OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental Fluid Mechanics is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of density maximum of water on the stability of gravitactic convective motions in biothermal convection	35
RANS model predictions for desalination discharges implemented with a dynamic turbulent Schmidt number approach	20
The entire lifetime of a distinct double-diffusive staircase in crater Lake Nyos, Cameroon	19
The characterization of turbulent heat and moisture transport during a gust-front event over the Indian peninsula	19
Hydrodynamic forces on emergent cylinders in non-uniform flow	18
Investigation of the flow structures through heterogeneous vegetation of varying patch configurations in an open channel	17
Predicting velocity and turbulent kinetic energy inside an emergent Phragmites australis canopy with real morphology	15
Aerodynamics of ancient egyptian Obelisks and their structural response to Boundary Layer wind	14
Preface: special issue on the hydrodynamic and fluvial instabilities	14
Dispersion coefficients analysis by ADCP measurements, tracer test and numerical simulations	14
Large eddy simulation of flow around semi-conical piers vertically mounted on the bed	14
Experimental study on the discharge characteristics of viscous debris flow with grid-type dam	13
Revisiting the analysis of self-formed threshold alluvial channels	12
The geography of near-shelf mixing on the east coast of South Africa	12
Entrainment in buoyant jets and fountains revisited	12
Fate of turbid glacial inflows in a hydroelectric reservoir	12
Experimental investigation of the near-surface flow dynamics in downburst-like impinging jets	11
Acknowledgement of reviewers 2021	11
Interactions between emergent and submerged porous horseshoe elements and open channel flows	11
Turbulence behaviors underlying the sensible heat and water vapor flux dissimilarity in a stably stratified flow	10
Entrainment dynamics of buoyant jets in a stably stratified environment	10
Uncertainty quantification of large-eddy simulation results of riverine flows: a field and numerical study	10
Bursting phenomenon created by bridge piers group in open channel flow	9
Wave-like motion and secondary currents in arrays of emergent cylinders induced by large scale eddying motion	8
Assessment of critical brine disposal operations conditions by CFD modeling and a Kriging metamodel	8

Numerical and experimental studies of turbulence in vegetated open-channel flows	8
Using automatic model calibration for 3D morphological simulations: a case study of the Bodendorf reservoir flushing	8
Role of three-dimensional vortex motions on horizontal eddies in an open-channel cavity	8
Fog-laden density staircases in the marine atmospheric boundary layer	8
Improved numerical predictions of inclined negatively buoyant jet behaviour	8
The effects of spanwise canopy heterogeneity on the flow field and evaporation rates	7
Simulation of developing process of forced hydraulic jumps by an explicit incompressible particle method	7
Sediment management using bandal-like structures as nature-based solution	7
Response	7
Shallow katabatic flow on a non-uniformly cooled slope	7
Predicting flow resistance in open-channel flows with submerged vegetation	6
Numerical experiments of partial-depth colliding gravity currents using LES	6
Discussion of “Mahmodinia, S., & Javan, M. (2021). Vortical structures, entrainment and mixing process in the lateral discharge of the gravity current. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 21(5), 1035–1	6
Evaluation of the eddy diffusivity in a pollutant dispersion model in the planetary boundary layer	6
A new pH-based tracing method for flow mixing studies in closed-loop experimental flumes: evaluation in an open-channel confluence	6
Modelling of spatial variabilities in the flow structure of a heterogeneous mangrove patch through laboratory scale models	6
Dynamics of oil slicks on wavy water surfaces	6
Fine stock dynamics along an engineered Alpine river system	6
Penthouses’ impact on the wind flow structure and pollution distribution in the street canyons with or without balconies on building facades	5
Seabed morphodynamics of a coastal lagoon of the Gulf of California	5
A numerical investigation of three-dimensional falling liquid films	5
Regional-scale meteorological characteristics of the Vento Norte phenomenon observed in Southern Brazil	5
A fully coupled two-dimensional flow—vegetation routing model in open channel flow	5
Effects of fluvial instability on the bed morphology in vegetated channels	5
Countergradient turbulent transport in a plume with a crossflow	5
Acknowledgement of Reviewers for 2022	5
Scaling laws of strong convective thermals: comparison with experimental data	5
Shear instability in mode-2 internal Kelvin waves	5
On the performance of generative adversarial network for generating turbulent round jet flow	5
Establishing morpho-dynamic baseline for flow-sediment management of a tidal river in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Delta system through field measurement	5
Simulation of particle resuspension by wind in an urban system	5
The effect of pore geometry in constitutive hysteretic models for unsaturated water flow	5
Modeling of wind-driven circulation of schistosome larvae in a vegetated side pond	5
Depth averaged velocity and stage-discharge relationships in compound channels with composite roughness	4
Performance and flow dynamics of heavy air curtains using experiments and numerical simulations	4
Laboratory experiments on debris flow processes in sharp channel bends	4
Wave-induced Lagrangian drift in a porous seabed	4
Effects of emergent and submerged rigid vegetation configurations on gravity current dynamics	4
Review of: a brief history of aqueducts and conduit resistance laws by Michele Mossa	4
High fidelity simulations of contaminant dispersion in an urban environment with comparison to magnetic resonance imaging measurements	4
Simulation of inclined dense jets in stagnant environments: an LES and experimental study	4
Shallow fluid flow over an obstacle: higher-order non-hydrostatic modeling and breaking waves	4
Critical analysis of turbulence models for simulating positive surge waves in open channels in a RANS-VOF setup	4
Turbulent structures and local scour around a cylindrical pier under unsteady flows	4
Time-dependent scour processes on granular beds at large scale	3
Experimental study of the effects of riverbank vegetation conditions on riverbank erosion processes	3
Shear layer over floodplain vegetation with a view on bending and streamlining effects	3
Convective structures of salt fingers at a neutrally buoyant density interface	3
A wind tunnel study on flow instability and pollutant dispersion inside an isolated street canyon	3
Numerical simulation of local scour around the pier with and without airfoil collar (AFC) using FLOW-3D	3

Turbulent cascading in Buoyant plumes	3
Experimental study of the lock-release gravity current propagates on a rough upslope	3
Two-layer channel flow involving a fluid with time-dependent viscosity	3
Structure of dense plumes from a finite-height cylinder in laminar crossflow	3
Effects of bedform migration on nutrient fluxes at the sediment–water interface: a theoretical analysis	3
Simulation of flow and shear stress distribution on the Oceano Dunes, implications for saltation and dust emissions	3
Dissolution of oil in water in the viscous-gravity stage of oil spreading	3
Uncertainty quantification of inflow on passive scalar dispersion in an urban environment	3
A comparative study of turbulent stratified shear layers: effect of density gradient distribution	3
Conservation equations for open-channel flow: effects of bed roughness and secondary currents	3
Large eddy simulation of thermal stratification effect on natural ventilation performance in a corridor fire with a ceiling-duct	3
Scavenging processes in multicomponent medium with first-order reaction kinetics: Lagrangian and Eulerian modeling	3
Diurnal heating and cooling of a sloping water body with vegetated shallow regions	3
On the depth-averaged models of ice-covered flows	3
Spatiotemporal distribution of the upper ocean temperature and salinity in the Bay of Bengal during 1980–2022 and its implications on the mixed layer dynamics	3
Lock-release gravity currents propagating over roughness elements	3
An improvement to continuous random walk model for sediment diffusion in inhomogeneous turbulent flows	3
Linear stability of sand waves sheared by a turbulent flow	3
LES validation of lock-exchange density currents interacting with an emergent bluff obstacle	3
Evaluating longitudinal dispersion of scalars in rural channels of agro-urban environments	3
Analysis of the details of total mechanical energy balance and turbulent flow characteristics in irregular open-channels	2
Fluvial levees in compound channels: a review on formation processes and the impact of bedforms and vegetation	2
Semi-analytical study on environmental dispersion of settling particles in a width-independent wetland flow	2
Peak wind speed modulation by large-scale motions in neutrally stratified atmospheric surface layer	2
Stratification and temporal evolution of mixing regimes in diurnally heated river flows	2
Quantification of continuous sand flux time-series downstream of a dam during a flushing event	2
A high-order well-balanced weighted compact nonlinear scheme for solving the pollutant transport model	2
Stability, resonance and role of turbulent stresses in 1D alluvial flows	2
Vegetation effects on radiation-induced natural convection in sloping water bodies	2
Prediction of polydisperse particles deposition and mean flow structures at a bifurcating channel using an Euler–Lagrange approach	2
On the origin of forces in the wake of an elliptical cylinder at low Reynolds number	2
Determination of discharge coefficient in non-Boussinesq cases and application in emptying–filling boxes	2
Three-dimensional modeling of diffusion-gravity flows in ice-covered lakes	2
Uncertainty of propagation and entrainment characteristics of lock-exchange gravity current	2
How hydraulic jumps form downstream of a negative step with channel expansion: experimental and numerical investigations of the transitions between wave jumps and submerged jets	2
Numerical simulation of overtopping breach processes caused by failure of landslide dams	2
Numerical simulation of pollutants dispersion emitted by a bent chimney	2
Development of drone-type float for surface-velocity measurement in rivers	2
Reply to "Comments on modeling stratified suspension concentration distribution in turbulent flow using fractional advection-diffusion equation" by R. Absi	2
What does the volume-averaged water age distribution function reveal about flow fields in rectangular shallow reservoirs?	1
Revolutionizing agriculture: a comprehensive research on IoT controlled fluid circulation in hydroponics using plumbed PVC planting pipes for enhanced crop growth and disease detection with CFD analys	1
Momentum and energy considerations in self-aerated free-surface flows	1
On the rotation of melting ice disks	1
Three-dimensional numerical simulation of basin-scale internal waves in a long narrow lake	1
Modeling arboreal vegetation-induced friction and its influence on river flooding using a two-dimensional model	1
Investigation on flow field near confluence of two rigid channels at zero-degree	1
Characteristics of planar buoyant jets and plumes in a turbulent channel crossflow from direct numerical simulations	1
Numerical simulation of flow field characteristics and pollutant transport under different ventilation modes	1
Overfalling impinging jet flow dynamics within scoured holes downstream of a levee	1
Combined integral and particle model for describing the dispersion, dilution, terminal layer formation and influence area from a point source discharge into a water body	1
Topographic effects on buoyancy driven flows along the slope	1
Inclined dense effluent discharge modelling in shallow waters	1
KmT, detailing layered mixing governed by internal wave breaking	1
Multifractal framework of partitioned turbulent data in atmospheric surface layer	1
Assessment of risks associated with development of river meandering under climate change using a physics-based free-meandering model	1
Comments on «Modeling stratified suspension concentration distribution in turbulent flow using fractional advection–diffusion equation» by Snehasis Kundu, environmental fluid mechanics, https://doi.or	1
Experimental investigation and integral simulation of a thermal annular plume	1
Revisiting and revising Tatarskii’s formulation for the temperature structure parameter ($$C_T^2$$) in atmospheric flows	1
Uncertainty quantification of steady and transient source term estimation in an urban environment	1
A semi-coupled model for determining the distribution of two-dimensional coherent structures in open channel flow	1
Effect of crossflow on trapping depths of particle plumes: laboratory experiments and application to the PLUMEX field experiment	1
The WATERMAN system for daily beach water quality forecasting: a ten-year retrospective	1
Explaining multiple patches of aquatic vegetation through linear stability analysis	1
Eddy dissipation rates in the dryline boundary layer	1
Effect of anisotropy and boundary conditions on Darcy and Brinkman porous penetrative convection	1
Hydraulics of stratified sill flows within varying channel geometries: investigating energy loss and mixing of maximal two-layer exchange	1
Large and very large scale motions in open-channel flows over rough bed in the presence and absence of a mixing layer	1
Numerical modeling of air entrainment by turbulent plunging jet and aerated flow in the plunging pool	1
Environmental fluid mechanics of minimum energy loss weirs: hydrodynamics and self-aeration at Chinchilla MEL weir during the November–December 2021 flood event	1
Flow structure, bed morphology and contaminated sediment transport at the confluences of pipe and channel	1
A comparative study of pre-aeration effects on hydraulic jump air–water flow properties at high Froude numbers	1
Preface to the Special issue of Environmental Fluid Mechanics in Honour of Peter A. Davies	1
Acknowledgement of Reviewers for 2023	1
Particle dynamics in horizontal buoyant jets within linearly stratified environments	1
SPH modelling of wave attenuation by an array of submerged resonators and vorticity generation mechanism	1
Wavelet analysis of atmospheric turbulent data	1
Unsteady two-dimensional distribution of suspended sediment transport in open channels	1
Flow hydrodynamics, density contrast effects and mixing at the confluence between the Yangtze River and the Poyang Lake channel	1