The International Journal of Turbulence Explorations is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to interdisciplinary research on turbulence, with a primary focus on its physical mechanisms. The journal emphasizes innovation in novel ideas, theories, and models to advance turbulence studies across various natural science and engineering fields. We welcome high-quality original research articles, reviews, perspectives, case studies, highlights, letters, and commentaries. The key areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Fundamental Turbulence Mechanisms & Phenomena
Definition and rational model of turbulence
Flow instability and transition to turbulence
Nonlinear and linear mechanisms
Local finite analytical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations
Turbulence as spatiotemporal manifolds
Turbulence direct/inverse cascade and scaling laws
Turbulent structure and intermittency
Small-scale eddies in turbulence
Turbulent/non-turbulent interface (TNTI)
Structural (early) turbulence
High Reynolds number turbulence
Multiphysics-coupled turbulence
Energy dissipation and transfer
Mixing enhancement and turbulence decay
Disturbance effects related to Reynolds number
Unified mechanism of wall-bounded and free-boundary turbulence
Drag reduction and turbulence control
Onsager ideal turbulence and anomalous dissipation
Vortex dynamics based on Liutex/Rortex and their role in energy transfer and cascade processes
Specialized & Complex Turbulence
Non-Newtonian turbulence
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence
Compressible turbulence and high-speed aerodynamic turbulence
Multiphase turbulence and particle-laden turbulent flows
Rotating and stratified turbulence in geophysical and astrophysical flows
Atmospheric turbulence
Astronomical turbulence
Reacting turbulence and combustion turbulence with chemical kinetics
Turbulence-generated aeroacoustics and flow-induced noise
Quantum turbulence and superfluid turbulence
Active turbulence
Canonical Turbulence Systems
Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence (HIT)
Two-dimensional turbulence
Scalar turbulence
Wall-bounded turbulence
Free-shear turbulence
Thermal turbulence (Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence)
Double diffusive convection turbulence
Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) and Electrokinetic (EK) turbulence
Accurate experiments on controllable curved laminar flows with/without singularity
Plasma turbulence
Nonequilibrium turbulence
Research Methods, Techniques & Applications
High-fidelity numerical simulation and data-driven turbulence modeling
Turbulence over complex geometries and rough-wall boundary layers
Turbulence-generated aeroacoustics and flow-induced noise
Advanced experimental measurement and diagnostic techniques for turbulent flows
Artificial intelligence for turbulence physical mechanism discovery
AI-empowered numerical simulation, experimental measurement, and closed-loop control for turbulent flows
Topological pattern of streamlines around three-dimensional isotropic points
Tensorial method applied to turbulence
Applications of Liutex (Rortex) and related vortex identification methods in engineering and scientific flows
Computational Simulation
Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)
Turbulence models (turbulence closure models)
Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation with turbulence modeling
High-fidelity numerical simulation and data-driven turbulence modeling
Numerical methods for generalized convection-diffusion systems and their applications in turbulence
Other approaches, such as the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and multiscale computations
