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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves145
Turbulence kinetic energy transfers in direct numerical simulation of shock-wave–turbulence interaction in a compression/expansion ramp100
Prediction of energy harvesting efficiency through a wake–foil interaction model for oscillating foil arrays81
Elasto-inertial rectification of oscillatory flow in an elastic tube80
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of microswimmers in channel flow79
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis79
Finite rotating and translating vortex sheets79
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils78
Decay rate of homogeneous isotropic turbulence laden with finite-size particles76
Transient deformation of a viscoelastic capsule in a cross-slot microchannel: effects of inertia and membrane viscosity75
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit73
Hydrodynamic performance and scaling laws for a modelled wave-induced flapping-foil propulsor71
Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows: onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments66
On the analytic explanation of experiments where turbulence vanishes in pipe flow62
Shape of sessile drops at small contact angles62
Principle of fundamental resonance in hypersonic boundary layers: an asymptotic viewpoint62
Scale-by-scale non-equilibrium with Kolmogorov-like scalings in non-homogeneous stationary turbulence57
A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex56
Hydrodynamic coupling of a cilia–mucus system in Herschel–Bulkley flows56
Paradoxical predictions of swirling jets53
Reflectionless wave propagation on shallow water with variable bathymetry and current. Part 253
Electrophoretic trajectories of non-uniformly charged particles in viscoelastic fluids: the weak surface charge limit52
Two-dimensional stability analysis of finite-amplitude interfacial gravity waves in a two-layer fluid51
Effects of the secondary baroclinic vorticity on the energy cascade in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability50
Scaling and mechanism of the propagation speed of the upstream turbulent front in pipe flow50
Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows50
Compressibility effects on statistics and coherent structures of compressible turbulent mixing layers49
The dynamics of impinging plumes from a moving source48
Numerical study on topological change of viscous fingering induced by a phase separation with Korteweg force47
Turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff bodies with smooth and rough undersurfaces47
Separation length scaling for dual-incident shock wave–turbulent boundary layer interactions with different shock wave distances46
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble46
Thermals from finite sources in stable and unstable environments45
Edge-driven collapse of fluid holes45
Fracture patterns in viscoplastic gravity currents45
Steady periodic waves over a planar seabed: a global characterization44
On the role of roughness valleys in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection41
Towards a finite-time singularity of the Navier–Stokes equations. Part 3. Maximal vorticity amplification41
Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water40
Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulence by synthetic jet sheets40
Vortex ring connection to a free surface40
Flow past two rotationally oscillating cylinders40
The impact of source fluctuations in a filling box with interior diffusive mixing39
Scale-similar structures of homogeneous isotropic non-mirror-symmetric turbulence based on the Lagrangian closure theory38
On–off pumping for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow38
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter38
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Gas-sheared falling liquid films beyond the absolute instability limit37
Evolution of convection in a layered porous medium37
Bubble nucleation and jetting inside a millimetric droplet37
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets37
Role of volatility and thermal properties in droplet spreading: a generalisation to Tanner's law37
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter37
Boundary-layer approach to the linear karren instability37
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe36
JFM in the electronic age36
Searching for the log law in open channel flow36
Atomisation of an acoustically levitated droplet: experimental observations of myriad complex phenomena36
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation36
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics36
Log at first sight36
Double-diffusive convection with gravitationally unstable temperature and concentration gradients in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media35
Mechanisms and models of particle drag enhancements in turbulent environments35
Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback35
Predicting convection configurations in coupled fluid–porous systems35
Mean resolvent operator of a statistically steady flow35
Wave turbulence in a rotating channel: numerical implementation and results35
Fingering instability of self-similar radial flow of miscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell35
Large-eddy simulations of conical hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over cooled walls via volumetric rescaling method35
Stokes–Darcy system, small-Darcy-number behaviour and related interfacial conditions34
Dynamics of elongated bubbles in slightly inclined pipes with viscous fluids34
Motion of bulk nanobubbles driven by thermal Marangoni flow34
Discontinuous transitions towards vortex condensates in buoyancy-driven rotating turbulence34
Nucleation effects on cavitation about a sphere34
Investigations on the turbulentnon-turbulent interface in supersonic compressible plate turbulent boundary layer34
Dynamics of a self-propelled compound droplet34
Immiscible capillary flows in non-uniform channels33
Reduced representations of Rayleigh–Bénard flows via autoencoders33
Large-to-small scale frequency modulation analysis in wall-bounded turbulence via visibility networks33
Linear stability of monopolar vortices over isolated topography33
Continuum dynamics of suspensions at low Reynolds number33
A thin-plate approximation for ocean wave interactions with an ice shelf32
Asymptotic theory of a flapping wing of a circular cross-section32
Inertia-gravity waves and geostrophic turbulence32
Dynamics-preserving compression for modal flow analysis32
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 wave32
Poiseuille flow of a concentrated suspension of squirmers32
Laminar flow over I-shaped dual-step cylinders32
Compressibility effects on the secondary instabilities of the circular cylinder wake32
Aerodynamics and fluid–structure interaction of an airfoil with actively controlled flexible leeward surface31
Conditional analysis on extreme wall shear stress and heat flux events in compressible turbulent boundary layers31
Energetics and mixing of thermally driven flows in Hele-Shaw cells31
Inertial focusing in planar pulsatile flows31
Turbulence ingestion noise generation in rotating blades31
Hydroacoustic analysis of a marine propeller using large-eddy simulation and acoustic analogy31
Order–disorder transitions within deformable particle suspensions in planar Poiseuille flow31
Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning31
Water entry of an elastic conical shell31
Effects of dilatation and turbulence on tangential strain rates in premixed hydrogen and iso-octane flames30
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter30
Reaction induced interfacial instability of miscible fluids in a channel30
Inundation, runup and flow velocity of wavemaker generated bores on a planar beach30
Instability of a weakly viscoelastic film flow on an oscillating inclined plane30
Hanging droplets from liquid interfaces30
Consistent lattice Boltzmann model for reactive mixtures30
Global drag reduction and local flow statistics in Taylor–Couette turbulence with dilute polymer additives30
Electromagnetic field effect on a conducting liquid film flowing down an inclined or vertical plane30
Turbulent drag reduction with streamwise-travelling waves in the compressible regime30
Reduction of noise in cold and hot supersonic jets using active flow control guided by a genetic algorithm29
Transition to chaos in a reduced-order model of a shear layer29
Wake transitions behind a cube at low and moderate Reynolds numbers29
A unified theoretical model for spatiotemporal development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov fingers29
Effect of fluid inertial torque on the rotational and orientational dynamics of tiny spheroidal particles in turbulent channel flow29
Global modes of viscous heated jets with real gas effects29
The influence of the shock-to-reshock time on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in reshock29
The interaction of multiple bubbles in a Hele-Shaw channel29
The Rayleigh prolongation factor at small bubble to wall stand-off distances29
A freely suspended robotic swimmer propelled by viscoelastic normal stresses28
Prediction of flow and polymeric stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks28
The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves28
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles28
Wing sweep effects on laminar separated flows28
Evaporation of non-circular droplets28
Shock induced aerobreakup of a droplet28
Direct numerical simulation of supersonic and hypersonic turbulent boundary layers at moderate-high Reynolds numbers and isothermal wall condition28
Contributions of different scales of turbulent motions to the mean wall-shear stress in open channel flows at low-to-moderate Reynolds numbers27
Oscillatory flow around a vertical circular cylinder placed in an open channel: coherent structures, sediment entrainment potential and drag forces27
Impulsive impact of a submerged body27
Droplet evaporation in inert gases27
Two-interface and thin-filament approximation in Hele-Shaw channel flow27
The limits of β-plane turbulence27
Adjoint-based linear sensitivity of a supersonic boundary layer to steady wall blowing–suction/heating–cooling27
Influence of immersed particles on the stability of the liquid–liquid interface in a two-layer channel flow27
Hydrodynamic response of an annular swirling liquid sheet surrounding a forced gas jet27
A shear and elongational decomposition approach of the rate-of-deformation tensor for non-Newtonian flows with mixed kinematics27
Shear flow over a surface containing a groove covered by an incompressible surfactant phase27
The transient spread of a circular liquid jet and hydraulic jump formation27
Transition of solitary waves and undular bore from basin to channel with opposing current27
Generalized Reynolds equation for microscale lubrication between eccentric circular cylinders based on kinetic theory27
Optimising subgrid-scale closures for spectral energy transfer in turbulent flows27
FLM volume 963 Cover and Front matter26
Aerodynamic deformation and breakup of wall-attached droplets in axisymmetric stagnation airflow26
Stratified horizontal convection26
Asymmetry of motion: vortex rings crossing a density gradient26
The onset of filamentation on vorticity interfaces in two-dimensional Euler flows26
Role of streak secondary instabilities on free-stream turbulence-induced transition26
Influence of the gas-phase Lewis number and thermocapillary stress on motion of a slowly evaporating droplet in Stokes flow26
Mechanisms of wake asymmetry and secondary structures behind low aspect-ratio wall-mounted prisms26
Cavitation bubble dynamics inside a droplet suspended in a different host fluid26
Shock attenuation of dense granular media25
Evidence that uniform momentum zones originate from roughness sublayer structure interactions in fully rough channel turbulence25
A decoupled mechanism of interface growth in single-mode hydrodynamic instabilities25
Leakage dynamics of fault zones: experimental and analytical study with application to CO2 storage25
Breaking bubbles across multiple time scales in turbulence25
The effects of surfactants on plunging breakers25
Particle segregation within bidisperse turbidity current evolution25
Optimal growth in hypersonic flows over an inclined cone25
An almost subharmonic instability in the flow past rectangular cylinders25
Characteristic scales during the onset of radiatively driven convection: linear analysis and simulations25
Linear stability theory and molecular simulations of nanofilm dewetting with disjoining pressure, strong liquid–solid slip and thermal fluctuations25
Emergence of long-range correlations and thermal spectra in forced turbulence25
A coherent composite approach for the continuous circular hydraulic jump and vortex structure25
Viscoelastic fluid flow in a slowly varying planar contraction: the role of finite extensibility on the pressure drop25
Cylinder flow and noise control by active base blowing25
Opposing-buoyancy mixed convection through and around arrays of heated cylinders25
Curved detonation equations with analysis and its applications25
Thermal convection in the internally heated sphere24
Emergence of lobed wakes during the sedimentation of spheres in viscoelastic fluids24
Second-order analysis of hypersonic boundary-layer stability24
Weakly nonlinear behaviour of transonic buffet on airfoils24
FLM volume 1001 Cover and Front matter24
Analysis of the choking condition of one-dimensional diabatic flows with wall friction24
Emergent rheotaxis of shape-changing swimmers in Poiseuille flow24
Converging material with two bulges24
On the clustering of low-aspect-ratio oblate spheroids settling in ambient fluid24
The role of double‐layer vortex rings with the local swirl in the rapid transition to turbulent flows in Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with reshock24
Manipulation of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a heavy–light interface via successive shocks24
Anchoring and migration of balloon in REBOA24
The energy cascade as the origin of intense events in small-scale turbulence24
Droplet jumping by modulated electrowetting24
Complex-network analysis of high-frequency combustion instability in a model single-element rocket engine combustor24
FLM volume 999 Cover and Front matter24
New formulations for the mean wall-normal velocity and Reynolds shear stress in a turbulent boundary layer under zero pressure gradient24
Direct numerical simulation of 45° oblique flow past surface-mounted square cylinder24
On the turbulence modelling of waves breaking on a vertical pile24
Mixing enhancement of a compressible jet over a convex wall23
Turbulence and heat transfer on a rotating, heated half soap bubble23
Unsteady convective–diffusive transport in semicircular microchannels with irreversible wall reaction23
The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers23
Fake turbulence23
Capillary lubrication of a spherical particle near a fluid interface23
Turbulent energy transfers in physical and scale spaces at dissipative length scales23
Slow-growth approximation for near-wall patch representation of wall-bounded turbulence23
Scaling analysis for the frequency of Ostwaldian and Newtonian bead-on-fibre flows23
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems23
Experimental study of bubble competition and spike competition in Richtmyer–Meshkov flows23
Leading-edge vortex dynamics on plunging airfoils and wings23
Water entry of cups and disks23
Analysis and modelling of non-local eddy diffusivity for turbulent scalar flux23
Stability and bifurcation of dynamic contact lines in two dimensions23
Attracting dynamical modes of highly elastic fibres settling under gravity in a viscous fluid23
A model for the dissipation rate in linear unsteady flow through porous media23
Understanding the effect of Prandtl number on momentum and scalar mixing rates in neutral and stably stratified flows using gradient field dynamics23
Statistical properties of pressure-Hessian tensor in a turbulent channel flow23
Multipolar spherical and cylindrical vortices23
How does turbulence mix a stratified fluid?23
Near-wake dynamics of a vertical-axis turbine23
Designing vortices in pipe flow with topography-driven Langmuir circulation23
Convective mesoscale turbulence at very low Prandtl numbers23
Robust relation of streamwise velocity autocorrelation in atmospheric surface layers based on an autoregressive moving average model23
Drag reduction utilizing a wall-attached ferrofluid film in turbulent channel flow23
Nested travelling wave structures in elastoinertial turbulence23
Flow topology in the gap and wake of convex curved tandem cylinders23
Stokesian motion of a spherical particle near a right corner made by tangentially moving walls22
Ion emission from nanodroplets undergoing Coulomb explosions: a continuum numerical study22
Mean flow and turbulence in unsteady canopy layers22
Gravity currents from moving sources22
Pair statistics of oblate spheroids settling in a turbulent flow22
Self-similar fault slip in response to fluid injection22
Elastohydrodynamic interactions in soft hydraulic knots22
Spreading of a viscous drop after impact onto a spherical target22
Invariants of the velocity gradient tensor in a spatially developing compressible round jet22
Large mode-2 internal solitary waves in three-layer flows22
Flows with free boundaries and hydrodynamic singularities22
Three-dimensional generative adversarial networks for turbulent flow estimation from wall measurements22
Generalized Lagrangian heterogeneous multiscale modelling of complex fluids22
Tripping effects on model-scale studies of flow over the DARPA SUBOFF22
Generation and characterization of fully developed state in open channel flow22
Learning fluid physics from highly turbulent data using sparse physics-informed discovery of empirical relations (SPIDER)22
Non-locality of mean scalar transport in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability using the macroscopic forcing method22
The reflection of a planar impulsive shock wave at a liquid–gas interface22
Pressure-driven flow through superhydrophobic pipes with general patterns of longitudinal no-shear stripes22
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Learn to flap: foil non-parametric path planning via deep reinforcement learning22
FLM volume 925 Cover and Front matter22
Motion of a confined bubble in a shear-thinning liquid22
Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 2. Highly inertial regimes22
Regime transitions in stratified shear flows: the link between horizontal and inclined ducts22
Effect of inhaled air temperature on mucus dynamics in the proximal airways22
Macroscopic model for generalised Newtonian inertial two-phase flow in porous media22
Universal scaling of mean skin friction in turbulent boundary layers and fully developed pipe and channel flows22
A two-fluid model for immersed granular avalanches with dilatancy effects22
On the near-field interaction of vertically offset turbulent plumes21
Finite-amplitude instability of the buoyancy boundary layer in a thermally stratified medium21
A new propulsion enhancement mechanism in metachronal rowing at intermediate Reynolds numbers21
The double backward-facing step: interaction of multiple separated flow regions21
On the transition to dripping of an inverted liquid film21
Skin-friction reduction using periodic blowing through streamwise slits21
Impact of spanwise effective slope upon rough-wall turbulent channel flow21
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