Atomization and Sprays

Atomization and Sprays (commonly abbreviated as At. Sprays) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Begell House, founded in the United States in 1991 and issued monthly. It is the only specialist title covering the whole atomization-to-spray chain, taking in fundamental modelling, diagnostic techniques and engineering applications alike.《雾化与喷雾》（Atomization and Sprays，常用缩写为 At. Sprays）是由贝格尔出版社出版的同行评审学术期刊，1991 年创刊于美国，月刊发行。该刊是喷雾与雾化领域唯一覆盖二者全链条的专业刊物，兼收基础理论建模、诊断技术与工程应用。

Scope

Atomization and Sprays takes the stance that this is a discipline rather than a by-product, requiring each paper to break through at least one of four layers, the nozzle, the liquid film, the droplet and the gas-liquid flow, rather than simply rerunning industrial parameters. Its principal subject areas include:Atomization and Sprays 的取稿立场是把喷雾当作一门独立学科来处理，要求论文在喷嘴、液膜、液滴与气液两相流四个层面上至少打通一处，而非把工业参数换一套而已。收文范围覆盖的主要方向包括：

• Atomization physics: instability and breakup of liquid sheets, criteria for primary and secondary breakup, and the regime transitions governed by Weber and Ohnesorge numbers.雾化机理： 液膜失稳与破碎过程、一次与二次破碎判据、韦伯数与奥内佐格数控制的形态转变。
• Nozzles and novel atomizers: design of pressure, air-assisted and ultrasonic atomizers, cavitation and flashing effects, and internal flow in additively manufactured nozzles.喷嘴与新型雾化器： 压力式、气流式与超声雾化器的设计、空化与闪蒸效应、增材制造喷嘴的内部流动。
• Spray diagnostics: phase Doppler anemometry and particle image velocimetry, laser-induced fluorescence and X-ray imaging, and online measurement of droplet size and velocity.喷雾诊断： 相位多普勒与粒子图像测速技术、激光诱导荧光与 X 射线成像、液滴尺寸与速度的在线测量。

• Numerical method: interface capturing and Lagrangian particle tracking, direct numerical and large-eddy simulation, and verification with validation of multiscale models.数值方法： 界面捕捉与拉格朗日颗粒追踪、直接数值模拟与大涡模拟、多尺度模型的验证与确认。
• Combustion sprays: fuel atomization in engines and gas turbines, evaporation with mixture formation, and links to emissions and combustion instability.燃烧喷雾： 内燃机与燃气轮机的燃油雾化、蒸发与混合气形成、排放与燃烧不稳定性的关联。
• Applied spraying: agricultural application with drift control, atomization for inhaled delivery, and jet stability in spray coating and additive manufacturing.应用喷雾： 农药喷洒与漂移控制、吸入给药雾化、喷涂与增材制造的射流稳定性。

Alongside engine sprays the journal covers applications of spraying to combustion, agricultural application with drift control, inhaled drug delivery and spray coating, requiring authors to give reproducible geometry and operating parameters.本刊还收二者之外的应用研究，并要求作者给出可为他人复用的几何与工况参数。

History

• Founding (1991): the journal opened with volume 1 number 1 covering January to March 1991, subtitled as the journal of the international institutions for liquid atomization and spray systems, and has served that community ever since.创刊（1991年）： 本刊于 1991 年以第 1 卷第 1 期（一月至三月）创刊，副题即为「国际液体雾化与喷雾系统学会会刊」，自起即为该社群的专属载体。
• Publisher transition: printing and distribution began with Hemisphere under Taylor & Francis and later passed wholesale to Begell House, which has continued the volume numbering without interruption.出版方更替： 创刊时由泰勒与弗朗西斯麾下的半球出版社承印，其后整体移交贝格尔出版社，并由后者接续卷号出版至今。
• Disciplinary context: atomization research had been scattered across combustion, chemical and agricultural engineering journals through the 1980s, and this title gathered disparate experimental and theoretical work into one place.学科背景： 二十世纪八十年代末雾化研究散见于燃烧、化工与农业工程诸刊，本刊的设立把分散在这些地块的试验与理论收拢到一处。
• Frequency: issues were sparse at first, later settled at four a year, and have since been tightened further to twelve issues a year.刊期演变： 本刊早年刊期较疏，其后改为每年四期的季刊，近年进一步加密为每年十二期的月刊。
• Standing in metrics: the impact factor has long sat near 1, standing at 1.0 in 2025, low-ranked across chemical, mechanical and materials categories, yet the field still regards it as the first choice for atomization subjects.指标处境： 影响因子长期处于 1 附近，2025 年为 1.0，在化工、机械与材料诸类目中徘徊于分区下游，但学界仍视其为喷雾题材的首选刊物。

Editors

An editor-in-chief directs the journal with an international board drawn largely from mechanical engineering, combustion and aerospace propulsion. Manuscripts are submitted online, and refereeing stresses reproducible data and reproducible apparatus. Neither the publisher nor the board publishes an acceptance rate or review duration for the title.本刊由主编统筹并设国际编委会，成员多来自机械工程、燃烧与航空动力诸领域；稿件经在线系统投递，评审强调数据可重复与装置可复现。出版方与编委会均未公布本刊的录用比例与审稿时长。

• Society link: the journal exists as the house journal of the international institutions for liquid atomization and spray systems, and papers from the biennial congress are frequently gathered into topical issues.与学会的联系： 本刊作为国际液体雾化与喷雾系统学会的会刊存在，学会双年会的专题稿件常就地结集刊发。
• Refereeing emphasis: the editorial office attends closely to the geometric specification of apparatus and to measurement uncertainty, and papers presenting numerical results without experimental comparison are usually asked to supply one.评审取向： 编辑部关注试验装置的几何交代与测量不确定度，仅有数值结果而缺少试验对照的稿件通常会被要求补作。
• Situation of a narrow title: the narrowness of its subject places the journal low in general bibliometric rankings, and the editorial office routinely reminds authors to cite both specialist work and that of neighbouring disciplines.小众刊的处境： 因学科面窄，本刊在通用文献计量体系中位次偏低，编辑部在稿约中常提醒作者兼顾引述本领域的专门文献与邻近学科的工作。