OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is 62. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Fluid Mechanics of Ocean Microplastics	524
Coalescence Dynamics	481
A Perspective on the State of Aerospace Computational Fluid Dynamics Technology	301
Fluid Dynamics of Axial Turbomachinery: Blade- and Stage-Level Simulations and Models	187
Flow Mechanics in Ablative Thermal Protection Systems	160
Linear Flow Analysis Inspired by Mathematical Methods from Quantum Mechanics	153
Self-Propulsion of Chemically Active Droplets	147
Nonideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics of Dense Vapors and Supercritical Fluids	143
Geometric Approaches to Lagrangian Averaging	123
Laboratory Experiments in Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics	123
Introduction	121
Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Particle Diffusiophoresis Driven by Chemical Gradients	120
Moisture in Textiles	96
Flow Control for Unmanned Air Vehicles	92
Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow	87
Mass Transfer at the Ocean–Atmosphere Interface: The Role of Wave Breaking, Droplets, and Bubbles	82
	78
Rapidly Rotating Magnetohydrodynamics and the Geodynamo	78
Rotating Horizontal Convection	77
Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard Convection	74
Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow	74
Particle Rafts and Armored Droplets	73
The Dynamics of Sand Dunes	71
	68
Recent Developments in Theories of Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Turbulence	64

Sharp Interface Methods for Simulation and Analysis of Free Surface Flows with Singularities: Breakup and Coalescence	63
Vortices and Forces in Biological Flight: Insects, Birds, and Bats	62