OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow is 31. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
A transient solution for shear flow driven orientation and deformation of a droplet at low Reynolds numbers	80
Study on the influence of baffle height and angle on the performance of coarse powder separator in power plant based on CFD-DPM method	80
DNS vs. LES: Turbulent flow in square duct with heated foil boundary	74
Robust data-driven turbulence closures for improved heat transfer prediction in complex geometries	74
Heat transfer and dynamic deformation in infusion bags during hot water shower sterilization: A numerically efficient two-step CFD multiphase model	67
Editorial Board	65
A novel integrated system of photovoltaic panel and water still with photovoltaic cooling and heat storage functions	62
Multifactor influence on smoke back-layering length of an upward single-slope tunnel with a water spray system	62
A review of fast unsteady aerodynamic and aeroelastic calculation methods for subsonic aircraft design	57
RANS CFD applied to 2D canonical shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction	57
Performance analysis of gas-assisted nozzle jets using stress-blending eddy simulation turbulence modeling	54
Impact of cylinder diameter and spacing on fluid flow, forces, and heat transfer in tandem cylinder configuration	49
Study on the flow and heat transfer characteristics inside high-porosity open-cell copper foams: Experimental and numerical explorations	49
Asymptotic thermophysical behaviors of near-critical fluid under parameter scaling	46
New correlation of heat transfer coefficient for saturated flow boiling in smooth helically coiled tubes	45
Evaporation of high-volatile binary sessile drop: Influence of concentarion	42
Heat transfer characteristics and optimization strategies in supercritical fluid heat exchangers with non-uniform thermal boundaries: A systematic review	41
Experimental study of dielectric liquid spray cooling on multi-scale structured surfaces inspired by leaf veins	39
Heat sink optimization with response surface methodology for single phase immersion cooling	37
Influence of varying aspect ratios and flow rates in thermal energy storage tanks using phase change material	37
A theoretical model for ingress through turbine rim seals based on physically-observed unsteadiness	37
Numerical analysis of single bubble dynamics and heat transfer in electric field-enhanced nucleate boiling	37
Role of coherent structures in the transport equation for the vorticity–temperature correlation	37
Turbulence statistics analysis of cross flow and heat transfer over an inline tube bundle using DNS	36
Thermal analysis and structural optimization of microchannels of bionic dorsal fin structure using multi-objective genetic algorithm	36

Erratum to “Numerical investigation of effusion cooling characteristics in combustor liners: Point and volumetric source term modelling approaches” [Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow 117 (2026) 110121]	35
Heat transfer mechanism of nucleated bubbles on vertical heating surface induced by 2.4 MHz waves in HFE-7100 liquid	34
Effects of fin shapes and orientations with cyclic heating and cooling on melting and solidification of PCM-filled closed space	34
A novel three-dimensional topology-optimized cold plate design for lithium-ion battery thermal management based on Murray’s law	32
Eddy-resolving Reynolds stress modeling of particle-laden flows using a multiphase Euler–Lagrange approach	32
Experimental study and motion parameter optimization of the shell side of a gas-phase rotating shell-and-tube heat exchanger based on an improved NSGA-II algorithm	31