Shock Waves
Last updated ISSN 0938-1287
Shock Waves is published by Springer Science+Business Media in engineering. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,890.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Shock Waves concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Combustion and Detonation Processes
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
- Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
- Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Energetic Materials and Combustion
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Plasma and Flow Control in Aerodynamics
- Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0938-1287, 1432-2153 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,890 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,520 |
| Publishing since | 1991 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/193 |
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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