OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	314
Fluid Dynamics of Axial Turbomachinery: Blade- and Stage-Level Simulations and Models	255
The Influence of Boundaries on Gravity Currents and Thin Films: Drainage, Confinement, Convergence, and Deformation Effects	183
New Insights into Turbulent Spots	120
Bubble Plumes in Nature	79
Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow	76
Particle Rafts and Armored Droplets	73
Flow Mechanics in Ablative Thermal Protection Systems	72
Evaporation of Sessile Droplets	70
Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions	66
Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard Convection	65
Continuum and Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Hydrodynamics of Colloids Straddling a Fluid Interface	56
A Perspective on the State of Aerospace Computational Fluid Dynamics Technology	53
Gas Microfilms in Droplet Dynamics: When Do Drops Bounce?	52
Coalescence Dynamics	51
Thermoacoustic Instability in Combustors	51
Recent Developments in Theories of Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Turbulence	48
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Clogging of Noncohesive Suspension Flows	39
The Dynamics of Jupiter's and Saturn's Weather Layers: A Synthesis After Cassini and Juno	34
Submesoscale Dynamics in the Upper Ocean	32
Statistical Models for the Dynamics of Heavy Particles in Turbulence	32
Linear Flow Analysis Inspired by Mathematical Methods from Quantum Mechanics	30
Fluid-Elastic Interactions Near Contact at Low Reynolds Number	28
Fundamental Fluid Dynamics Challenges in Inkjet Printing	26

Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Its Variants	25
Sharp Interface Methods for Simulation and Analysis of Free Surface Flows with Singularities: Breakup and Coalescence	22
Vortices and Forces in Biological Flight: Insects, Birds, and Bats	22
Self-Propulsion of Chemically Active Droplets	21
Learning Nonlinear Reduced Models from Data with Operator Inference	20
Nonideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics of Dense Vapors and Supercritical Fluids	20
FLEET Velocimetry for Aerodynamics	19
Molecular Mechanics of Liquid and Gas Slip Flow	18
Flow Computation Pioneer Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974)	18
Fluid Dynamics of Airtanker Firefighting	17
Large-Scale Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction in the Earth's Extratropical Atmosphere	16
Motion in Stratified Fluids	15
Particle-Laden Turbulence: Progress and Perspectives	14
Elasto-Inertial Turbulence	13
Fluid Dynamics of Polar Vortices on Earth, Mars, and Titan	13
Flood Inundation Prediction	10
Deformation and Breakup of Bubbles and Drops in Turbulence	10
The Early Days and Rise of Turbulence Simulation	10
Freezing and Capillarity	10
Turbulence from an Observer Perspective	9
Geometric Approaches to Lagrangian Averaging	9