Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Fluid Mechanics is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble189
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter145
Wave- and potential-driven instabilities in orbital pilot-wave dynamics112
Choking the flow in soft Hele-Shaw cells: the role of elastomer geometry92
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter91
A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex81
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles81
Mean resolvent operator of a statistically steady flow75
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation73
Stochastic dynamics of vortex-acoustic lock-in: effects of coloured, multiplicative noise71
FLM volume 1025 Cover and Front matter71
Hyperbolic profile of free-surface jets71
On the analytic explanation of experiments where turbulence vanishes in pipe flow70
Motion of bulk nanobubbles driven by thermal Marangoni flow69
Decay rate of homogeneous isotropic turbulence laden with finite-size particles65
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics65
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter65
Edge-driven collapse of fluid holes65
JFM in the electronic age64
Liquid states in horizontal plate-inserted slits61
Attenuating transmitted infragravity waves by a small heaving body60
Dynamics of elongated bubbles in slightly inclined pipes with viscous fluids59
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of microswimmers in channel flow57
Fingering instability of self-similar radial flow of miscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell54
Continuum dynamics of suspensions at low Reynolds number53
A thin-plate approximation for ocean wave interactions with an ice shelf53
Order–disorder transitions within deformable particle suspensions in planar Poiseuille flow52
Boundary-layer approach to the linear karren instability51
The interaction of multiple bubbles in a Hele-Shaw channel51
Dynamics of rotating helices in a viscous fluid51
Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback51
Electromagnetic field effect on a conducting liquid film flowing down an inclined or vertical plane51
Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows: onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments50
Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows49
Prediction of flow and polymeric stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks49
Ill posedness in shallow multi-phase debris flow models – CORRIGENDUM47
Transient deformation of a viscoelastic capsule in a cross-slot microchannel: effects of inertia and membrane viscosity47
Dynamics-preserving compression for modal flow analysis47
Scaling and mechanism of the propagation speed of the upstream turbulent front in pipe flow47
Scale-by-scale non-equilibrium with Kolmogorov-like scalings in non-homogeneous stationary turbulence46
Thermals from finite sources in stable and unstable environments45
Flow past two rotationally oscillating cylinders45
Towards a finite-time singularity of the Navier–Stokes equations. Part 3. Maximal vorticity amplification44
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe44
Compressibility effects on the secondary instabilities of the circular cylinder wake44
Optimal body force for heat transfer in turbulent vertical heated pipe flow43
Hydrodynamic performance and scaling laws for a modelled wave-induced flapping-foil propulsor43
Wave turbulence in a rotating channel: numerical implementation and results43
Log at first sight42
Feigenbaum universality in subcritical Taylor–Couette flow42
Searching for the log law in open channel flow42
Wave attenuation in drifting sea ice: a mechanistic model for observed decay profiles42
Transient and steady convection in two dimensions42
The influence of the shock-to-reshock time on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in reshock41
Investigations on the turbulentnon-turbulent interface in supersonic compressible plate turbulent boundary layer41
Prediction of energy harvesting efficiency through a wake–foil interaction model for oscillating foil arrays41
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils41
Atomisation of an acoustically levitated droplet: experimental observations of myriad complex phenomena41
Predicting convection configurations in coupled fluid–porous systems41
Numerical simulations of spatiotemporal instabilities in discontinuous shear-thickening fluids41
On–off pumping for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow40
Asymptotic flow states in turbulent viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow: transition between states and commensurate scale interaction40
First-order buoyancy correction of modal instabilities in stratified boundary layers40
Stability of high-pressure gaseous detonation: impact of molecular volume and attraction forces40
Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water40
Dynamics of a self-propelled compound droplet39
A unified theoretical model for spatiotemporal development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov fingers39
Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning38
Linear dynamics of over-expanded annular supersonic jets38
Turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff bodies with smooth and rough undersurfaces38
Hanging droplets from liquid interfaces38
Gas-sheared falling liquid films beyond the absolute instability limit37
Mechanisms and models of particle drag enhancements in turbulent environments37
Poiseuille flow of a concentrated suspension of squirmers37
Wing sweep effects on laminar separated flows37
Oscillatory flow around a vertical circular cylinder placed in an open channel: coherent structures, sediment entrainment potential and drag forces37
Turbulent drag reduction with streamwise-travelling waves in the compressible regime37
Conditional analysis on extreme wall shear stress and heat flux events in compressible turbulent boundary layers37
Shape of sessile drops at small contact angles37
The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves36
Cavitation bubble collapse near a wall: a numerical study on a bubble initially generated by laser36
Instability of a weakly viscoelastic film flow on an oscillating inclined plane36
Steady periodic waves over a planar seabed: a global characterization36
Turbulence ingestion noise generation in rotating blades36
Role of volatility and thermal properties in droplet spreading: a generalisation to Tanner's law36
Hydrodynamic coupling of a cilia–mucus system in Herschel–Bulkley flows36
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit36
Evaporation of non-circular droplets36
Effects of dilatation and turbulence on tangential strain rates in premixed hydrogen and iso-octane flames35
The dynamics of impinging plumes from a moving source35
Principle of fundamental resonance in hypersonic boundary layers: an asymptotic viewpoint35
A laboratory study of wave-induced drift under rotation35
Reduced representations of Rayleigh–Bénard flows via autoencoders35
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis35
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets35
Electrophoretic trajectories of non-uniformly charged particles in viscoelastic fluids: the weak surface charge limit35
Inundation, runup and flow velocity of wavemaker generated bores on a planar beach35
Double-diffusive convection with gravitationally unstable temperature and concentration gradients in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media35
Linear stability of monopolar vortices over isolated topography35
Global drag reduction and local flow statistics in Taylor–Couette turbulence with dilute polymer additives35
The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves34
Nucleation effects on cavitation about a sphere34
Compressibility effects on statistics and coherent structures of compressible turbulent mixing layers34
Separation length scaling for dual-incident shock wave–turbulent boundary layer interactions with different shock wave distances34
Hydroacoustic analysis of a marine propeller using large-eddy simulation and acoustic analogy34
Large-eddy simulations of conical hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over cooled walls via volumetric rescaling method34
Aerodynamics and fluid–structure interaction of an airfoil with actively controlled flexible leeward surface34
Effects of settling on inertial particle slip velocity statistics in wall-bounded flows34
Reduction of noise in cold and hot supersonic jets using active flow control guided by a genetic algorithm34
Water entry of an elastic conical shell34
Effects of a short splitter plate on the wake characteristics and vortex evolution of flow around a circular cylinder in proximity to a wall34
Elasto-inertial rectification of oscillatory flow in an elastic tube33
Effect of fluid inertial torque on the rotational and orientational dynamics of tiny spheroidal particles in turbulent channel flow33
Scaling law for ventilation of a near-liquid-surface bubble induced by Rayleigh–Taylor instability33
Local and global bifurcations to large-scale oblique patterns in inclined layer convection33
Oscillatory flows in three-dimensional deformable microchannels33
Linear and nonlinear interactions between stationary cross-flow instabilities and a smooth surface hump33
Structure of microlayer at water pool boiling for various bubble growth rates33
Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow in a flexible pipe with imposed standing-wave vibration33
Bounds on dissipation in three-dimensional planar shear flows: reduction to two-dimensional problems33
Bubble nucleation and jetting inside a millimetric droplet33
A classification of mode-1 internal solitary waves in a three-layer fluid33
Buoyant variable viscosity fluid flow and instability in a vertical porous slab with imperfectly conducting boundaries33
A laboratory experiment and procedure for deterministic validation of numerical wave models33
Mitigating adjoint chaos in wall turbulence32
On the algebraic stretching dynamics of variable-density mixing in shock–bubble interaction32
Shape dynamics of nearly spherical, multicomponent vesicles under shear flow32
The destabilisation of shear layers by asymmetric confinement and stratification32
Hydrodynamic properties of a flexible pipe in bidirectionally sheared flows undergoing vortex-induced vibration32
Two-dimensional turbulence over topography of varying roughness32
Viscosity stratification instability in two-layer, generalised Couette–Poiseuille flow32
Liquid metal slug actuated by an unsteady magnetic field32
Flow structure in fully developed open-channel flow over a mussel bed32
Self-similar pinch-off in surfactant-laden flows in a capillary tube32
Plate induced tones in installed supersonic jets32
Influence of relaxation time on the two-dimensional Kelvin–Helmholtz instability under dual-mode perturbations32
Experimental measurement of the Prandtl–Meyer function in non-ideal supersonic flows31
An apparent slip model for non-Newtonian liquid-infused microchannels31
An investigation of the secondary load cycle associated with wave scattering in severe wave–cylinder interactions31
Microscopic salt exclusion dynamics of directional freezing in brine31
Energy, enstrophy and helicity transfers in polymeric turbulence31
A diffuse-interface Marangoni instability31
Stochastic modelling and upscaling of hydrodynamic transport in geological fractures31
Collective versus individual dispersion dynamics: vortex-ring modification across suspensions and polymer solutions31
FLM volume 963 Cover and Front matter30
Modelling droplet–particle interactions on solid surfaces by coupling the lattice Boltzmann and discrete element methods30
Second-order analysis of hypersonic boundary-layer stability30
Laminar flow over I-shaped dual-step cylinders30
Emptying bottles filled with suspensions30
FLM volume 999 Cover and Front matter30
Adjoint-based linear sensitivity of a supersonic boundary layer to steady wall blowing–suction/heating–cooling30
How does turbulence mix a stratified fluid?29
Influence of immersed particles on the stability of the liquid–liquid interface in a two-layer channel flow29
Curved detonation equations with analysis and its applications29
Drag reduction utilizing a wall-attached ferrofluid film in turbulent channel flow29
Asymmetry of motion: vortex rings crossing a density gradient29
FLM volume 1001 Cover and Front matter29
Non-locality of mean scalar transport in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability using the macroscopic forcing method29
Generalized Reynolds equation for microscale lubrication between eccentric circular cylinders based on kinetic theory29
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems29
The limits of β-plane turbulence29
Aerosol deposition in mucus-lined ciliated airways29
The onset of filamentation on vorticity interfaces in two-dimensional Euler flows28
Effect of orifice geometry on bubble dynamics and induced flow structures in quiescent fluids28
Mechanisms of wake asymmetry and secondary structures behind low aspect-ratio wall-mounted prisms28
Linear stability theory and molecular simulations of nanofilm dewetting with disjoining pressure, strong liquid–solid slip and thermal fluctuations28
Aquatic locomotion due to a flexible foil flapping in a perfect fluid28
An almost subharmonic instability in the flow past rectangular cylinders28
Experimental study of bubble competition and spike competition in Richtmyer–Meshkov flows28
Flow topology in the gap and wake of convex curved tandem cylinders28
Slow-growth approximation for near-wall patch representation of wall-bounded turbulence28
Optimising subgrid-scale closures for spectral energy transfer in turbulent flows28
Mixing enhancement of a compressible jet over a convex wall28
Effect of inhaled air temperature on mucus dynamics in the proximal airways28
Attracting dynamical modes of highly elastic fibres settling under gravity in a viscous fluid28
Pair statistics of oblate spheroids settling in a turbulent flow27
Scaling analysis for the frequency of Ostwaldian and Newtonian bead-on-fibre flows27
Opposing-buoyancy mixed convection through and around arrays of heated cylinders27
A decoupled mechanism of interface growth in single-mode hydrodynamic instabilities27
Shock attenuation of dense granular media27
Fake turbulence27
Two-interface and thin-filament approximation in Hele-Shaw channel flow27
Breaking bubbles across multiple time scales in turbulence27
Solute dispersion in pulsatile Casson fluid flow with exchange between phases using the extended Gill’s approach27
A model for the dissipation rate in linear unsteady flow through porous media27
Transition of solitary waves and undular bore from basin to channel with opposing current27
Thin-film flow due to an asymmetric distribution of surface tension and applications to surfactant deposition – ERRATUM27
Aerodynamic deformation and breakup of wall-attached droplets in axisymmetric stagnation airflow27
On the turbulence modelling of waves breaking on a vertical pile26
Hydrodynamic response of an annular swirling liquid sheet surrounding a forced gas jet26
Spreading of a viscous drop after impact onto a spherical target26
Water entry of cups and disks26
Regime transitions in stratified shear flows: the link between horizontal and inclined ducts26
Coupled dynamics of wall pressure and transpiration, with implications for the modelling of tailored surfaces and turbulent drag reduction26
Optimal growth in hypersonic flows over an inclined cone26
Thermal convection in the internally heated sphere26
Emergence of lobed wakes during the sedimentation of spheres in viscoelastic fluids26
Droplet evaporation in inert gases26
The stability of stratified horizontal flows of carbon dioxide at supercritical pressures26
The effects of surfactants on plunging breakers26
Bubble racing in a Hele-Shaw cell26
Droplet jumping by modulated electrowetting26
Weakly nonlinear behaviour of transonic buffet on airfoils25
Generalized Lagrangian heterogeneous multiscale modelling of complex fluids25
Complex-network analysis of high-frequency combustion instability in a model single-element rocket engine combustor25
Erosion induced by a disk translating towards or away from a granular bed25
Interaction between an in-flow particle and phase change25
Tripping effects on model-scale studies of flow over the DARPA SUBOFF25
Shear flow over a surface containing a groove covered by an incompressible surfactant phase25
Manipulation of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a heavy–light interface via successive shocks25
Unsteady convective–diffusive transport in semicircular microchannels with irreversible wall reaction25
The transient spread of a circular liquid jet and hydraulic jump formation25
A coherent composite approach for the continuous circular hydraulic jump and vortex structure25
Zonal flows driven by libration in rotating spherical shells: the case of periodic characteristic paths25
Direct numerical simulation of 45° oblique flow past surface-mounted square cylinder25
Elastohydrodynamic interactions in soft hydraulic knots25
Turbulent energy transfers in physical and scale spaces at dissipative length scales25
Analysis of the choking condition of one-dimensional diabatic flows with wall friction25
Characteristic scales during the onset of radiatively driven convection: linear analysis and simulations25
Viscoelastic fluid flow in a slowly varying planar contraction: the role of finite extensibility on the pressure drop25
Studying propagating turbulent structures in the near wake of a sphere using Hilbert proper orthogonal decomposition24
Active control of transition to turbulence in laminar separation bubbles24
Analysis and modelling of non-local eddy diffusivity for turbulent scalar flux24
Cavitation bubble dynamics inside a droplet suspended in a different host fluid24
Macroscopic model for generalised Newtonian inertial two-phase flow in porous media24
Robust relation of streamwise velocity autocorrelation in atmospheric surface layers based on an autoregressive moving average model24
Converging material with two bulges24
Understanding the effect of Prandtl number on momentum and scalar mixing rates in neutral and stably stratified flows using gradient field dynamics24
Emergence of long-range correlations and thermal spectra in forced turbulence24
Non-Newtonian and surfactant effects on the liquid plug rupture in an airway reopening model24
Measurement and analysis of sub-convective wall pressure fluctuations in turbulent boundary layer flows24
Atwood-number dependence of hydrodynamic instability driven by a strong shock wave24
Stratified horizontal convection24
The role of double‐layer vortex rings with the local swirl in the rapid transition to turbulent flows in Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with reshock24
Cylinder flow and noise control by active base blowing24
Capillary lubrication of a spherical particle near a fluid interface24
Role of streak secondary instabilities on free-stream turbulence-induced transition24
Fourier-based proper orthogonal decomposition of a turbulent round jet24
Particle segregation within bidisperse turbidity current evolution24
On the clustering of low-aspect-ratio oblate spheroids settling in ambient fluid24
Learning fluid physics from highly turbulent data using sparse physics-informed discovery of empirical relations (SPIDER)24
New formulations for the mean wall-normal velocity and Reynolds shear stress in a turbulent boundary layer under zero pressure gradient24
Convective mesoscale turbulence at very low Prandtl numbers24
Nested travelling wave structures in elastoinertial turbulence24
The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers24
Spatial instability analysis and mode transition of a viscoelastic jet in a co-flowing gas stream24
Trapping and leakage of heavy inertial particles in an unequal strength counter-rotating vortex pair23
On the optimal period of spanwise wall forcing for turbulent drag reduction23
Coupled effects of viscosity contrast and phase separation in hydrodynamically stable radial Hele-Shaw flow23
Multi-scale method for the solution of the concentration distribution in a two-layered channel flow23
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