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Focus and Coverage
Physics of Fluids is published by the American Institute of Physics with the cooperation of The American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. The journal is devoted to the publication of original theoretical, computational, and experimental contributions to the dynamics of gases, liquids, and complex or multiphase fluids. Content is published online daily, collected into monthly online and printed issues (12 issues per year).
2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)*:
Among the Top 3 highly cited journals in both Fluids & Plasmas Physics and Mechanics (Thomson Reuters, 2012)
| Five-Year Impact Factor | 2.075 |
| Impact Factor | 1.926 |
| Immediacy Index | 0.355 |
| Cited Half-Life | >10.0 |
| EigenFactor Score | 0.04529 |
| Article Influence Score | 0.991 |
* Data from the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2012).
Editors
- John Kim
- University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- L. Gary Leal
- University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Associate Editor for Letters
- E. John Hinch
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Distinguished Editor
- 1982–1997: Andreas Acrivos
Founding Editor
- 1958–1981: François N. Frenkiel
Associate Editors
- Term ending 31 December 2013
- Jonathan B. Freund (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA)
- Ellen K. Longmire (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
- Parviz Moin (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)
- Stephen B. Pope (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
- Patrick Tabeling (Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris Microfluidique, Paris, France)
- Fabian Waleffe (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA)
- Term ending 31 December 2014
- Michael P. Brenner (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
- Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)
- Eckardt Meiburg (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
- David Quere (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
- Eric S. G. Shaqfeh (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)
- Howard A. Stone (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)
- Term ending 31 December 2015
- Haecheon Choi (Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea)
- Harindra J. Fernando (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA)
- E. John Hinch (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
- George M. Homsy (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
- Eric Lauga (University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA)
- Peter J. Schmid (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau cedex, France)
- Marjorie Hayes
- Physics of Fluids Editorial Office
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
- Telephone: 516-576-2347
- E-mail: pof-edoffice@aip.org
- Stacey Morse
- Physics of Fluids Editorial Office
- Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department
- University of California, Los Angeles
- 420 Westwood Plaza
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597, USA
- Telephone: 516-576-2347
- E-mail: pof-edoffice@aip.org
- Editorial Supervisor
- Physics of Fluids
- American Institute of Physics
- Suite 1NO1
- 2 Huntington Quadrangle
- Melville, NY 11747-4502, USA
- Telephone: +1 516-576-2414
- Fax: +1 516-576-2233
- E-mail: phf@aip.org
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ISSN and CODEN
Print: ISSN 1070-6631
Online: ISSN 1089-7666
CODEN: PHFLE6









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