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Journal of Fluid Mechanics Template

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About the Journal of Fluid Mechanics format

Journal of Fluid Mechanics is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, Wind and Air Flow Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 32,497 papers, which have received 1,908,619 citations.

PublisherCambridge University Press
Reference styleAuthor–year (JFM)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inFluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis Wind and Air Flow Studies Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
ISSN0022-1120
Citation impact (2-yr)3.76
h-index464
i10-index22,274
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitejournals.cambridge.org
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Papers published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics per year

764
2014
722
2015
825
2016
906
2017
940
2018
1.1K
2019
996
2020
1.3K
2021
1.1K
2022
1.1K
2023
1.2K
2024
1.3K
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Fluid Mechanics by publication year

34.1K
2014
30.3K
2015
34.8K
2016
32.1K
2017
33.7K
2018
32.3K
2019
24.2K
2020
24.8K
2021
16.2K
2022
13K
2023
8.8K
2024
3.4K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Fluid Mechanics

On the identification of a vortex

Jinhee Jeong, Fazle Hussain · 25 Feb 1995

Considerable confusion surrounds the longstanding question of what constitutes a vortex, especially in a turbulent flow. This question, frequently misunderstood as academic, has recently acquired particular significance since coherent structures (CS) in turbulent flows are now commonly regarded as vortices. An objective definition of a vortex should permit the use of vortex dynamics concepts to…

6,377 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Dynamic mode decomposition of numerical and experimental data

Peter J. Schmid · 1 Jul 2010

The description of coherent features of fluid flow is essential to our understanding of fluid-dynamical and transport processes. A method is introduced that is able to extract dynamic information from flow fields that are either generated by a (direct) numerical simulation or visualized/measured in a physical experiment. The extracted dynamic modes, which can be interpreted…

5,785 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Progress in the development of a Reynolds-stress turbulence closure

B. E. Launder, Gordon Reece, W. Rodi · 15 Apr 1975

The paper develops proposals for a model of turbulence in which the Reynolds stresses are determined from the solution of transport equations for these variables and for the turbulence energy dissipation rate ε. Particular attention is given to the approximation of the pressure-strain correlations; the forms adopted appear to give reasonably satisfactory partitioning of the…

3,965 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The lift on a small sphere in a slow shear flow

P. G. Saffman · 1 Jun 1965

It is shown that a sphere moving through a very viscous liquid with velocity V relative to a uniform simple shear, the translation velocity being parallel to the streamlines and measured relative to the streamline through the centre, experiences a lift force 81·2μ Va 2 k ½ / v ½ + smaller terms perpendicular to…

3,363 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Journal of Fluid Mechanics template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Journal of Fluid Mechanics use?
Journal of Fluid Mechanics uses Author–year (JFM) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics (official class). It is a physics journal, published by Cambridge University Press.
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