OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is 16. 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
The Role of Canopy Turbulence in Wildland Fire Behavior	196
Erratum: The Dynamics of Sand Dunes	195
The Fluid Mechanics of Ocean Microplastics	176
Flow Mechanics in Ablative Thermal Protection Systems	162
Coalescence Dynamics	148
A Perspective on the State of Aerospace Computational Fluid Dynamics Technology	141
Linear Flow Analysis Inspired by Mathematical Methods from Quantum Mechanics	131
Self-Propulsion of Chemically Active Droplets	131
Nonideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics of Dense Vapors and Supercritical Fluids	107
Geometric Approaches to Lagrangian Averaging	103
Laboratory Experiments in Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics	102
Introduction	101
Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Particle Diffusiophoresis Driven by Chemical Gradients	94
Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow	89
Introduction	82
Rapidly Rotating Magnetohydrodynamics and the Geodynamo	75
	73
Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard Convection	72
Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow	65
Particle Rafts and Armored Droplets	61
Vortices and Forces in Biological Flight: Insects, Birds, and Bats	54
The Dynamics of Sand Dunes	53
	53
Sharp Interface Methods for Simulation and Analysis of Free Surface Flows with Singularities: Breakup and Coalescence	51
Recent Developments in Theories of Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Turbulence	49

Freezing and Capillarity	47
The Early Days and Rise of Turbulence Simulation	44
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Stagnant Lids and Crusts	41
Aircraft Icing: Modeling and Simulation	41
Icebergs Melting	40
Advances in Modeling Dense Granular Media	40
Fluid Mechanics for Green Buildings	37
Building Ventilation: The Consequences for Personal Exposure	33
Gas–Particle Dynamics in High-Speed Flows	33
Immersed Boundary Methods: Historical Perspective and Future Outlook	32
Vortex-Induced Vibration of Flexible Cylinders in Cross-Flow	32
3D Lagrangian Particle Tracking in Fluid Mechanics	31
Fluid Deformation and Mixing in Porous Media as Drivers for Chemical and Biological Processes	30
Bubble Plumes in Nature	25
Secondary Atomization of Droplets at Extreme Conditions	25
Gas Microfilms in Droplet Dynamics: When Do Drops Bounce?	24
Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions	24
Evaporation of Sessile Droplets	22
Statistical Models for the Dynamics of Heavy Particles in Turbulence	20
Erratum: Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow	18
Motion in Stratified Fluids	16
Gas-Liquid Foam Dynamics: From Structural Elements to Continuum Descriptions	16