Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Fluid Mechanics is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
FLM volume 944 Cover and Front matter108
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit103
Hydrodynamic coupling of a cilia–mucus system in Herschel–Bulkley flows101
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble94
Scaling and mechanism of the propagation speed of the upstream turbulent front in pipe flow92
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter89
Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulence by synthetic jet sheets80
Wave- and potential-driven instabilities in orbital pilot-wave dynamics78
Choking the flow in soft Hele-Shaw cells: the role of elastomer geometry77
Numerical simulations of spatiotemporal instabilities in discontinuous shear-thickening fluids76
Motion of bulk nanobubbles driven by thermal Marangoni flow73
Role of volatility and thermal properties in droplet spreading: a generalisation to Tanner's law69
Order–disorder transitions within deformable particle suspensions in planar Poiseuille flow67
Wave turbulence in a rotating channel: numerical implementation and results64
Prediction of energy harvesting efficiency through a wake–foil interaction model for oscillating foil arrays64
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter60
Fingering instability of self-similar radial flow of miscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell58
Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water56
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils55
On–off pumping for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow55
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles55
A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex52
Principle of fundamental resonance in hypersonic boundary layers: an asymptotic viewpoint50
Linear dynamics of over-expanded annular supersonic jets50
Laminar flow over I-shaped dual-step cylinders50
Searching for the log law in open channel flow49
Scale-by-scale non-equilibrium with Kolmogorov-like scalings in non-homogeneous stationary turbulence49
Transient deformation of a viscoelastic capsule in a cross-slot microchannel: effects of inertia and membrane viscosity49
The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves48
Hydrodynamic performance and scaling laws for a modelled wave-induced flapping-foil propulsor48
Electromagnetic field effect on a conducting liquid film flowing down an inclined or vertical plane47
Discontinuous transitions towards vortex condensates in buoyancy-driven rotating turbulence47
Atomisation of an acoustically levitated droplet: experimental observations of myriad complex phenomena46
Dynamics of elongated bubbles in slightly inclined pipes with viscous fluids46
The dynamics of impinging plumes from a moving source45
Double-diffusive convection with gravitationally unstable temperature and concentration gradients in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media44
Reduced representations of Rayleigh–Bénard flows via autoencoders44
Two-dimensional stability analysis of finite-amplitude interfacial gravity waves in a two-layer fluid44
Turbulence ingestion noise generation in rotating blades44
Energetics and mixing of thermally driven flows in Hele-Shaw cells43
Predicting convection configurations in coupled fluid–porous systems43
Microscopic salt exclusion dynamics of directional freezing in brine43
Steady periodic waves over a planar seabed: a global characterization43
An investigation of the secondary load cycle associated with wave scattering in severe wave–cylinder interactions42
Dynamics of a self-propelled compound droplet42
Shape dynamics of nearly spherical, multicomponent vesicles under shear flow42
Compressibility effects on statistics and coherent structures of compressible turbulent mixing layers41
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe41
Adjoint-based linear sensitivity of a supersonic boundary layer to steady wall blowing–suction/heating–cooling40
Investigations on the turbulentnon-turbulent interface in supersonic compressible plate turbulent boundary layer40
Direct numerical simulation of supersonic and hypersonic turbulent boundary layers at moderate-high Reynolds numbers and isothermal wall condition39
A unified theoretical model for spatiotemporal development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov fingers39
Flow past two rotationally oscillating cylinders39
Bubble nucleation and jetting inside a millimetric droplet39
Dynamics-preserving compression for modal flow analysis38
Turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff bodies with smooth and rough undersurfaces38
Turbulence kinetic energy transfers in direct numerical simulation of shock-wave–turbulence interaction in a compression/expansion ramp38
Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning38
Optimal body force for heat transfer in turbulent vertical heated pipe flow37
A thin-plate approximation for ocean wave interactions with an ice shelf37
Turbulent drag reduction with streamwise-travelling waves in the compressible regime37
Reflectionless wave propagation on shallow water with variable bathymetry and current. Part 237
Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows: onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments37
Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows37
Effects of settling on inertial particle slip velocity statistics in wall-bounded flows37
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis37
Aerodynamics and fluid–structure interaction of an airfoil with actively controlled flexible leeward surface37
Global modes of viscous heated jets with real gas effects36
Boundary-layer approach to the linear karren instability36
Transition to chaos in a reduced-order model of a shear layer36
Prediction of flow and polymeric stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks36
Feigenbaum universality in subcritical Taylor–Couette flow36
Numerical study on the interaction between a shock wave and porous foam and the mitigation mechanism of porous foam filling a straight tube on a blast wave35
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter35
Decay rate of homogeneous isotropic turbulence laden with finite-size particles35
Evaporation of non-circular droplets35
Effects of dilatation and turbulence on tangential strain rates in premixed hydrogen and iso-octane flames35
Thermals from finite sources in stable and unstable environments34
Edge-driven collapse of fluid holes34
Mean resolvent operator of a statistically steady flow34
Gas-sheared falling liquid films beyond the absolute instability limit34
Towards a finite-time singularity of the Navier–Stokes equations. Part 3. Maximal vorticity amplification34
Continuum dynamics of suspensions at low Reynolds number34
Hanging droplets from liquid interfaces33
The interaction of multiple bubbles in a Hele-Shaw channel33
Asymptotic theory of a flapping wing of a circular cross-section33
Liquid states in horizontal plate-inserted slits33
The influence of the shock-to-reshock time on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in reshock33
JFM in the electronic age33
Shape of sessile drops at small contact angles33
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics33
The impact of source fluctuations in a filling box with interior diffusive mixing33
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets32
Effects of a short splitter plate on the wake characteristics and vortex evolution of flow around a circular cylinder in proximity to a wall32
Attenuating transmitted infragravity waves by a small heaving body32
Vortex ring connection to a free surface32
A laboratory study of wave-induced drift under rotation32
Compressibility effects on the secondary instabilities of the circular cylinder wake31
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation31
Separation length scaling for dual-incident shock wave–turbulent boundary layer interactions with different shock wave distances31
Dynamics of rotating helices in a viscous fluid31
Nucleation effects on cavitation about a sphere31
Stochastic dynamics of vortex-acoustic lock-in: effects of coloured, multiplicative noise31
Oscillatory flow around a vertical circular cylinder placed in an open channel: coherent structures, sediment entrainment potential and drag forces31
Large-eddy simulations of conical hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over cooled walls via volumetric rescaling method31
Reduction of noise in cold and hot supersonic jets using active flow control guided by a genetic algorithm31
Evolution of convection in a layered porous medium31
Hyperbolic profile of free-surface jets30
Plate induced tones in installed supersonic jets30
Mechanisms and models of particle drag enhancements in turbulent environments30
Fracture patterns in viscoplastic gravity currents30
Electrophoretic trajectories of non-uniformly charged particles in viscoelastic fluids: the weak surface charge limit30
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of microswimmers in channel flow30
On the analytic explanation of experiments where turbulence vanishes in pipe flow30
Linear stability of monopolar vortices over isolated topography30
Poiseuille flow of a concentrated suspension of squirmers30
Effect of fluid inertial torque on the rotational and orientational dynamics of tiny spheroidal particles in turbulent channel flow29
Instability of a weakly viscoelastic film flow on an oscillating inclined plane29
Conditional analysis on extreme wall shear stress and heat flux events in compressible turbulent boundary layers29
Water entry of an elastic conical shell29
Log at first sight29
The Rayleigh prolongation factor at small bubble to wall stand-off distances29
A freely suspended robotic swimmer propelled by viscoelastic normal stresses29
Global drag reduction and local flow statistics in Taylor–Couette turbulence with dilute polymer additives29
Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback29
Elasto-inertial rectification of oscillatory flow in an elastic tube29
Wing sweep effects on laminar separated flows29
Numerical study on topological change of viscous fingering induced by a phase separation with Korteweg force29
Inundation, runup and flow velocity of wavemaker generated bores on a planar beach29
Hydroacoustic analysis of a marine propeller using large-eddy simulation and acoustic analogy29
The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves29
Transient and steady convection in two dimensions29
Consistent lattice Boltzmann model for reactive mixtures29
Evidence that uniform momentum zones originate from roughness sublayer structure interactions in fully rough channel turbulence28
Influence of the gas-phase Lewis number and thermocapillary stress on motion of a slowly evaporating droplet in Stokes flow28
Influence of immersed particles on the stability of the liquid–liquid interface in a two-layer channel flow28
An almost subharmonic instability in the flow past rectangular cylinders28
FLM volume 1001 Cover and Front matter28
FLM volume 999 Cover and Front matter28
Viscoelastic fluid flow in a slowly varying planar contraction: the role of finite extensibility on the pressure drop28
Converging material with two bulges28
Two-interface and thin-filament approximation in Hele-Shaw channel flow28
A coherent composite approach for the continuous circular hydraulic jump and vortex structure28
Linear stability theory and molecular simulations of nanofilm dewetting with disjoining pressure, strong liquid–solid slip and thermal fluctuations28
Spreading of a viscous drop after impact onto a spherical target28
Shock attenuation of dense granular media28
Second-order analysis of hypersonic boundary-layer stability28
Hydrodynamic response of an annular swirling liquid sheet surrounding a forced gas jet28
The limits of β-plane turbulence28
FLM volume 963 Cover and Front matter28
How does turbulence mix a stratified fluid?27
The transient spread of a circular liquid jet and hydraulic jump formation27
Measurement and analysis of sub-convective wall pressure fluctuations in turbulent boundary layer flows27
Manipulation of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a heavy–light interface via successive shocks27
Optimal growth in hypersonic flows over an inclined cone27
The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers27
Asymmetry of motion: vortex rings crossing a density gradient27
Generalized Reynolds equation for microscale lubrication between eccentric circular cylinders based on kinetic theory27
Statistical properties of pressure-Hessian tensor in a turbulent channel flow27
The stability of stratified horizontal flows of carbon dioxide at supercritical pressures27
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems27
Thermal convection in the internally heated sphere27
Role of streak secondary instabilities on free-stream turbulence-induced transition27
Pair statistics of oblate spheroids settling in a turbulent flow27
Droplet jumping by modulated electrowetting27
The onset of filamentation on vorticity interfaces in two-dimensional Euler flows27
Flow topology in the gap and wake of convex curved tandem cylinders26
Slow-growth approximation for near-wall patch representation of wall-bounded turbulence26
Robust relation of streamwise velocity autocorrelation in atmospheric surface layers based on an autoregressive moving average model26
Convective mesoscale turbulence at very low Prandtl numbers26
A model for the dissipation rate in linear unsteady flow through porous media26
Turbulent energy transfers in physical and scale spaces at dissipative length scales26
Attracting dynamical modes of highly elastic fibres settling under gravity in a viscous fluid26
A shear and elongational decomposition approach of the rate-of-deformation tensor for non-Newtonian flows with mixed kinematics26
Complex-network analysis of high-frequency combustion instability in a model single-element rocket engine combustor26
Active control of transition to turbulence in laminar separation bubbles26
Effect of inhaled air temperature on mucus dynamics in the proximal airways26
Understanding the effect of Prandtl number on momentum and scalar mixing rates in neutral and stably stratified flows using gradient field dynamics26
Experimental study of bubble competition and spike competition in Richtmyer–Meshkov flows26
Elastohydrodynamic interactions in soft hydraulic knots26
Coupled dynamics of wall pressure and transpiration, with implications for the modelling of tailored surfaces and turbulent drag reduction26
Generalized Lagrangian heterogeneous multiscale modelling of complex fluids26
Emergence of long-range correlations and thermal spectra in forced turbulence26
On the clustering of low-aspect-ratio oblate spheroids settling in ambient fluid26
Multipolar spherical and cylindrical vortices26
Optimising subgrid-scale closures for spectral energy transfer in turbulent flows26
Regime transitions in stratified shear flows: the link between horizontal and inclined ducts26
Particle segregation within bidisperse turbidity current evolution26
Non-locality of mean scalar transport in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability using the macroscopic forcing method26
Cavitation bubble dynamics inside a droplet suspended in a different host fluid25
Aerosol deposition in mucus-lined ciliated airways25
Droplet evaporation in inert gases25
Aerodynamic deformation and breakup of wall-attached droplets in axisymmetric stagnation airflow25
Generation and characterization of fully developed state in open channel flow25
Mechanisms of wake asymmetry and secondary structures behind low aspect-ratio wall-mounted prisms25
Stratified horizontal convection25
The effects of surfactants on plunging breakers25
Drag reduction utilizing a wall-attached ferrofluid film in turbulent channel flow25
Leading-edge vortex dynamics on plunging airfoils and wings25
Breaking bubbles across multiple time scales in turbulence25
Mixing enhancement of a compressible jet over a convex wall25
Bubble racing in a Hele-Shaw cell24
Near-wake dynamics of a vertical-axis turbine24
Analysis and modelling of non-local eddy diffusivity for turbulent scalar flux24
The role of double‐layer vortex rings with the local swirl in the rapid transition to turbulent flows in Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with reshock24
Emergence of lobed wakes during the sedimentation of spheres in viscoelastic fluids24
Scaling analysis for the frequency of Ostwaldian and Newtonian bead-on-fibre flows24
The energy cascade as the origin of intense events in small-scale turbulence24
Nested travelling wave structures in elastoinertial turbulence24
Scaling analysis and self-similarity near breakup of elasto-viscoplastic liquid threads under creeping flow24
Analysis of the choking condition of one-dimensional diabatic flows with wall friction24
Fake turbulence24
Leakage dynamics of fault zones: experimental and analytical study with application to CO2 storage24
Emergent rheotaxis of shape-changing swimmers in Poiseuille flow24
Opposing-buoyancy mixed convection through and around arrays of heated cylinders24
On the turbulence modelling of waves breaking on a vertical pile24
Aquatic locomotion due to a flexible foil flapping in a perfect fluid23
Weakly nonlinear behaviour of transonic buffet on airfoils23
Shear flow over a surface containing a groove covered by an incompressible surfactant phase23
Multi-scale method for the solution of the concentration distribution in a two-layered channel flow23
Macroscopic model for generalised Newtonian inertial two-phase flow in porous media23
A decoupled mechanism of interface growth in single-mode hydrodynamic instabilities23
The effect of side walls on the stability of falling films23
Onset of spontaneous beating and whirling in the follower force model of an active filament – ERRATUM23
Water entry of cups and disks23
Gravity current energetics and particle suspension23
Stability and bifurcation of dynamic contact lines in two dimensions23
Direct numerical simulation of 45° oblique flow past surface-mounted square cylinder23
Unsteady convective–diffusive transport in semicircular microchannels with irreversible wall reaction23
Transition of solitary waves and undular bore from basin to channel with opposing current23
Tripping effects on model-scale studies of flow over the DARPA SUBOFF23
Quasi-steady shock refraction phenomenon at a diffusive fast–slow interface23
Mechanical power from thermocapillarity on superhydrophobic surfaces23
Cylinder flow and noise control by active base blowing23
Curved detonation equations with analysis and its applications23
Capillary lubrication of a spherical particle near a fluid interface23
New formulations for the mean wall-normal velocity and Reynolds shear stress in a turbulent boundary layer under zero pressure gradient23
Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 2. Highly inertial regimes23
Learning fluid physics from highly turbulent data using sparse physics-informed discovery of empirical relations (SPIDER)23
Professor John Stewart Turner 11 January 1930 – 3 July 202223
Scaling law of structure function of Richtmyer–Meshkov turbulence23
The dispersive potential-vorticity dynamics of coastal outflows23
On the near-field interaction of vertically offset turbulent plumes23
Characteristic scales during the onset of radiatively driven convection: linear analysis and simulations23
Reflection of a rightward-moving shock wave over a steady oblique shock with post-formed expansion wave22
Evaporation of acoustically levitated bicomponent droplets: mass and heat transfer characteristics22
Vorticity forces of coherent structures on the NACA0012 aerofoil22
Causality analysis of large-scale structures in the flow around a wall-mounted square cylinder22
Exact coherent structures in pipe flow in the presence of wall transpiration22
Slowing down convective instabilities in corrugated Couette–Poiseuille flow22
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