70 Computational Mechanics journals (Engineering) in ORBIT Tier 1 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 1: top quarter of Engineering by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physics of Fluids | 1070-6631 | 6,184 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Chemical Engineering Science | 0009-2509 | 1,919 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Powder Technology | 0032-5910 | 1,403 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Switzerland |
| Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 0022-1120 | 1,349 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 0045-7825 | 845 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Computational Physics | 0021-9991 | 758 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics | 0377-0427 | 724 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Belgium |
| Combustion and Flame | 0010-2180 | 709 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Physical Review Fluids | 2469-990X | 665 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| AIAA Journal | 0001-1452 | 456 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| AIChE Journal | 0001-1541 | 455 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow | 0142-727X | 443 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Computers & Mathematics with Applications | 0898-1221 | 424 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Scientific Computing | 0885-7474 | 405 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| ZAMM ‐ Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik | 0044-2267 | 401 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| International Journal of Multiphase Flow | 0301-9322 | 396 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Fluids | 2311-5521 | 336 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,07,585 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences | 1364-503X | 317 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Advanced Powder Technology | 0921-8831 | 307 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Computers & Fluids | 0045-7930 | 307 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Computation | 2079-3197 | 295 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,07,585 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing | 1064-8275 | 270 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Particuology | 1674-2001 | 265 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Experiments in Fluids | 0723-4864 | 221 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Computational Particle Mechanics | 2196-4378 | 219 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Switzerland |
| Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science | 0894-1777 | 217 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Proceedings of the Combustion Institute | 1540-7489 | 213 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Turbomachinery | 0889-504X | 192 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow | 0961-5539 | 191 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids | 0997-7546 | 188 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | France |
| Journal of Fluids and Structures | 0889-9746 | 182 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Acta Mechanica Sinica | 0567-7718 | 176 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Applied Numerical Mathematics | 0168-9274 | 172 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics | 1994-2060 | 143 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,53,344 to publish | Yes | Yes | Hong Kong SAR China |
| Applications in Energy and Combustion Science | 2666-352X | 137 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,36,005 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Fluids Engineering | 0098-2202 | 131 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Computer-Aided Design | 0010-4485 | 120 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Communications in Computational Physics | 1815-2406 | 115 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Hong Kong SAR China |
| Mathematics of Computation | 0025-5718 | 109 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids | 0271-2091 | 107 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Granular Matter | 1434-5021 | 106 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis | 0036-1429 | 98 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Flow Turbulence and Combustion | 1386-6184 | 96 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds | 1546-4261 | 95 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Hydrodynamics | 1001-6058 | 87 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Singapore |
| Journal of Engineering Mathematics | 0022-0833 | 85 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences | 1936-4954 | 82 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters | 2095-0349 | 82 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,15,594 to publish | Yes | Yes | China |
| Journal of Porous Media | 1091-028X | 75 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science | 2577-0187 | 74 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| Numerical Heat Transfer Part A Applications | 1040-7782 | 72 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Visualization | 1343-8875 | 59 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Advances in Computational Mathematics | 1019-7168 | 57 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Computational Mathematics | 0254-9409 | 56 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Hong Kong SAR China |
| Shock Waves | 0938-1287 | 48 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| International Journal of Fluid Engineering | 2994-9009 | 47 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Flow | 2633-4259 | 44 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,17,884 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics | 0935-4964 | 39 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie | 0044-3336 | 39 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Numerical Heat Transfer Part B Fundamentals | 1040-7790 | 38 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow | 2661-8869 | 37 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Singapore |
| Journal of Numerical Mathematics | 1569-3953 | 25 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Advances in Computational Science and Engineering | 2837-1739 | 24 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Progress in Energy and Combustion Science | 0360-1285 | 24 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Advances in Aerodynamics | 2524-6992 | 23 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Singapore |
| Beijing Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics | 2994-8444 | 23 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Computational and Theoretical Transport | 2332-4309 | 23 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | 0066-4189 | 19 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology | 1748-3018 | 13 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,92,657 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science | 1559-3940 | 11 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |