Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics

《应用流体力学杂志》（JAFM）是一本国际性的同行评议期刊，涵盖了流体力学的各种理论、数值和实验方面。重点是不同工程领域的应用，而不是流体力学中纯数学或物理方面的应用。尽管目前存在许多与流体力学不同方面有关的高质量期刊，但该领域的研究正在迅速升级。这本新的流体力学期刊的动机是由以下几点驱动的：（1）有必要让所有流体力学研究人员都能阅读电子期刊；（2）来自第三世界国家的科学家需要一个不产生出版成本的地方；（3）高质量的论文应该通过高效的同行快速出版。审查过程，以及（4）快速传播在亚洲国家举行的流体力学会议需要一个出口。关于后一点，目前在该地区有一些专门促进流体力学的优秀会议，如亚洲流体力学大会，始于1980年，名义上每两年在一个亚洲国家举行一次。我们希望这本拟议的杂志为促进该大陆的应用流体研究和相关活动提供了额外的动力。该杂志由伊朗物理学会与伊斯法罕理工大学（IUT）合作出版。

The Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics (JAFM) is an international, peer-reviewed journal which covers a wide range of theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects in fluid mechanics. The emphasis is on the applications in different engineering fields rather than on pure mathematical or physical aspects in fluid mechanics. Although many high quality journals pertaining to different aspects of fluid mechanics presently exist, research in the field is rapidly escalating. The motivation for this new fluid mechanics journal is driven by the following points: (1) there is a need to have an e-journal accessible to all fluid mechanics researchers, (2) scientists from third- world countries need a venue that does not incur publication costs, (3) quality papers deserve rapid and fast publication through an efficient peer review process, and (4) an outlet is needed for rapid dissemination of fluid mechanics conferences held in Asian countries. Pertaining to this latter point, there presently exist some excellent conferences devoted to the promotion of fluid mechanics in the region such as the Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics which began in 1980 and nominally takes place in one of the Asian countries every two years. We hope that the proposed journal provides and additional impetus for promoting applied fluids research and associated activities in this continent. The journal is under the umbrella of the Physics Society of Iran with the collaboration of Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) .