Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Last updated ISSN 0022-1120
Journal of Fluid Mechanics is published by Cambridge University Press in engineering. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Fluid Mechanics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
- Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
- Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-1120, 1469-7645, 1750-6859 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 32,805 |
| Publishing since | 1956 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=FLM |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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