About this journal

The  International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics publishes innovative CFD research, both fundamental and applied, in a wide variety of fluids and physics fields.

The Journal emphasizes accurate predictive tools for 3D flow analysis and design, and those promoting a deeper understanding of the physics of 3D fluid motion.

Submitted papers should cover CFD algorithms, methods and applications relevant to current research and applied CFD challenges.

Innovative multidisciplinary and multiphysics applications, High Performance Computing, from RANS levels to scale-resolving methodologies, are encouraged.

Submissions restricted to 1D, 2D or inviscid models will be considered only under exceptional conditions of algorithmic innovation. Variants of existing algorithms will not be considered.

Double-anonymized peer review process

All initial submissions and revisions are done online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

All articles accepted for review undergo a rigorous double-anonymized peer review based on an initial Editors’ screening, followed by refereeing from international experts.

Guidance to authors

Authors are encouraged to, as much as possible, address the following points in their paper:

• The order of accuracy of the numerical method;
• The method’s verification against closed-form, manufactured or other highly-accurate numerical solutions;
• The method’s validation against reliable results: experimental or other numerical solutions, clearly explaining the advantages of the proposed method;
• The level of grid dependence of results;
• The method’s iterative convergence.

• The IJCFD publishes Short Communications that represent significant incremental changes or advances to an existing CFD methodology, that merit fast publication in the permanent literature;
• Short Communications are limited to 3000 words;
• Short Communications receive the same scrutiny as full articles and authors are reminded of the IJCFD stance on the use of commercial or open-source codes.
  

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Professor Wagdi G. Habashi
Director, CFD Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Wagdi Habashi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal and directs its CFD Laboratory. Professor Habashi holds B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from McGill and a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from Cornell University. He had held 3 successive 5-year NSERC Industrial Research Chairs sponsored by Bombardier Aerospace, Bell Helicopter, CAE Simulators and Lockheed Martin, focusing on Multi-physics Analysis and Design of Aerospace Systems from the subsonic to the hypersonic regimes. He has been an aerodynamics consultant to Pratt & Whitney Canada for 24 years and was its first external Fellow. As an entrepreneur, he established Newmerical Technologies International, well-known for advanced in-flight icing CFD software, now distributed by Ansys. His research interests span finite element and volume methods, turbomachinery, in-flight icing, hypersonics and automatic mesh optimization. He is the author of over 450 technical publications. He is a Chevalier (Knight) de l’Ordre national du Québec, a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and is the recipient of many scientific and industrial awards, among them the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, the James C. Floyd Award from the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, the McCurdy Award from the Canadian Aerospace & Space Institute, and the Killam Prize; Canada’s highest scientific distinction.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Professor Jack R. Edwards
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Jack R. Edwards holds the Angel Family Professorship of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at North Carolina State University. He also currently serves as Program Manager for the Army Research Office’s Fluid Dynamics program, under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act agreement. Dr. Edwards received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from North Carolina State and joined the faculty in 1994. From 2016-2020, he served as Associate Department Head and Director of Undergraduate Programs in MAE, and from 2020-2022, he served as Director of Aerospace Research. His research interests are in CFD algorithms development, simulation and modeling of turbulent, reacting and multi-phase flows. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and is the author of over 250 technical publications. His research has been supported by AFOSR, ARO, ONR, U.S. EPA, DARPA, DTRA, NASA, NSF, Sandia National Labs and AFRL, among others.

Professor Charles Hirsch
Professor Emeritus, Department of Fluid Mechanics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Charles Hirsch is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fluid Mechanics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He holds an Ingénieur Civil Physicien, an M.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Aerodynamics from l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. Professor Hirsch is a prolific scientist with many journals, conferences and book publications. His research contributions encompass CFD for internal and external flows, aerospace, turbomachinery, turbulence, wind engineering and bio-fluid dynamics. He is actively involved in major European Framework Programmes and is the Founding Chairman of ERCOFTAC (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion) and a Founding Member of ECCOMAS (European Committee on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences). As an entrepreneur, he established NUMECA International, well known for advanced CFD software, now distributed by Cadence. Professor Hirsch is a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, has received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the St. Petersburg State Technical University and is an Honorary Professor of Xian Jiaotong University. He is the recipient of many prizes and honours.

Professor Takahiro Kurahashi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan

Takahiko Kurahashi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Nagaoka University of Technology in Japan. He received a B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Civil Engineering from Chuo University in Tokyo. He then worked for 2 years as a consultant for water-related work such as rivers, waterworks and sewage and returned to Chuo University to obtain a Ph.D. in 2007. After working as a researcher at Kyushu University, he began in 2008 his academic career at the Nagaoka University of Technology. In the past decade, he has focused on inverse analysis to determine optimal shape and state, a research area that is a forerunner of Digital Twin technology. He has also served as public relations committee Chair at the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)’s Division of Computational Mechanics.

Professor Rho Shin Myong
Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea

Rho Shin Myong is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, Republic of Korea and Director of the Research Center for Aircraft Core Technology grouping several Korean Universities. Professor Myong received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as a National Research Council Research Associate at the Space Data and Computing Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His research interests include aerodynamic analysis and design, CFD and magnetohydrodynamics, rarefied gas dynamics, hypersonics, kinetic theory, aircraft icing and lightning. Professor Myong served as the Chair of the 32nd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics held in 2022. He has been the recipient of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI)-KSAS Aerospace Achievement Award in 2021, the most prestigious award from the Korean Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences (KSAS). He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Dr. Philippe R. Spalart
formerly with Boeing and NASA

Philippe Spalart studied Mathematics and Engineering in Paris and obtained an Aerospace Ph.D. at Stanford University/NASA-Ames in 1982. Still at Ames, he conducted Direct Numerical Simulations of transitional and turbulent boundary layers. Moving to Boeing in 1990, he created the Spalart-Allmaras (SA) one-equation Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence model in wide use presently. He wrote a review and co-holds a patent on airplane trailing vortices. In 1997 he proposed the Detached-Eddy Simulation (DES) approach, blending RANS and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) to address separated flows at high Reynolds numbers with a manageable cost. He became a Boeing Senior Technical Fellow in 2007, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 and received the AIAA Reed Award in 2019. His papers have been cited 45,000 times. His recent work includes refinements to the SA model and DES, computational aeroacoustics, theories for aerodynamics and turbulence and the design of research experiments. He retired from Boeing in 2020.

Professor Zhi Jian Wang
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Zhi Jian (Z.J.) Wang holds the Spahr Professorship of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kansas. He received his B.Sc. in Applied Mechanics from the National University of Defense Technology, China and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Glasgow. His research interests include adaptive high-order methods, large eddy simulation, and high-performance computing on CPU and GPU clusters. Dr. Wang has edited a book, written many review articles, co-organized multiple International Workshops on High-Order CFD Methods and advocated their applications to real-world flow problems. He has published over 270 journal and conference papers on CFD algorithms and applications. He was honored with the degree of Doctor of Science in Engineering by the University of Glasgow in 2008 and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Professor Kun Xu
Mathematics Department, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P.R. China

Kun Xu holds the Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Professorship of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received a B.S. in Astrophysics from Peking University, a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Columbia University, and was a post-doctoral researcher in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He has been at the Mathematics Department of HKUST since 1996 and is Department Head since 2021. His research interests are in CFD numerical algorithms development, including gas-kinetic schemes (GKS), unified GKS (UGKS) and unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) methods. The methodology underlying the UGKS has been successfully applied to the modeling and computation of multiscale transport, such as rarefied flows, radiative transfer, neutron transport, plasma physics and gas-solid particles two-phase flows.

Academician Sergei K. Godunov - Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Professor Emeritus Ernst H. Hirschel - Zorneding, Germany
Professor Anthony Jameson - University of Texas, Austin, USA
Professor Emeritus Mutsuto Kawahara - Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Emeritus Hirotoshi Kubota - University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Academician Yuri Shokin - Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal - Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, USA
Professor Hasan U. Akay - Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey
Professor Avijit Chatterjee - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Dr. Murali Damodaran - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Professor Luís Eça - IST University of Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Kozo Fujii - Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Professor Serhat Hosder - Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Dr. Guillaume Houzeaux - Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Dario Isola - Archer Aviation, USA
Professor Sanjay Mittal - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Professor Paul D. Orkwis - University of Cincinnati, USA
Professor Simona Perotto - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Professor Venkat Raman - University of Michigan, USA
Professor Gianluigi Rozza - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste, Italy
Professor Tony Saad - University of Utah, USA
Professor Chengwen Zhong - Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China

Updated 19-05-2023

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