International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics

Aims & Scope

International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics is a peer-reviewed open access journal on fundamental and applied research in combustion and spray dynamics.

Fundamental topics include advances in understanding unsteady combustion, combustion instability and noise, flame-acoustic interaction and its active and passive control, duct acoustics, blow out and flash back, deflagration and detonations, droplet and spray dynamics and combustion, atomisation, droplet and spray-acoustic interactions.

Applied topics include all aspects of combustion instabilities in solid and liquid rocket motors and gas turbine combustors, combustion noise, pulse detonation engines, active control of combustion instabilities and active control of sprays.

As well as original contributions, state of the art reviews and surveys will be published.

Subtopics include, among others, experimental diagnostics of combustion dynamics, computational combustion including RANS and LES for the study of combustion dynamics, unsteady fluid mechanics, mixing, system identification and low order modelling of dynamic phenomena, role of coherent structures in combustion dynamics, flame response measurements and calculation, non-normality and nonlinearity in flame acoustic interaction, analytical acoustics, liquid sheet break-up and stability, active control of sprays, experimental diagnostics of sprays, modelling of spray break-up phenomena, two phase flow modelling and spray and droplet combustion.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.1
2024	1.40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9537

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	99

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.608

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	25

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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 Energy, Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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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.

• Loss of Chaos in Combustion Noise as a Precursor of Impending Combustion Instability

  Citation: 138

  Authors: Vineeth, Gireehkumaran, Sulochana, Saravanan, R. I.

• Entropy noise: A review of theory, progress and challenges

  Citation: 115

  Authors: Aimee S, Ignacio

• Bifurcation Analysis of Thermoacoustic Instability in a Horizontal Rijke Tube

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Priya, Sathesh, R. I., Pankaj

• About the Zero Mach Number Assumption in the Calculation of Thermoacoustic Instabilities

  Citation: 84

  Authors: F., K.

• The use of OH* and CH* as heat release markers in combustion dynamics

  Citation: 77

  Authors: Swanand, Michael, William

• Triggering in a Thermoacoustic System with Stochastic Noise

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Iain C., Matthew P.

• Dynamics of Practical Premixed Flames, Part I: Model Structure and Identification

  Citation: 60

  Authors: A., W.

• A Review on Empirical Correlations for Jet/Spray Trajectory of Liquid Jet in Uniform Cross Flow

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Soo-Young

• Dynamics of Practical Premixed Flames, Part II: Identification and Interpretation of CFD Data

  Citation: 53

  Authors: A., W.

• Non-normality and nonlinearity in thermoacoustic instabilities

  Citation: 52

  Authors: RI, MP, PJ

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