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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves150
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of microswimmers in channel flow112
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis98
Transient deformation of a viscoelastic capsule in a cross-slot microchannel: effects of inertia and membrane viscosity93
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit88
Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows: onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments87
Hydrodynamic coupling of a cilia–mucus system in Herschel–Bulkley flows85
Electrophoretic trajectories of non-uniformly charged particles in viscoelastic fluids: the weak surface charge limit84
Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows82
Scaling and mechanism of the propagation speed of the upstream turbulent front in pipe flow80
Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulence by synthetic jet sheets75
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble75
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter74
FLM volume 944 Cover and Front matter73
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter69
Large-eddy simulations of conical hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over cooled walls via volumetric rescaling method65
Discontinuous transitions towards vortex condensates in buoyancy-driven rotating turbulence59
Fingering instability of self-similar radial flow of miscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell59
Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water56
Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback54
Reduced representations of Rayleigh–Bénard flows via autoencoders54
Poiseuille flow of a concentrated suspension of squirmers53
Laminar flow over I-shaped dual-step cylinders52
Elasto-inertial rectification of oscillatory flow in an elastic tube51
Electromagnetic field effect on a conducting liquid film flowing down an inclined or vertical plane51
Dynamics of rotating helices in a viscous fluid50
Effects of dilatation and turbulence on tangential strain rates in premixed hydrogen and iso-octane flames50
Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning48
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter48
Global modes of viscous heated jets with real gas effects46
Transition to chaos in a reduced-order model of a shear layer46
Prediction of flow and polymeric stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks44
Linear stability of monopolar vortices over isolated topography44
Wing sweep effects on laminar separated flows44
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation44
Evaporation of non-circular droplets43
Thermals from finite sources in stable and unstable environments43
Mean resolvent operator of a statistically steady flow42
Scale-similar structures of homogeneous isotropic non-mirror-symmetric turbulence based on the Lagrangian closure theory42
Steady periodic waves over a planar seabed: a global characterization42
Continuum dynamics of suspensions at low Reynolds number42
Gas-sheared falling liquid films beyond the absolute instability limit42
Towards a finite-time singularity of the Navier–Stokes equations. Part 3. Maximal vorticity amplification42
Edge-driven collapse of fluid holes42
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics41
Double-diffusive convection with gravitationally unstable temperature and concentration gradients in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media41
Investigations on the turbulentnon-turbulent interface in supersonic compressible plate turbulent boundary layer40
Asymptotic theory of a flapping wing of a circular cross-section39
The impact of source fluctuations in a filling box with interior diffusive mixing39
JFM in the electronic age39
Turbulent drag reduction with streamwise-travelling waves in the compressible regime39
Decay rate of homogeneous isotropic turbulence laden with finite-size particles39
Aerodynamics and fluid–structure interaction of an airfoil with actively controlled flexible leeward surface38
Dynamics of a self-propelled compound droplet38
Hanging droplets from liquid interfaces38
The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves38
Compressibility effects on statistics and coherent structures of compressible turbulent mixing layers37
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 wave37
The influence of the shock-to-reshock time on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in reshock36
A thin-plate approximation for ocean wave interactions with an ice shelf36
Feigenbaum universality in subcritical Taylor–Couette flow36
Shape of sessile drops at small contact angles36
The interaction of multiple bubbles in a Hele-Shaw channel36
Compressibility effects on the secondary instabilities of the circular cylinder wake36
Liquid states in horizontal plate-inserted slits36
Instability of a weakly viscoelastic film flow on an oscillating inclined plane35
On the analytic explanation of experiments where turbulence vanishes in pipe flow35
Reduction of noise in cold and hot supersonic jets using active flow control guided by a genetic algorithm35
Dynamics-preserving compression for modal flow analysis35
Boundary-layer approach to the linear karren instability35
Energetics and mixing of thermally driven flows in Hele-Shaw cells35
A freely suspended robotic swimmer propelled by viscoelastic normal stresses35
Consistent lattice Boltzmann model for reactive mixtures34
Separation length scaling for dual-incident shock wave–turbulent boundary layer interactions with different shock wave distances34
Effects of settling on inertial particle slip velocity statistics in wall-bounded flows34
Flow past two rotationally oscillating cylinders34
Reflectionless wave propagation on shallow water with variable bathymetry and current. Part 234
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe34
Inundation, runup and flow velocity of wavemaker generated bores on a planar beach34
Dynamics of elongated bubbles in slightly inclined pipes with viscous fluids34
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles33
On–off pumping for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow33
Order–disorder transitions within deformable particle suspensions in planar Poiseuille flow33
A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex33
Linear dynamics of over-expanded annular supersonic jets33
The dynamics of impinging plumes from a moving source33
Effect of fluid inertial torque on the rotational and orientational dynamics of tiny spheroidal particles in turbulent channel flow33
Principle of fundamental resonance in hypersonic boundary layers: an asymptotic viewpoint33
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils33
Nucleation effects on cavitation about a sphere32
Wave turbulence in a rotating channel: numerical implementation and results32
Hydroacoustic analysis of a marine propeller using large-eddy simulation and acoustic analogy32
Conditional analysis on extreme wall shear stress and heat flux events in compressible turbulent boundary layers32
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets32
Oscillatory flow around a vertical circular cylinder placed in an open channel: coherent structures, sediment entrainment potential and drag forces32
Transient and steady convection in two dimensions32
Wave- and potential-driven instabilities in orbital pilot-wave dynamics32
Evolution of convection in a layered porous medium32
Role of volatility and thermal properties in droplet spreading: a generalisation to Tanner's law32
Prediction of energy harvesting efficiency through a wake–foil interaction model for oscillating foil arrays32
Adjoint-based linear sensitivity of a supersonic boundary layer to steady wall blowing–suction/heating–cooling31
Turbulence kinetic energy transfers in direct numerical simulation of shock-wave–turbulence interaction in a compression/expansion ramp31
Numerical study on topological change of viscous fingering induced by a phase separation with Korteweg force31
Numerical simulations of spatiotemporal instabilities in discontinuous shear-thickening fluids31
Mechanisms and models of particle drag enhancements in turbulent environments31
Motion of bulk nanobubbles driven by thermal Marangoni flow31
Choking the flow in soft Hele-Shaw cells: the role of elastomer geometry31
Global drag reduction and local flow statistics in Taylor–Couette turbulence with dilute polymer additives30
Turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff bodies with smooth and rough undersurfaces30
Predicting convection configurations in coupled fluid–porous systems30
Direct numerical simulation of supersonic and hypersonic turbulent boundary layers at moderate-high Reynolds numbers and isothermal wall condition30
Hydrodynamic performance and scaling laws for a modelled wave-induced flapping-foil propulsor30
A laboratory study of wave-induced drift under rotation29
Fracture patterns in viscoplastic gravity currents29
Turbulence ingestion noise generation in rotating blades29
The Rayleigh prolongation factor at small bubble to wall stand-off distances29
Effects of a short splitter plate on the wake characteristics and vortex evolution of flow around a circular cylinder in proximity to a wall29
Log at first sight29
Vortex ring connection to a free surface29
Shock induced aerobreakup of a droplet29
Two-dimensional stability analysis of finite-amplitude interfacial gravity waves in a two-layer fluid29
Scale-by-scale non-equilibrium with Kolmogorov-like scalings in non-homogeneous stationary turbulence29
Searching for the log law in open channel flow29
Water entry of an elastic conical shell29
A unified theoretical model for spatiotemporal development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov fingers29
Atomisation of an acoustically levitated droplet: experimental observations of myriad complex phenomena28
A shear and elongational decomposition approach of the rate-of-deformation tensor for non-Newtonian flows with mixed kinematics28
Shock attenuation of dense granular media28
The onset of filamentation on vorticity interfaces in two-dimensional Euler flows28
Bubble nucleation and jetting inside a millimetric droplet28
FLM volume 963 Cover and Front matter28
Optimal growth in hypersonic flows over an inclined cone28
Transition of solitary waves and undular bore from basin to channel with opposing current28
Aerodynamic deformation and breakup of wall-attached droplets in axisymmetric stagnation airflow28
Opposing-buoyancy mixed convection through and around arrays of heated cylinders28
Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 2. Highly inertial regimes27
Generalized Reynolds equation for microscale lubrication between eccentric circular cylinders based on kinetic theory27
Complex-network analysis of high-frequency combustion instability in a model single-element rocket engine combustor27
Non-locality of mean scalar transport in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability using the macroscopic forcing method27
Asymmetry of motion: vortex rings crossing a density gradient27
Statistical properties of pressure-Hessian tensor in a turbulent channel flow27
Droplet jumping by modulated electrowetting27
The stability of stratified horizontal flows of carbon dioxide at supercritical pressures27
Self-similar fault slip in response to fluid injection27
Generation and characterization of fully developed state in open channel flow27
The effects of surfactants on plunging breakers27
The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers27
Analysis and modelling of non-local eddy diffusivity for turbulent scalar flux27
Measurement and analysis of sub-convective wall pressure fluctuations in turbulent boundary layer flows27
Leakage dynamics of fault zones: experimental and analytical study with application to CO2 storage26
The transient spread of a circular liquid jet and hydraulic jump formation26
Pair statistics of oblate spheroids settling in a turbulent flow26
Manipulation of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a heavy–light interface via successive shocks26
Evidence that uniform momentum zones originate from roughness sublayer structure interactions in fully rough channel turbulence26
Stability and bifurcation of dynamic contact lines in two dimensions26
FLM volume 999 Cover and Front matter26
Emergent rheotaxis of shape-changing swimmers in Poiseuille flow26
Drag reduction utilizing a wall-attached ferrofluid film in turbulent channel flow26
The energy cascade as the origin of intense events in small-scale turbulence26
Particle segregation within bidisperse turbidity current evolution26
How does turbulence mix a stratified fluid?26
Robust relation of streamwise velocity autocorrelation in atmospheric surface layers based on an autoregressive moving average model26
The role of double‐layer vortex rings with the local swirl in the rapid transition to turbulent flows in Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with reshock26
Cylinder flow and noise control by active base blowing26
Convective mesoscale turbulence at very low Prandtl numbers26
Breaking bubbles across multiple time scales in turbulence26
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems26
Emergence of lobed wakes during the sedimentation of spheres in viscoelastic fluids26
Experimental study of bubble competition and spike competition in Richtmyer–Meshkov flows26
FLM volume 1001 Cover and Front matter26
Designing vortices in pipe flow with topography-driven Langmuir circulation26
Droplet evaporation in inert gases25
Regime transitions in stratified shear flows: the link between horizontal and inclined ducts25
Understanding the effect of Prandtl number on momentum and scalar mixing rates in neutral and stably stratified flows using gradient field dynamics25
Mixing enhancement of a compressible jet over a convex wall25
Stratified horizontal convection25
Thermal convection in the internally heated sphere25
Analysis of the choking condition of one-dimensional diabatic flows with wall friction25
Near-wake dynamics of a vertical-axis turbine25
An almost subharmonic instability in the flow past rectangular cylinders25
Attracting dynamical modes of highly elastic fibres settling under gravity in a viscous fluid25
A model for the dissipation rate in linear unsteady flow through porous media25
Macroscopic model for generalised Newtonian inertial two-phase flow in porous media25
Multipolar spherical and cylindrical vortices25
Generalized Lagrangian heterogeneous multiscale modelling of complex fluids25
Optimising subgrid-scale closures for spectral energy transfer in turbulent flows25
A coherent composite approach for the continuous circular hydraulic jump and vortex structure25
Role of streak secondary instabilities on free-stream turbulence-induced transition25
Elastohydrodynamic interactions in soft hydraulic knots25
Nested travelling wave structures in elastoinertial turbulence25
Scaling analysis for the frequency of Ostwaldian and Newtonian bead-on-fibre flows25
Slow-growth approximation for near-wall patch representation of wall-bounded turbulence25
Active control of transition to turbulence in laminar separation bubbles25
Converging material with two bulges25
The limits of β-plane turbulence25
Hydrodynamic response of an annular swirling liquid sheet surrounding a forced gas jet25
Effect of inhaled air temperature on mucus dynamics in the proximal airways24
Unsteady convective–diffusive transport in semicircular microchannels with irreversible wall reaction24
New formulations for the mean wall-normal velocity and Reynolds shear stress in a turbulent boundary layer under zero pressure gradient24
Weakly nonlinear behaviour of transonic buffet on airfoils24
Influence of the gas-phase Lewis number and thermocapillary stress on motion of a slowly evaporating droplet in Stokes flow24
Anchoring and migration of balloon in REBOA24
Tripping effects on model-scale studies of flow over the DARPA SUBOFF24
Influence of immersed particles on the stability of the liquid–liquid interface in a two-layer channel flow24
Curved detonation equations with analysis and its applications24
Shear flow over a surface containing a groove covered by an incompressible surfactant phase24
Mechanisms of wake asymmetry and secondary structures behind low aspect-ratio wall-mounted prisms24
Characteristic scales during the onset of radiatively driven convection: linear analysis and simulations24
Two-interface and thin-filament approximation in Hele-Shaw channel flow24
Second-order analysis of hypersonic boundary-layer stability24
Emergence of long-range correlations and thermal spectra in forced turbulence23
Flow topology in the gap and wake of convex curved tandem cylinders23
Linear stability theory and molecular simulations of nanofilm dewetting with disjoining pressure, strong liquid–solid slip and thermal fluctuations23
Bubble racing in a Hele-Shaw cell23
Learning fluid physics from highly turbulent data using sparse physics-informed discovery of empirical relations (SPIDER)23
The double backward-facing step: interaction of multiple separated flow regions23
FLM volume 925 Cover and Front matter23
The effect of flight on a turbulent jet: coherent structure eduction and resolvent analysis23
Direct numerical simulation of 45° oblique flow past surface-mounted square cylinder23
Capillary lubrication of a spherical particle near a fluid interface23
Viscoelastic fluid flow in a slowly varying planar contraction: the role of finite extensibility on the pressure drop23
On the clustering of low-aspect-ratio oblate spheroids settling in ambient fluid23
A decoupled mechanism of interface growth in single-mode hydrodynamic instabilities23
Analytical models for pressure-driven Stokes flow through superhydrophobic and liquid-infused tubes and annular pipes23
Cavitation bubble dynamics inside a droplet suspended in a different host fluid23
Leading-edge vortex dynamics on plunging airfoils and wings23
Spreading of a viscous drop after impact onto a spherical target23
Water entry of cups and disks23
Fake turbulence23
On the turbulence modelling of waves breaking on a vertical pile23
The flow within the head of a gravity current23
On the near-field interaction of vertically offset turbulent plumes23
Turbulent energy transfers in physical and scale spaces at dissipative length scales23
Universal scaling of mean skin friction in turbulent boundary layers and fully developed pipe and channel flows22
On the relationship between manipulated inter-scale phase and energy-efficient turbulent drag reduction22
Vorticity forces of coherent structures on the NACA0012 aerofoil22
Bubble departure and sliding in high-pressure flow boiling of water22
Buoyancy effects on film boiling heat transfer from a sphere at low velocities22
Analytical bounds on the heat transport in internally heated convection22
The nascent coffee ring with arbitrary droplet contact set: an asymptotic analysis22
Quasi-steady shock refraction phenomenon at a diffusive fast–slow interface22
Short-wavelength instabilities in a finite-amplitude plane inertial wave22
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The effect of side walls on the stability of falling films22
The reflection of a planar impulsive shock wave at a liquid–gas interface22
The dispersive potential-vorticity dynamics of coastal outflows22
Stokesian motion of a spherical particle near a right corner made by tangentially moving walls22
Flows with free boundaries and hydrodynamic singularities22
Invariants of the velocity gradient tensor in a spatially developing compressible round jet22
Experimental investigation of the structure of plane turbulent wall jets. Part 1. Spectral analysis22
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