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Physical Review Fluids
H-index 34

Physical Review Fluids

Published by: American Physical Society

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 64 233 575 30
Physics 114 16 71 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 556
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1071
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 21
SCIMAGO H-index: 64
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.002
Impact Factor: 2.8

Top Publications

  • Perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence

    (2021)
    92 Citations
  • Probabilistic neural networks for fluid flow surrogate modeling and data recovery

    Romit Maulik;Kai Fukami;Nesar Ramachandra;Koji Fukagata

    (2020)
    91 Citations
  • Data-driven compressibility transformation for turbulent wall layers

    Pedro S. Volpiani;Prahladh S. Iyer;Sergio Pirozzoli;Johan Larsson

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • Stretching and break-up of saliva filaments during speech: A route for pathogen aerosolization and its potential mitigation

    M. Abkarian;H. A. Stone

    (2020)
    75 Citations
  • Towards improved social distancing guidelines: Space and time dependence of virus transmission from speech-driven aerosol transport between two individuals

    Fan Yang;Amir A. Pahlavan;Simon Mendez;Manouk Abkarian

    (2020)
    70 Citations
  • Growth of respiratory droplets in cold and humid air

    Chong Shen Ng;Chong Shen Ng;Kai Leong Chong;Kai Leong Chong;Rui Yang;Rui Yang;Mogeng Li;Mogeng Li

    (2021)
    67 Citations
  • Scaling exponents saturate in three-dimensional isotropic turbulence

    Kartik P. Iyer;Katepalli R. Sreenivasan;Katepalli R. Sreenivasan;P. K. Yeung

    (2020)
    65 Citations
  • Vortex stretching and enstrophy production in high Reynolds number turbulence

    Dhawal Buaria;Dhawal Buaria;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Alain Pumir;Alain Pumir

    (2020)
    65 Citations

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