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Fluids

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 170 94 130 15
Engineering and Technology 461 84 114 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 270
Documents by Best Scientists*: 316
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 35
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.432
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Fluids?

Fluids is mainly concerned with subjects like Mechanics, Turbulence, Computational fluid dynamics, Flow (psychology) and Reynolds number. Discussions in Fluids are anchored in the subject of Mechanics and the similar topic of Porous medium. Turbulence kinetic energy, Large eddy simulation, Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations and Direct numerical simulation are all aspects of Turbulence research featured in Fluids.

Fluids centers on topics in Convection, with a focus on Rayleigh number.

  • Mechanics (50.75%)
  • Turbulence (17.51%)
  • Computational fluid dynamics (11.14%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • On the Values for the Turbulent Schmidt Number in Environmental Flows (87 citations)
  • Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Fully Developed Turbulent Flows of Graphene Nanoplatelets-Silver/Water Nanofluids (67 citations)
  • Surface Quasi-Geostrophy (59 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Fluids:

The journal papers explore disciplines such as Mechanics, Turbulence, Computational fluid dynamics, Aerodynamics and Reynolds number. The studies on Mechanics discussed at the most cited publications can also contribute to research in the domains of Boundary value problem, Viscosity and Classical mechanics. The most cited articles with studies in Turbulence featured incorporate elements of Flow (mathematics), Flow (psychology), Statistical physics and Atmospheric sciences.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Mechanical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Mechanics, Turbulence, Flow (mathematics), Reynolds number and Computational fluid dynamics. Mechanics research discussed connects with the study of Porous medium. Turbulence kinetic energy, Large eddy simulation, Reynolds stress, Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations and Direct numerical simulation are among the concentrations of Turbulence that garnered much attention in it.

The work on Flow (mathematics) tackled in it brings together disciplines like Fluid dynamics and Boundary value problem, Mathematical analysis. It connects research in Computational fluid dynamics with the related topic of Aerodynamics. Nanofluid is a focus of the Heat transfer works in Fluids.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Magneto-Bioconvection Flow of Williamson Nanofluid over an Inclined Plate with Gyrotactic Microorganisms and Entropy Generation (10 citations)
  • Blood flow modeling in coronary arteries: a review (6 citations)
  • Hierarchical Adaptive Eddy-Capturing Approach for Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows (5 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Fluids (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Manu L N G Malbrain (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • I. De Laet (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • N. Van Regenmortel (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hilde Dits (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Karen Schoonheydt (12 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Fluids (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Langley Research Center (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Imperial College London (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • ETH Zurich (3 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 95.20% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 5.88% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.76% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 5.88% of all publications and 76.47% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Effect of Magnetohydrodynamics on Heat Transfer Behaviour of a Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow over a Stretching Sheet under Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium Condition

    Konduru Sarada;Ramanahalli J. Punith Gowda;Ioannis E. Sarris;Rangaswamy Naveen Kumar

    (2021)
    172 Citations
  • Magneto-Bioconvection Flow of Williamson Nanofluid over an Inclined Plate with Gyrotactic Microorganisms and Entropy Generation

    Tunde A. Yusuf;Fazle Mabood;B. C. Prasannakumara;Ioannis E. Sarris

    (2021)
    112 Citations
  • Unsteady MHD Mixed Convection Flow of Non-Newtonian Casson Hybrid Nanofluid in the Stagnation Zone of Sphere Spinning Impulsively

    Essam R. El-Zahar;Abd El Nasser Mahdy;Ahmed M. Rashad;Wafaa Saad

    (2021)
    54 Citations
  • The Magneto-Natural Convection Flow of a Micropolar Hybrid Nanofluid over a Vertical Plate Saturated in a Porous Medium

    A. Mahdy;E. R. El-Zahar;A. M. Rashad;W. Saad

    (2021)
    45 Citations
  • On the Effect of the Respiratory Droplet Generation Condition on COVID-19 Transmission

    Ali Hosseinpour Shafaghi;Farzad Rokhsar Talabazar;Ali Koşar;Morteza Ghorbani

    (2020)
    43 Citations
  • Physical Background, Computations and Practical Issues of the Magnetohydrodynamic Pressure Drop in a Fusion Liquid Metal Blanket

    Sergey Smolentsev

    (2021)
    43 Citations
  • On the deterministic prediction of water waves

    Marco Klein;Matthias Dudek;Günther F. Clauss;Sören Ehlers

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Dynamics of a Laser-Induced Bubble above the Flat Top of a Solid Cylinder—Mushroom-Shaped Bubbles and the Fast Jet

    (2021)
    39 Citations
  • Numerical Investigation of Mixed Convective Williamson Fluid Flow Over an Exponentially Stretching Permeable Curved Surface

    Kamran Ahmed;Waqar A. Khan;Tanvir Akbar;Ghulam Rasool

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Detection of Partial Blockages in Pressurized Pipes by Transient Tests: A Review of the Physical Experiments

    (2023)
    29 Citations

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