Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Aims & Scope

Environmental Fluid Mechanics is devoted to the publication of basic and applied studies broadly relating to natural fluid systems, particularly as agents for the transport and dispersion of environmental contamination.

Understanding transport and dispersion processes in natural fluid flows, from the microscale to the planetary scale, serves as the basis for the development of models aimed at simulations, predictions, and ultimately sustainable environmental management.

Within this scope, the subject areas are diverse and may originate from a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines: civil, mechanical and environmental engineering, meteorology, hydrology, hydraulics, limnology, and oceanography.

The editors welcome reviews and original articles treating the atmosphere (on all spatial scales), surface water (wetlands, rivers, lakes, estuaries and oceans), and laboratory simulations of natural flows (thermals, plumes, jets, etc.).

In addition, the journal is a medium for the publication of interdisciplinary studies on the interactions between natural fluid systems and their boundaries (ex. air-water surface exchanges, bottom sedimentation and resuspension, and exchanges between surface and subsurface waters) as well as interactions between fluids and their contents (ex. chemical and biological loads).

Articles reporting observational, experimental, modeling and theoretical investigations are all appropriate.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.1
2024	1.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.528

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	58

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11014

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	390

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The Structure of the Shear Layer in Flows over Rigid and Flexible Canopies

  Citation: 326

  Authors: Marco, Heidi

• Integral Model for Turbulent Buoyant Jets in Unbounded Stratified Flows. Part I: Single Round Jet

  Citation: 251

  Authors: Gerhard H.

• A comparison of standard k–ε and realizable k–ε turbulence models in curved and confluent channels

  Citation: 241

  Authors: Rawaa, Abdolmajid, Hossein

• Interaction between flow, transport and vegetation spatial structure

  Citation: 226

  Authors: Mitul, Jeffrey, Heidi

• Filament-Based Atmospheric Dispersion Model to Achieve Short Time-Scale Structure of Odor Plumes

  Citation: 216

  Authors: Jay A., John, Xuezhu, Wei, Ring T.

• Monitoring the transport of biomass burning emissions in South America

  Citation: 202

  Authors: Saulo R., Karla M., Maria A. F., Pedro L., Robert, Elaine, Paulo, Georg A., Fernando S.

• Urban Fluid Mechanics: Air Circulation and Contaminant Dispersion in Cities

  Citation: 172

  Authors: H.J.S., S.M., J., M., E., S.

• A framework for evaluating regional-scale numerical photochemical modeling systems

  Citation: 166

  Authors: Robin, Tyler, Montse, Alice, Steven, Christian, John, S. Trivikrama, Richard, Kenneth, Douw, Akula

• Turbulent air–water flows in hydraulic structures: dynamic similarity and scale effects

  Citation: 162

  Authors: H.

• Mass Transport in Vegetated Shear Flows

  Citation: 161

  Authors: Marco, Heidi

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