Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Academic journal

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Discipline| Fluid mechanics
Language| English
Edited by| Jonathan B. Freund
Howard Stone
Publication details
History| 1969–present, 56 years old
Publisher|

Annual Reviews (US)

Frequency| Annually

Open access

| Subscribe to Open[1]

Impact factor

| 30.2 (2024)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech.
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus * W&L
CODEN| ARVFA3
ISSN| 0066-4189 (print)
1545-4479 (web)

LCCN| 74080866
OCLC no.| 1481500
Links

* Journal homepage

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on fluid mechanics. It is published once a year by Annual Reviews and the editors are Parviz Moin and Howard Stone.[2] As of 2023, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is being published as open access, under the Subscribe to Open model.[1] As of 2025, Journal Citation Reports gives the journal a 2024 impact factor of 30.2, ranking it first out of 41 journals in "Physics, Fluids and Plasmas" and first out of 171 journals in the category "Mechanics".[3][4]

## History

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The Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics was first published in 1969 by the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews.[5] Its inaugural editor was William R. Sears.[6] Taking after the Annual Review of Biochemistry, each volume typically begins with a prefatory chapter in which a notable scientist in the field reflects on their career and accomplishments.[7] As of 2020, it was published both in print and electronically. Some of its articles are available online in advance of the volume's publication date.[8]

## Scope and indexing

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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics defines its scope as covering significant developments in the field of fluid mechanics, including its history and foundations, non-newtonian fluids, rheology, incompressible and compressible flow, plasma flow, flow stability, multiphase flow, heat mixture and transport, control of fluid flow, combustion, turbulence, shock waves, and explosions.[9] It is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded, PASCAL, Inspec, GEOBASE, and Academic Search, among others.[10]

## Editorial processes

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The Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is helmed by the editor or the co-editors. The editor is assisted by the editorial committee, which includes associate editors, regular members, and occasionally guest editors. Guest members participate at the invitation of the editor, and serve terms of one year. All other members of the editorial committee are appointed by the Annual Reviews board of directors and serve five-year terms. The editorial committee determines which topics should be included in each volume and solicits reviews from qualified authors.[11] Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted. Peer review of accepted manuscripts is undertaken by the editorial committee.[12]

### Editors of volumes

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Dates indicate publication years in which someone was credited as a lead editor or co-editor of a journal volume. The planning process for a volume begins well before the volume appears, so appointment to the position of lead editor generally occurred prior to the first year shown here. An editor who has retired or died may be credited as a lead editor of a volume that they helped to plan, even if it is published after their retirement or death.

* William R. Sears (1969)[13]
* Milton Van Dyke, Walter G. Vincenti, and John V. Wehausen (1970-1976)[13]
* Van Dyke, Wehausen, and John L. Lumley (1977-1986)[13]
* Van Dyke, Lumley, and Helen L. Reed (1987-2000)[13]
* Lumley, Reed, and Stephen H. Davis (2001)[13]
* Lumley, Davis, and Parviz Moin (2002)[13]
* Davis and Moin (2003-2021)[13][14]
* Moin and Howard A. Stone (2021-2025)[15]
* Stone and Jonathan B. Freund (2025-)[16]

### Current editorial committee

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As of 2025, the editorial committee consists of the co-editors and the following members:[17]

* Dennice F. Gayme
* Rama Govindarajan
* Anne Juel
* Daniel Livescu
* Beverley J. McKeon
* Geoff Vallis
* Roberto Zenit

As of 2022, the editorial committee's members were:

* Jonathan B. Freund
* Dennice F. Gayme
* Anne Juel
* Daniel Livescu
* Beverley J. McKeon
* Geoff Vallis
* Roberto Zenit

## See also

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* List of fluid mechanics journals

## References

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1. ^ a b "Subscribe to Open". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
2. ^ "Our Team". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
3. ^ "Journal Citation Reports". Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
4. ^ "Journal Impact Factors". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
5. ^ "Preface". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 1 (1). 1969-01-01. doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.1.082106.100001. ISSN 0066-4189.
6. ^ Batchelor, G. K. (1970). "Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 1. Edited by W. R. SEARS. Annual Reviews, Inc., 1969. 459 pp. 9.00 outside U.S.A.)". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 43 (2): 430–432\. Bibcode:1970JFM....43..430B. doi:10.1017/S0022112070212471. ISSN 1469-7645. S2CID 122797428.
7. ^ "Preface". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 22 (1): annurev.fl.22.082106.100001. 1990. doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.22.082106.100001. ISSN 0066-4189.
8. ^ "Expected Publication Dates". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
9. ^ "Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
10. ^ "Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics". MIAR. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
11. ^ "Editorial Principles and Policies". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
12. ^ "Information for Unsolicited Authors and Reviewers". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
13. ^ a b c d e f g Davis, Stephen H.; Moin, Parviz (2018-01-05). "Introduction". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 50 (1): v–vi. Bibcode:2018AnRFM..50D...5D. doi:10.1146/annurev-fl-50-120617-100001. ISSN 0066-4189.
14. ^ "CO-EDITORS OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS - VOLUME 53, 2021". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
15. ^ "CO-EDITORS OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
16. ^ "CO-EDITORS OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
17. ^ "Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Current Editorial Committee". Annual Reviews. Retrieved March 9, 2025.

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