OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is 15. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	384
Fluid Dynamics of Axial Turbomachinery: Blade- and Stage-Level Simulations and Models	337
The Influence of Boundaries on Gravity Currents and Thin Films: Drainage, Confinement, Convergence, and Deformation Effects	225
Bubble Plumes in Nature	135
Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow	103
Flow Mechanics in Ablative Thermal Protection Systems	100
Continuum and Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Hydrodynamics of Colloids Straddling a Fluid Interface	98
Gas Microfilms in Droplet Dynamics: When Do Drops Bounce?	97
New Insights into Turbulent Spots	92
A Perspective on the State of Aerospace Computational Fluid Dynamics Technology	92
Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard Convection	83
Particle Rafts and Armored Droplets	77
Thermoacoustic Instability in Combustors	68
Coalescence Dynamics	68
Evaporation of Sessile Droplets	66
Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions	66
Recent Developments in Theories of Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Turbulence	64
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Clogging of Noncohesive Suspension Flows	48
Fluid-Elastic Interactions Near Contact at Low Reynolds Number	44
The Dynamics of Jupiter's and Saturn's Weather Layers: A Synthesis After Cassini and Juno	44
Linear Flow Analysis Inspired by Mathematical Methods from Quantum Mechanics	42
Vortices and Forces in Biological Flight: Insects, Birds, and Bats	39
Nonideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics of Dense Vapors and Supercritical Fluids	37
Fundamental Fluid Dynamics Challenges in Inkjet Printing	34

Submesoscale Dynamics in the Upper Ocean	34
Self-Propulsion of Chemically Active Droplets	34
Statistical Models for the Dynamics of Heavy Particles in Turbulence	33
Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Its Variants	30
Sharp Interface Methods for Simulation and Analysis of Free Surface Flows with Singularities: Breakup and Coalescence	30
Learning Nonlinear Reduced Models from Data with Operator Inference	29
Molecular Mechanics of Liquid and Gas Slip Flow	27
Fluid Dynamics of Airtanker Firefighting	26
Flow Computation Pioneer Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974)	26
The Early Days and Rise of Turbulence Simulation	24
Geometric Approaches to Lagrangian Averaging	22
Turbulence from an Observer Perspective	22
Fluid Dynamics of Polar Vortices on Earth, Mars, and Titan	19
Motion in Stratified Fluids	19
Large-Scale Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction in the Earth's Extratropical Atmosphere	18
Flood Inundation Prediction	17
Freezing and Capillarity	17
Elasto-Inertial Turbulence	16
Deformation and Breakup of Bubbles and Drops in Turbulence	15
FLEET Velocimetry for Aerodynamics	15
Particle-Laden Turbulence: Progress and Perspectives	15