A new Open Access journal from Cambridge University Press will highlight the many ways that advances in fluid mechanics – the study of how fluids flow and move – can be used to drive technological breakthroughs and unlock the secrets of the natural world.
Flow: Applications of Fluid Mechanics will cover the application of fluid mechanics to concrete problems across all fields, including technology, natural and medical sciences, and descriptions of the physical world.
Knowledge of fluid mechanics includes everything from energy production, the distribution of water for drinking and irrigation, flight and transportation, to biomedical devices and the exploration of space. It also plays a critical role in our understanding of living things and how they interact with the biosphere, from bacterial locomotion, to bird flight and the impact of human technology on the Earth's climate.
While other journals focus on fluid mechanics within specific subject areas, Flow will cast its net much wider, showcasing all applications to new technology, biology and descriptions of the physical world.
Juan G. Santiago, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
Flow will act as a companion journal to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM), which has covered the fundamental aspects of the discipline since it was founded by George K. Batchelor in 1956. The launch of Flow coincides with the 65th anniversary of JFM and the 100th anniversary of Batchelor’s birth.
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