Physical Review Fluids
Physical Review Fluids is a trusted journal for high-quality, significant developments in fluid dynamics. It welcomes both traditional and novel research topics, including bio-related fluid dynamics, micro and nanoscale flows, fluid mechanics of complex fluids and soft materials, and geophysical and environmental flows.
Close Ties with the Community
PRFluids is strongly supported by APS’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD). Since 2017, DFD’s François Frenkiel Award for fluid mechanics is conferred upon a young investigator in recognition of a significant contribution to the field that has been published in PRFluids. PRFluids publishes invited papers from the Annual APS DFD meeting, as well as winning entries from the meeting’s Gallery of Fluid Motion, an exhibition of fluid research images. PRFluids coordinates with other members of the Physical Review family of journals to serve new subspecialties as they develop, and it closely interacts with the DFD board to expand its scope into emerging research areas of fluid dynamics.
PRFluids publishes detailed research articles as well as Letters, which are short accessible papers of particular importance. The journal has a flexible approach to article lengths and welcomes submission of longer papers that provide depth and authority in their subject areas.
By Scientists, For Scientists
Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, PRFluids is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This ensures that its mission, standards, and policies prioritize the needs of researchers and the broader scientific community; this commitment is reinforced by APS’s promise as a founding member of the Purpose-Led Publishing coalition.
PRFluids covers all aspects of fluid dynamics research, including:
- Biological and biomedical flows
- Combustion fluid mechanics and reacting flows
- Complex and non-Newtonian fluids
- Compressible and rarefied flows, kinetic theory
- Convection
- Drops, bubbles, capsules and vesicles
- Electrokinetic phenomena, electrohydrodynamics, and magnetohydrodynamics
- Geophysical, geological, urban and ecological flows
- Instability, transition, and control
- Interfacial phenomena and flows
- Laminar and viscous flows
- Micro- and nanofluidics
- Multiphase, granular, and particle-laden flows
- Nonlinear dynamical systems
- Transport and mixing
- Turbulent flows
- Vortex dynamics
- Wave dynamics, free surface flows, stratified and rotating flows
- Methods for New Experiments, Algorithms, and Theory (NEAT)
Submitted manuscripts should meet the following criteria:
- Add to the existing knowledge related to flow physics that contributes to
- The fundamental understanding of the subject; and/or,
- Presents a new methodology, and its validation, that demonstrates potential for substantial discovery in fluid dynamics.
- Represent an authoritative and substantive addition to the body of literature.
At the core of APS's mission is a commitment to meeting the needs of physicists, a community that has been at the leading edge of open access. As a result, APS supports a variety of sustainable access options:
- Authors can pay an article publication charge (APC) to make accepted manuscripts immediately accessible under a CC-BY (4.0 International) license. In keeping with APS's community-orientation, this is the most permissive license available and permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work with proper attribution. APCs cover all costs and decrease the need for subscription revenue, helping to keep subscription price-per-article low (current APS APCs).
- APS makes its journals free to read at U.S. public libraries and high schools by application. Contact publisher@aps.org for more information.
- APS is a founding member of CHORUS, which enables distributed public access to published research articles reporting on U.S. federal government funded research.
- APS offers authors from lower income countries the opportunity to publish Open Access at no cost by automatically offering APC waivers for articles accepted into all Hybrid and Gold Open Access titles. Learn more here.
- APS provides free access to its subscription-based journals content for readers in lower income countries through partnerships with Research4Life and other programs. Learn more here.
Editorial Board
The PRFluids Editorial Board is a diverse, global group of active, distinguished scientists, selected by editors and appointed by the Executive Editor. Board members serve three-year terms. They may be requested by the editors to advise at any stage of the review process and they serve as adjudicators in formal appeals.
Editorial Team
PRFluids is managed by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists with extensive research experience at major academic institutions and research laboratories around the world. All editorial decisions are based on PRFluids acceptance criteria.
High Visibility and Impact
PRFluids authors gain high visibility and achieve broad dissemination of their work in this new fluid dynamics journal. PRFluids editors bring attention to outstanding research and elucidate its importance through a number of features:
- Editors’ Suggestions: Selected papers are chosen as Editors’ Suggestions to direct readers to interesting, important, and well-written articles in areas of research beyond their usual interests. They garner, on average, more downloads and citations than other papers published in the journal and are more frequently covered by news outlets.
- Collections: PRFluids publishes highly selective collections of refereed papers associated with conferences, such as invited talks at the Annual APS DFD Meeting.
- Gallery of Fluid Motion: PRFluids publishes award winning fluid research images from the Annual APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion.
- Online Visibility: Newly published papers are accompanied on the journal’s website with short descriptions (teasers) and key images.
- Featured in Physics: Editors regularly notify Physics, APS’s daily online news and commentary publication, about important papers, resulting in coverage in the forms of Synopsis, Focus, or Viewpoint.
- Publicity: APS promotes press-worthy papers from its journals to journalists through a weekly Tip Sheet, resulting in frequent coverage in industry publications and the popular press, such as Physics World and Business Insider.
- Indexing: ISI (Science Citation Index®), Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar
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Editorial and Publishing Policies
All journals published by APS follow a common set of Editorial Policies and Practices, which cover Editorial Oversight and Decision Making, Authorship, Submissions, Resubmissions, and Transfers, Peer Review, Ethics and Research Integrity, Post Publication, and Open Access and Publications Rights.
PRFluids is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six-digit article number, for example, Journal 1, XXXXXX (2020).
PRFluids editors can decide to accelerate the review process for a small number of manuscripts that report particularly important or groundbreaking research.