Marangoni flow49
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets49
Asymptotic flow states in turbulent viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow: transition between states and commensurate scale interaction48
Decay rate of homogeneous isotropic turbulence laden with finite-size particles47
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter47
JFM in the electronic age46
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics46
Edge-driven collapse of fluid holes46
The impact of source fluctuations in a filling box with interior diffusive mixing45
Hanging droplets from liquid interfaces45
Shape of sessile drops at small contact angles44
A laboratory study of wave-induced drift under rotation43
Liquid states in horizontal plate-inserted slits43
Attenuating transmitted infragravity waves by a small heaving body42
Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulence by synthetic jet sheets42
Transient and steady convection in two dimensions42
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