About the journal

  • Scope
  • Article types
  • Frequency
  • Editorial policy
  • Ethics
  • Open access
  • Research data
  • Copyright and permissions
  • Abstracting and indexing services

    • Scope

    Fluid Dynamics Research publishes original and creative works in all fields of fluid dynamics. The scope includes theoretical, numerical and experimental studies as well as data-driven approaches that contribute to the fundamental understanding and/or application of fluid flow phenomena, including turbulence, instability, nonlinear waves, vortex dynamics, rotating flows, multiphase and stratified flows, and micro-scale flows.

    Fluid Dynamics Research covers a broad range of fundamental topics in science and engineering in fields including, but not limited to, aeronautics, astrophysics, acoustics, atmospheric and environmental science, biological fluid dynamics, chemically reacting flows, combustion, gasdynamics, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, and plasma physics. FDR welcomes contributions that pioneer novel ideas and approaches to advance the understanding of fluid flow phenomena and/or develop new applications of fluid mechanics.

    We strongly discourage submission of papers that rely on the use of commercial software to perform specific engineering design studies in fluid dynamics that do not provide insight for more general flows.

    Article types

    Fluid Dynamics Research welcomes submissions of the following article types:

    • Papers: reports of high-quality original research with conclusions representing a significant advance in the field.
    • Special issue article: invited articles, which will form a special collection of papers on a specific theme. When asked to select 'Article Type' on the submission system, please select 'Special Issue Article'. Then select the special issue you're submitting to in the drop down box that appears.
    • Review: written by leading researchers in their fields, these articles present the background to and overview of a particular field, and the current state of the art. Review articles are normally invited by the Editorial Board.
    • Comment: comment or criticism on work previously published in the journal. These are usually published with an associated reply.

    Frequency

    Fluid Dynamics Research publishes six issues per year.

    Editorial policy

    Articles submitted to Fluid Dynamics Research are screened by either the Editor-in-Chief or one of the Editors. Articles may be returned without peer-review if they are outside the scope of the journal, if they are not prepared in accordance with the guidelines for authors, or if they are judged by the Editors to be of insufficient originality or interest for the readers of the journal. Articles that pass the Editor screening will be assigned to a Handling Editor (either an Editor or an Associate Editor) who will manage the peer-review process and take the final decision on the paper. Fluid Dynamics Research operates a single-anonymous peer review process, in which the reviewers know the identity of the authors, but the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers.

    Ethics

    Fluid Dynamics Research maintains the highest standards of publication and research ethics and is a member of the Committee for Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors are expected to comply with IOP Publishing's Ethical policy.

    Research data

    This journal has adopted IOP Publishing's standard data policy. Please check that your article complies with the policy before submission.

    Questions about the policy should be sent to fdr@ioppublishing.org

    Many research funders now require authors to make all data related to their research available in an online repository. Please refer to the policy for further information about research data, data repositories and data citation.

    Open access

    Fluid Dynamics Research is a hybrid open access journal. Authors have the option to pay an article publication charge (APC) to publish their article on a gold open access basis under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. Articles published on a gold open access basis are freely available to everyone to read and reuse immediately upon publication, provided the terms of the licence are followed and clear attribution to the author is given. The APC for Fluid Dynamics Research can be found on the Publication charges page.

    Alternatively authors who do not select the gold open access option can choose a green open access route to publication.

    For more information on IOP Publishing's open access policies please see our Open access page. For our author rights policies please see our Author rights page.

    Copyright and permissions

    We work with our authors to make sure that they understand their rights and responsibilities when they publish in Fluid Dynamics Research. Information about copyright, permissions and our copyright form can be found on our Copyright page.

    Abstracting and indexing services

    We work with our authors to make help their work as easy to discover as possible. Fluid Dynamics Research is currently included in the following abstracting and discovery services:

    • ISI (SciSearch, Science Citation Index, Materials Science Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, ISI Alerting Services)
    • Scopus
    • Inspec
    • Aerospace Database
    • ASFA2 - Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources
    • Applied Mechanics Reviews
    • Chemical Abstracts Service
    • Compendex
    • Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
    • Current Mathematical Publications
    • El Compendex Plus
    • Engineering Index
    • Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database
    • Fluid Abstracts: Civil Engineering
    • Fluid Abstracts: Process Engineering
    • GEOBASE
    • GeoRef
    • INIS Atomindex (International Nuclear Information System)
    • Mathematical Reviews
    • MathSciNet
    • NASA Astrophysics Data System
    • Oceanographic Literature Review
    • Zentralblatt MATH