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journal-of-fluid-mechanics
GitHub用于评估流体力学稿件是否符合JFM期刊标准。聚焦基础物理机制洞察，非应用导向。提供选题定位、方法验证要求及拒稿预判，辅助作者重构叙事或选择合适 venue。
Trigger Scenarios
作者询问稿件是否适合JFM
需将工程模拟重构为物理机制贡献
在JFM与应用型期刊间做选择
需要了解JFM的物理深度门槛
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-fluid-mechanics -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-fluid-mechanics",
"description": "Use when targeting the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) or deciding whether a fundamental fluid-mechanics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the physical-understanding bar across analysis\/computation\/experiment, the insight-not-application scope, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Journal of Fluid Mechanics (journal-of-fluid-mechanics)
Journal positioning
The Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM), published by Cambridge University Press, is a leading archival journal for fundamental fluid mechanics. It publishes analytical, computational, and experimental studies whose purpose is physical understanding of fluid phenomena — turbulence, hydrodynamic instabilities, multiphase and interfacial flows, geophysical and biological flows, and the dynamics that govern them. The defining expectation is new insight into the mechanics of a flow, not a demonstration that a method or device works. Applied CFD of a specific piece of equipment, or a parametric simulation with no extracted physics, is a poor fit. JFM values clean problem formulation, careful evidence, and an interpretation that advances how the community understands the flow. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author instructions. Before submitting, re-check the live JFM author information.
When to trigger
- The author names JFM for a fluid-mechanics manuscript and wants a fit/framing check.
- A flow study must be re-framed from "we simulated/measured this device" into a contribution to the physical understanding of a fluid phenomenon.
- The author is choosing between JFM and an applied-CFD, engineering-application, or physics-family venue.
- The author needs JFM's physical-insight bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Turbulence: transition, coherent structures, wall-bounded and free-shear flows, turbulence modeling when it yields mechanistic understanding.
- Hydrodynamic stability and instabilities: linear/nonlinear analysis, bifurcation, and the route to complex flow states.
- Multiphase, interfacial, and free-surface flows: drops, bubbles, films, capillarity, and phase-change-coupled dynamics with a mechanics contribution.
- Geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics: stratified, rotating, convective, and buoyancy-driven flows.
- Biological and low-Reynolds-number flows: swimming, flow in/around organisms, microfluidic and suspension mechanics with fundamental insight.
- Compressible flows, waves, and vortex dynamics when the advance is physical understanding rather than a specific configuration.
Method & evidence bar
- The central claim is new physical understanding of a flow — a mechanism, scaling law, instability, or governing balance — supported by analysis, well-resolved computation, or controlled experiment.
- Computation must be verified and adequately resolved, with the physics extracted; an under-resolved or unvalidated CFD run of one geometry is not evidence.
- Experiments must report flow conditions, diagnostics, and uncertainty, and isolate the phenomenon of interest with appropriate controls.
- Analysis must be mathematically careful: clear governing equations, justified approximations (scaling, asymptotics), and self-consistent derivations.
- Position against the closest fluid-mechanics results: what new regime, mechanism, or scaling does the work establish relative to prior understanding.
- Reproducibility: report governing equations, boundary/initial conditions, numerical schemes or experimental setups in enough detail to reconstruct the study.
Structure & house style
- Standard full-length research-article structure; JFM also publishes shorter Rapids for concise high-impact results — match scope to article type and re-check current definitions on the live guide.
- The introduction frames the fluid-mechanics question and the gap in understanding, not an engineering application.
- Equations and notation follow standard fluid-mechanics conventions and must be internally consistent; nondimensionalization and key parameters (Reynolds, etc.) stated clearly.
- Figures are load-bearing: flow visualizations with quantification, spectra, scaling collapses, and theory-vs-data/computation comparisons.
- Supplementary material and movies carry extended data; the main text must establish the central physical insight on its own.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the Cambridge University Press anchors, then cite the current JFM author-information page you checked. - Search the live site for "Journal of Fluid Mechanics information for authors" and follow the current Cambridge/submission-system version.
- Re-check article types (full article vs. Rapids), length/figure expectations, and the JFM style/template conventions.
- Confirm data-availability, supplementary-movie, and reproducibility expectations for computational and experimental work.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure requirements, and any open-access options.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The contribution is new physical understanding of a flow (mechanism / scaling / instability), not a device demonstration.
- Computations are verified and resolved, and the physics is extracted — not a single unvalidated CFD run.
- Experiments report conditions, diagnostics, and uncertainty, and isolate the phenomenon.
- Analysis has clear governing equations and justified approximations, with key dimensionless parameters stated.
- Novelty is pinned to specific prior fluid-mechanics results (new regime / mechanism / scaling).
- The article type (full vs. Rapids) and length fit JFM's format.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Applied CFD of a specific device or geometry with no fluid-mechanics insight extracted.
- Under-resolved or unvalidated simulations presented as physical evidence.
- Parametric study reporting numbers with no mechanism, scaling, or governing balance.
- Experiment-only flow report with no quantification, uncertainty, or mechanics interpretation.
- Scope mismatch: a heat-transfer-equipment, chemical-process, or numerical-methods paper with fluid mechanics as a label.
- Better framed as an engineering-application or computational-methods contribution.
Re-routing decision
- Broad-audience high-impact fluid-physics discovery →
nature-physics(conceptual-advance bar) orscience-advances. - Solid-mechanics rather than fluid mechanics →
journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids. - Manufacturing/process flow where the device is the point →
international-journal-of-machine-tools-and-manufacture. - Aerospace-flow review/survey rather than primary research →
progress-in-aerospace-sciences. - Applied-CFD methods or engineering-configuration focus → a computational-fluids or applications venue.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of Fluid Mechanics
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest fluid-mechanics subtopics>
[Insight] <the new physical understanding of the flow in one line>
[Method/evidence] <does the analysis/computation/experiment clear JFM's physical-insight bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Article type] full article / Rapids
[Official items to re-check] <article type / length / data-movie / template / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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