Flow Turbulence and Combustion
Flow Turbulence and Combustion is an international peer-reviewed journal of fluid dynamics, turbulence and combustion, issued by Springer Netherlands from Dordrecht, and it has carried the present title since 1998. Its journal impact factor for 2025 stands at 2.2, with a five-year figure of 2.4.《流动、湍流与燃烧》是一份面向流体力学、湍流与燃烧的国际同行评议期刊,由 Springer Netherlands 在多德雷赫特出版,自 1998 年起沿用现刊名,2025 年的期刊影响因子为 2.2,五年影响因子为 2.4。
Published in association with ERCOFTAC, the journal carries original research papers, fast-track short communications, reviews, and invited special and theme issues on fluid mechanics and reacting flows.该刊与 ERCOFTAC 合作出版,刊载原创研究论文、快速通道短讯、综述,以及围绕流体力学与反应流的特刊与专题约稿。
Scope
- The stated remit is to publish original and innovative research that helps solve fundamental and applied problems of single-phase, multi-phase and reacting flows, in idealized as well as real systems.该刊自述的宗旨是发表原创而有新意的研究,用以解决单相、多相与反应流在理想系统与真实系统中所遇到的基础问题与应用问题。
- Fluid dynamics, scalar transport, multi-physics interactions and flow control make up the four thematic areas named in the scope statement.在征稿说明里点名的四个方向是流体力学、标量输运、多物理场耦合与流动控制。
- Analytical, computational and experimental work all fall inside the scope, and papers are drawn from university departments as well as from industrial, environmental and geophysical research groups.解析、数值与实验三类研究都在收录之列,稿件既来自高校院系,也来自工业、环境与地球物理领域的研究机构。
- Turbulence, transition and the phenomena tied to them are expected to appear in most of the papers, which is the reason the journal carries the name it does.湍流、转捩及与之相伴的现象预计出现在多数论文之中,这也是该刊冠以此名的缘由。
- Work on laminar flows stays in scope as well, and the journal specifically welcomes studies of microfluidic devices, micro unmanned aerial vehicles, insect and bird wings, bio-medical applications and small-scale chemical-processing equipment.层流方面的研究同样在范围之内,该刊明确欢迎涉及微流控器件、微型无人飞行器、昆虫与鸟翼、生物医学应用以及小型化工设备的稿件。
- Originality, timeliness, quality and thematic fit carry equal weight in the editorial judgement, and relevance to real-world problems and industrial applications is treated as a strength.在编辑判断中,原创性、及时性、质量与主题契合度同样重要,与真实问题及工业应用的关联被视为长处。
- Full-length manuscripts form the main body of the published content, and every one of them passes through the same review machinery.完整篇幅的论文构成出版内容的主体,每一篇都经过同一套评审程序。
- Short communications of no more than six printed pages are encouraged as a fast-track format, and they may report new results, open a contentious topic or discuss a paper that has already been printed.不超过 6 个印刷页的短讯以快速通道形式受到鼓励,它可报道新结果、提出争议话题,或讨论已经刊出的论文。
- Revised short communications are settled by two editors rather than by the reviewers who first handled them, and a short paper that needs major revision continues as an ordinary manuscript.修改后的短讯由两位编辑定稿,而非由当初处理它的评审者定稿,需要大修的短讯随后按普通稿件的流程推进。
- Review articles synthesize a body of work, and the guidance for authors treats opinion pieces, commentaries and other non-research formats as distinct categories with rules of their own.综述类文章对一批研究工作作综合,投稿指南把观点文章、评论及其他非研究体裁列为各有规则的独立类别。
- The readership is international by design, and papers arrive from laboratories on several continents, with the metrics published by the journal itself showing more than four hundred thousand downloads in 2025.其读者群按国际范围经营,论文来自数个大洲的实验室,该刊自行公布的指标显示 2025 年下载量超过 42 万次。
- Current invited collections point to the direction of travel, with themes on machine learning for fluid dynamics, on direct and large-eddy simulation, and on modelling reacting flows for low-carbon fuels with the help of machine learning.当前开放的特刊约稿显示了该刊的走向,主题涉及流体力学中的机器学习、直接数值模拟与大涡模拟,以及借助机器学习对低碳燃料的反应流建模。
- Springer lists the journal under engineering fluid dynamics, fluid and aerodynamics, engineering thermodynamics with heat and mass transfer, automotive engineering and continuum mechanics.Springer 将该刊归入工程流体力学、流体与空气动力学、工程热力学与传热、汽车工程以及连续介质力学等学科。
History
- The line of the journal starts in 1948, when it appeared under the title Applied Scientific Research and reported general research results across the physical sciences.该刊的脉络始于 1948 年,当时它以 Applied Scientific Research 为刊名,报道物理科学各方向的普遍研究结果。
- The present name was adopted in 1998, and the wording of that name marks the turn towards the subject area the journal serves today.现用刊名于 1998 年启用,这一措辞标记了该刊转向今日所服务领域的时点。
- It was founded with Kluwer Academic Publishers in Dordrecht, and the catalogue record of the title still carries that imprint as the original place of publication.该刊由多德雷赫特的 Kluwer Academic Publishers 创刊,该刊的著录记录至今仍把这一承印方记为原始出版地。
- Springer later took the title over, and the current imprint reads Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, so the place of publication has never changed even though the owner has.Springer 后来接手了该刊,现行承印方记作多德雷赫特的 Springer Netherlands,出版地始终未变,只是持有者换了。
- The National Library of Medicine gives the main title its own form and records the Medline abbreviation Flow Turbul Combust, with the earliest volume it lists standing at 1998.美国国立医学图书馆为该刊著录了专用的题名形式,Medline 缩写记作 Flow Turbul Combust,其所列最早卷期年份为 1998。
- Publication runs monthly with four months left out, so no issue appears in February, May, August or November and eight numbers make up a year.该刊按月出版但每年空出四个月,二月、五月、八月与十一月都不出刊,一年共出 8 期。
- The journal runs a hybrid model, so subscription articles and freely readable ones sit side by side, and the share of gold open access articles reached 53.97 per cent in the 2025 edition of the indicator.该刊实行混合出版模式,订阅文章与可自由阅读的文章并行,2025 年版指标中金色开放获取文章占 53.97%。
- Continuous article publishing is in force, so a paper can appear online as soon as it has been accepted and be assigned to a printed issue later on.该刊实行连续出版,论文一经录用即可先行上线,其后再编入印刷期次。
- The journal has been linked with ERCOFTAC, the European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, which brings together universities, research institutes and industry across the field.该刊与 ERCOFTAC 这一欧洲流动、湍流与燃烧研究共同体保持合作,该组织把高校、科研机构与工业界聚集在同一领域内。
- Before the present pair, three editors-in-chief headed the journal, Frans Nieuwstadt, Kemo Hanjalic and Michael A. Leschziner, and the first of them is marked with a dagger for his death while the last still sits on the board.现任两位主编之前有三位主编先后主持该刊,即(Frans Nieuwstadt)、(Kemo Hanjalic)与(Michael A. Leschziner),其中(Frans Nieuwstadt)已去世,而(Michael A. Leschziner)如今仍留在编委名单中。
- The impact figure moved from 2.305 in 2021 and 2.566 in 2022 down to 2.0 in 2023, then back to 2.4 in 2024 and 2.2 in 2025, with a five-year value of 2.4.影响因子由 2021 年的 2.305 与 2022 年的 2.566 落到 2023 年的 2.0,随后回升到 2024 年的 2.4 与 2025 年的 2.2,五年影响因子为 2.4。
- Two subject categories place the journal in the third quartile of each, mechanics at 98 of 172 titles and thermodynamics at 44 of 78.该刊落在两个学科类目的第三区,分别是力学类的 172 种期刊中列第 98 位,以及热力学类的 78 种期刊中列第 44 位。
- The print identifier is 1386-6184 and the electronic one 1573-1987, and the journal's own pages report a median of 20 days from submission to a first decision.印刷版标识号为 1386-6184,电子版为 1573-1987,该刊网页报告从投稿到首次决定的中位数为 20 天。
Editors
- Two editors-in-chief run the journal today, Andreas M. Kempf of the University of Duisburg-Essen and Maria Vittoria Salvetti of the University of Pisa.现任两位主编分别是来自杜伊斯堡-埃森大学的(Andreas M. Kempf)与来自比萨大学的(Maria Vittoria Salvetti)。
- Kempf works on combustion measurement at a faculty of mechanical engineering, while Salvetti leads a group in Pisa that studies turbulence, combustion and the fluid mechanics of machinery.Kempf 在机械工程院系从事燃烧测量方面的研究,Salvetti 在比萨带领一个研究组,关注湍流、燃烧与机械内部的流体流动。
- A board of eleven editors supports the two chiefs, and they come from Germany, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and France.两位主编之下设有 11 位编辑,分属德国、日本、美国、英国、澳大利亚与法国。
- The eleven editors are drawn from institutions including the Technische Universität Darmstadt, the Keio University, the Imperial College London, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.这 11 位编辑分别来自慕尼黑工业大学、庆应义塾大学、伦敦帝国理工学院、佐治亚理工学院与卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院等机构。
- An editorial advisory board of forty-two members widens the reach further, and the names on it come from more than a dozen countries, among them France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Brazil and the United States.另有 42 人的编辑顾问委员会,成员来自十余个国家,其中有法国、德国、荷兰、瑞典、意大利、西班牙、中国、日本、韩国、澳大利亚、巴西与美国。
- Manuscripts go through a single-blind procedure, in which the referees stay anonymous while the authors are known to the editor handling the paper.稿件实行单盲评审,评审人身份对作者保密,作者身份对处理该稿的编辑则是明确的。
- A paper is normally handled by two or three referees drawn from the relevant research community together with one editor, and nothing is accepted without two complete and final reviews.一篇论文通常由 2 至 3 位来自相应研究共同体的评审人与 1 位编辑共同处理,没有两份完整而最终的评审意见便不予录用。
- Reviewers are invited by the editor and chosen by the editors-in-chief, and the board tries to steer clear of people closely connected to the authors, such as frequent collaborators, former students or former supervisors.评审人由编辑邀请并由两位主编挑选,编委会尽力避开与作者关系密切的人,诸如常合作的同事、昔日的学生或以往的导师。
- Papers that need major revision are usually looked at again by the original referees, while a paper needing only minor changes is often settled by the editors alone.需要大修的论文通常仍由原评审人复核修改稿,只需小改的论文则多由编辑自行处理。
- Special issues run on the same standard as ordinary papers, and the guest editors there assign at least two referees to each contribution, make recommendations and evaluate the revisions.特刊论文按与普通论文相同的标准评审,特刊的客座编辑为每篇稿件指派至少 2 位评审人,提出处理建议并评估修改稿。
- Final decisions on special issue papers rest with the editors-in-chief, and a paper written by a guest editor is passed to an editor outside that issue so that the assessment stays independent.特刊论文的最终决定权在两位主编手中,客座编辑本人撰写的稿件则交由该特刊之外的编辑处理,以保持评审独立。
- Board members may submit their own work, which is accepted only if the editor and the referees can be kept confidential, and such papers receive no preference in the process.编委成员也可投稿,此类稿件只有在处理该稿的编辑与评审人身份能够保密时才会被考虑,编委投稿在流程中不享任何优先。
- The journal runs on the Springer Nature submission platform, and articles reach readers under a hybrid arrangement in which the open access option is paid for by the author while the subscription edition stays available to libraries.该刊使用 Springer Nature 的投稿平台,文章以混合出版方式面向读者,开放获取选项由作者付费,订阅版本则继续供各图书馆使用。
- A median of 20 days elapses between a submission and a first decision, and accepted papers are published continuously online, a digital object identifier being assigned at that first publication.从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 20 天,论文录用后即在线连续出版,首次出版时便分配数字对象标识符。