AIAA Journal

《AIAA 学报》是 1963 年随美国航空航天学会成立而创办的月刊，刊载航空航天科学与工程的基础研究。

刊物以理论与实验并重的方式推进空气动力学、推进、结构与相关物理问题，强调可以被后续研究引用的完整成果。

2025 年期刊影响因子为 3.2，五年影响因子为 3.3，在航空航天工程 59 种期刊中排第 12 位。

Scope

• Aerodynamics remains the largest subject area, from low-speed flows and wing design to transonic and hypersonic regimes.空气动力学仍是最大的主题领域，从低速流动与机翼设计到跨声速与高超声速范围。
• Aeroacoustics papers examine jet noise, fan noise and the propagation of sound from aircraft and launch vehicles.气动声学论文考察喷流噪声、风扇噪声以及飞机与运载器声音的传播。
• Combustion and reacting flows are studied with both detailed chemistry and reduced models, and validation against experiment is expected.燃烧与反应流研究同时使用详细化学机理与简化模型，并要求与实验对照验证。
• Propulsion fundamentals cover inlets, nozzles, turbomachinery, rocket engines and electric propulsion.推进基础涵盖进气道、喷管、叶轮机械、火箭发动机与电推进。
• Fluid mechanics includes turbulence modelling, boundary layers, separated flows and flow control.流体力学包括湍流建模、边界层、分离流动与流动控制。
• Plasmas and lasers appear in work on plasma-assisted flow control, laser diagnostics and directed energy.等离子体与激光出现在等离子体辅助流动控制、激光诊断与定向能研究中。
• Structural mechanics and materials are treated as coupled problems, with aeroelasticity, composites and thermal protection among the recurring themes.结构力学与材料被当作耦合问题处理，气动弹性、复合材料与热防护是反复出现的主题。
• Optimisation papers connect design variables to mission performance rather than reporting a single improved case.优化论文把设计变量与任务性能相连，而不是只报告一个改进算例。
• Thermophysics and thermochemistry cover ablation, radiative transfer and high-temperature gas properties.热物理与热化学涵盖烧蚀、辐射传热与高温气体性质。
• Experimental work reports facility, instrumentation and uncertainty, and computational papers must state grid and model sensitivity.实验研究报告设备、测量手段与不确定度，计算论文须说明网格与模型敏感性。
• Verification and validation studies are published when they set a benchmark that other groups can reuse.验证与确认研究在给出可供其他团队复用的基准时被发表。
• Multidisciplinary design work links aerodynamics, structures and control at the level of the vehicle concept.多学科设计把气动、结构与控制放在飞行器概念的层面联系起来。
• Unsteady aerodynamics and flight dynamics are studied for manoeuvring vehicles, rotorcraft and flexible wings.非定常空气动力学与飞行动力学针对机动飞行器、旋翼机与柔性机翼展开。
• Spacecraft and entry problems include rarefied flow, aerobraking and plume impingement.航天器与再入问题包括稀薄气体流动、气动制动与羽流冲击。
• Papers that review a subfield in depth are solicited when the editors judge the field has reached a useful synthesis.当编辑判断某一子领域已经形成有用的综合时，会约请深入综述。
• The journal asks for archival contributions, meaning results that remain citable after the immediate application has moved on.刊物要求具有存档价值的贡献，也就是在具体应用过去之后仍可被引用的结果。
• Authors are expected to separate physical insight from numerical demonstration, and to identify the regime in which a model holds.作者须把物理洞见与数值演示区分开，并说明模型适用的范围。
• Work with direct industrial application is welcome, provided the underlying science is generalised beyond the single design.具备直接工业应用的工作同样受欢迎，前提是其中的科学被推广到单一设计之外。

• Rotorcraft and urban air mobility papers examine rotor wakes, transition flight and the noise constraints that shape vehicle design.旋翼机与城市空中交通论文考察旋翼尾流、过渡飞行以及制约飞行器设计的噪声条件。
• Hypersonic work reports shock interactions, boundary-layer transition and thermal loads, and connects ground test with flight data where possible.高超声速研究报道激波干扰、边界层转捩与热载荷，并在可能时把地面试验与飞行数据相连。
• Grid and turbulence-model sensitivity studies are published when they quantify how a conclusion changes with resolution or closure.网格与湍流模型敏感性研究在量化结论随分辨率或封闭模型变化时被发表。

• Wind-tunnel and flight-test campaigns are reported with facility corrections and repeatability, so that the measurements can be reused.风洞与飞行试验的报告须给出设备修正与重复性，使测量数据可以被再次使用。

History

• The AIAA Journal appeared in 1963, the year the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics was formed by merging two predecessor societies.该刊于 1963 年问世，同年美国航空航天学会由两个前身学会合并成立。
• Its lineage runs back to the ARS Journal of the American Rocket Society and the Journal of the Aerospace Sciences.其谱系可以追溯到美国火箭学会的 ARS Journal 与《航空航天科学杂志》。
• The new society chose a single archive journal for fundamental work, with specialised titles added later for aircraft, propulsion and guidance.新学会为基础研究设立一份综合存档期刊，此后才按飞机、推进与制导分设专门刊物。
• The journal has been published from the society's office in Reston, Virginia, since the institute moved there.学会迁至弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿后，刊物一直在该地出版。
• It carried print issues for most of its history and became online only in 2022, when the society ended print production.刊物在大部分历史中以印刷版发行，2022 年学会停止印刷后转为纯网络出版。
• Impact factors ran at 2.127 in 2021, 2.624 in 2022, 2.1 in 2023, 2.8 in 2024 and 3.2 in 2025.影响因子在 2021 年为 2.127，2022 年为 2.624，2023 年为 2.1，2024 年为 2.8，2025 年为 3.2。
• The 2025 report counted 33682 citations, 439 articles and 439 citable items.2025 年报告统计该刊被引 33682 次，论文 439 篇，可引用条目 439 项。
• Gold open access is rare, at well under one percent of content, and the journal remains subscription based.金色开放获取占比很低，不足百分之一，刊物仍以订阅为主。
• Twelve issues appear each year, and articles are also posted individually ahead of the issue.刊物每年出版十二期，文章也会在成期之前单独上线。
• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and the major aerospace abstracts services.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版、Scopus 以及主要的航空航天文摘服务收录。
• Virtual collections gather papers on a single theme, such as hypersonics or urban air mobility, without displacing the regular issues.虚拟专辑围绕高超声速或城市空中交通等单一主题汇集论文，不占用常规期号。
• Manuscript handling runs through the society's editorial system, and production is managed by staff at the Reston headquarters.稿件处理通过学会的编辑系统进行，出版制作由雷斯顿总部的专职人员负责。
• The journal's archive is hosted on Aerospace Research Central together with the society's other titles.刊物的过刊与学会的其他期刊一起存放在 Aerospace Research Central 平台。

Editors

• Tom I-P. Shih of Purdue University is editor-in-chief and works on computational heat transfer, turbine cooling and fluid flow.普渡大学的 Tom I-P. Shih 是主编，研究计算传热、涡轮冷却与流体流动。
• Shih teaches heat transfer and turbomachinery at Purdue and edits with an emphasis on methodological rigour.Shih 在普渡大学讲授传热与叶轮机械，编辑工作中强调方法学的严谨。
• Fu Song of Tsinghua University has served as an associate editor, handling aerodynamics and transonic flow papers.清华大学的符松长期担任副编辑，处理空气动力学与跨声速流动稿件。
• Associate editors are grouped by discipline, covering fluid dynamics, structures and materials, propulsion, plasmas and thermophysics.副编辑按学科分组，覆盖流体力学、结构与材料、推进、等离子体与热物理。
• The editor is appointed by the society's publications committee, which also reviews the balance of the journal's coverage.主编由学会的出版委员会任命，该委员会同时审视刊物覆盖范围的平衡。
• An editorial advisory board brings in representatives of the technical committees, so that each subfield has a route into review.编辑顾问委员会吸收各技术委员会的代表，使每个子领域都有进入评审的通道。
• Reviewers are chosen from the committees, from universities and from government laboratories with flight or ground-test experience.审稿人从技术委员会、大学以及具备飞行或地面试验经验的政府实验室中挑选。
• Each manuscript normally receives at least two reports, and the associate editor weighs them before recommending a decision.每篇稿件通常收到至少两份评审意见，副编辑权衡之后提出决定建议。
• Editors distinguish archival contribution from conference value, and papers that merely restate a meeting presentation are returned.编辑区分存档贡献与会议价值，仅仅重复会议报告内容的稿件会被退回。
• A statistical check is applied when a paper's conclusions rest on fitted models or on experimental scatter.当论文的结论依赖拟合模型或实验离散度时，会另行做统计核查。
• Authors may appeal a decision to the editor, who consults the handling associate editor before responding.作者可以向主编申诉，主编在答复之前会征询负责该稿的副编辑。
• The board meets at the society's annual meeting to review submission trends and the split between theory and experiment.编委会在学会年会上会面，审视投稿趋势以及理论与实验稿件的比例。