Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is 36. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Fluid Mechanics of Ocean Microplastics510
Coalescence Dynamics471
Flow Mechanics in Ablative Thermal Protection Systems287
Fluid Dynamics of Axial Turbomachinery: Blade- and Stage-Level Simulations and Models181
A Perspective on the State of Aerospace Computational Fluid Dynamics Technology155
Linear Flow Analysis Inspired by Mathematical Methods from Quantum Mechanics147
Nonideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics of Dense Vapors and Supercritical Fluids138
Self-Propulsion of Chemically Active Droplets135
Laboratory Experiments in Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics119
Geometric Approaches to Lagrangian Averaging118
Introduction117
Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Particle Diffusiophoresis Driven by Chemical Gradients115
Moisture in Textiles92
Flow Control for Unmanned Air Vehicles87
Mass Transfer at the Ocean–Atmosphere Interface: The Role of Wave Breaking, Droplets, and Bubbles84
Rapidly Rotating Magnetohydrodynamics and the Geodynamo76
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Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow76
Rotating Horizontal Convection74
Particle Rafts and Armored Droplets71
Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard Convection68
The Dynamics of Sand Dunes67
Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow67
Vortices and Forces in Biological Flight: Insects, Birds, and Bats64
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Recent Developments in Theories of Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Turbulence61
Sharp Interface Methods for Simulation and Analysis of Free Surface Flows with Singularities: Breakup and Coalescence59
The Early Days and Rise of Turbulence Simulation53
FLEET Velocimetry for Aerodynamics51
Freezing and Capillarity49
Aircraft Icing: Modeling and Simulation48
Building Ventilation: The Consequences for Personal Exposure44
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Stagnant Lids and Crusts44
Gas–Particle Dynamics in High-Speed Flows44
Advances in Modeling Dense Granular Media43
Icebergs Melting38
3D Lagrangian Particle Tracking in Fluid Mechanics36
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