OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow is 30. 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.)

Article	Citations
A transient solution for shear flow driven orientation and deformation of a droplet at low Reynolds numbers	77
Editorial Board	74
Study on the flow and heat transfer characteristics inside high-porosity open-cell copper foams: Experimental and numerical explorations	71
Heat transfer characteristics and optimization strategies in supercritical fluid heat exchangers with non-uniform thermal boundaries: A systematic review	66
Study on the influence of baffle height and angle on the performance of coarse powder separator in power plant based on CFD-DPM method	64
Evaporation of high-volatile binary sessile drop: Influence of concentarion	62
DNS vs. LES: Turbulent flow in square duct with heated foil boundary	59
Heat transfer and dynamic deformation in infusion bags during hot water shower sterilization: A numerically efficient two-step CFD multiphase model	57
Heat transfer mechanism of nucleated bubbles on vertical heating surface induced by 2.4 MHz waves in HFE-7100 liquid	54
Editorial Board	52
Robust data-driven turbulence closures for improved heat transfer prediction in complex geometries	48
Numerical analysis of single bubble dynamics and heat transfer in electric field-enhanced nucleate boiling	48
New correlation of heat transfer coefficient for saturated flow boiling in smooth helically coiled tubes	46
Heat sink optimization with response surface methodology for single phase immersion cooling	45
Eddy-resolving Reynolds stress modeling of particle-laden flows using a multiphase Euler–Lagrange approach	41
Performance analysis of gas-assisted nozzle jets using stress-blending eddy simulation turbulence modeling	40
A review of fast unsteady aerodynamic and aeroelastic calculation methods for subsonic aircraft design	39
RANS CFD applied to 2D canonical shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction	39
Thermal analysis and structural optimization of microchannels of bionic dorsal fin structure using multi-objective genetic algorithm	36
Role of coherent structures in the transport equation for the vorticity–temperature correlation	36
Multifactor influence on smoke back-layering length of an upward single-slope tunnel with a water spray system	35
Investigation of vortical structures in the wake of pseudo-random roughness surfaces in hypersonic reacting boundary-layer flows	34
Turbulence statistics analysis of cross flow and heat transfer over an inline tube bundle using DNS	34
A dynamic particle scale-driven interphase force model for water-sand two-phase flow in hydraulic machinery and systems	34
A novel integrated system of photovoltaic panel and water still with photovoltaic cooling and heat storage functions	33

Experimental study of dielectric liquid spray cooling on multi-scale structured surfaces inspired by leaf veins	33
A theoretical model for ingress through turbine rim seals based on physically-observed unsteadiness	32
A novel three-dimensional topology-optimized cold plate design for lithium-ion battery thermal management based on Murray’s law	32
Impact of cylinder diameter and spacing on fluid flow, forces, and heat transfer in tandem cylinder configuration	31
Effects of fin shapes and orientations with cyclic heating and cooling on melting and solidification of PCM-filled closed space	31
Surface roughness influences vortex interactions and jet stability in pitching foils in quiescent flow	30
Asymptotic thermophysical behaviors of near-critical fluid under parameter scaling	30