We were excited to hold the  JFM/FLOW 2022 China Symposium in Xi’an in June 2022. This is the second time Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) has held a symposium in China but the first which included our new journal Flow. 

The event began with a welcome from the Director of the Institute of Extreme Mechanics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xiaojing Zheng, and James Pan, Asia Director, Academic Publishing, Cambridge University Press. The Symposium was initially planned as an on-site event but was converted to a hybrid event due to COVID and with over 12,000 views of the recording, we are delighted that so many researchers have been able to watch the event. 

A fantastic day of talks started with Flow Editor-in-Chief Juan G. Santiago followed by speakers from across China including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beihang University, Lanzhou University Southern University of Science and Technology, to name but a few. Thank you to all our speakers for their enlightened talk – view a full list of speakers and their talks. 

The Symposium also included talks on both JFM and Flow which were held throughout the day. Flow Editor-in-Chief Juan G. Santiago was joined by Associate Editor Cunjing Lv and Cambridge publisher, Anna Simpson, for a “Talk to Flow Editors’ session. Juan and Anna explained the journal’s aims and scope, the review process, and future development strategies to the Chinese academics. Associate Editor, Xiaojing Zheng also extolled the virtues of the journal and encouraged young researchers to actively submit. 

The afternoon saw Anna present on JFM and Flow’s development in China, the current situation of both publications and the contributions made by Chinese researchers in recent years. ‘We were glad to see that both the number of publications and the quality of papers are rising’. Anna stated that the standard of research by Chinese academics continues to climb. We anticipate collaborating with more Chinese researchers in fluid mechanics. 

The highly anticipated panel discussion with JFM editors and publisher began with Lianping Wang and Ziniu Wu introducing themselves as new Associate Editors of JFM. This was followed by a Q&A session with the other editorial members, including JFM Editor-in-Chief Colm Caulfield. 

Concluding the Symposium was a poster session. The JFM & Flow editors and speakers selected two prize winners, citing the extremely high quality of the work on display. Congratulations to Zibo Ren from Tsinghua University and Fang Xu from the Southern University of Science and Technology for their excellent work. Colm specifically emphasised the outstanding quality of the posters contributed. Despite his stringent evaluation standards, he was astounded at the calibre of the young Chinese researchers. 

The symposium was a huge success and we were delighted with the positive feedback from attendees, hosts and journal editors:

Finally, we must thank our excellent hosts at the Institute of Extreme Mechanics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and the attentive and engaging attendees for an inspiring day of fluid mechanics. 

Thank you to all our speakers: 

Juan G. Santiago, Stanford University “Mixers and jets for x-ray spectroscopy studies”.  

Huiling Duan, Peking University “Slip flow and plastron stability on underwater hierarchically structured surfaces”.  

Fu Song, Tsinghua University “Progress in the Study of Flow Instabilities in Complex Hypersonic Boundary Layers”.  

Lihao Feng, Beihang University, “Evolution of Leading-edge Vortex in DynamicStall: Modeling and Prediction” 

Hongyou Liu, Lanzhou University “Analysis of non-stationary processes in high-Reynolds-number particle-laden wall-bounded turbulence” 

Huanshu Tan, Southern University of Science and Technology “Delivering Colloidal Droplets to Targets Hidden Within Porous Media  

Xisheng Luo, University of Science and Technology of China “Manipulating Richtmyer-Meshkov instability through a second shock-impact”.  

Hua Liu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, “Liquid Metal MHD Turbulence and R&D of Fusion Blanket”,  

Mingjiu Ni, Chinese Academy of Sciences University, “Numerical and Physical Modelling of Tsunamis in South China Sea Region”, 

Guohua Tu, China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center and “Global stability analyses of 3-dimensional boundary-layer transitions” 

Shizhao Wang, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences then presented their work on “Estimating lift of flapping wings based the vorticity centroids and circulation on a cross-plane in the wake 

C. P. Caulfield, University of Cambridge, “Mixing up the climate? How the mystery of stratified turbulence is controlling all our futures”.  

Zhenhua Xia, Zhejiang University, discuss “A two-dimensional-three-component model for spanwise rotating plane Poiseuille flow” 

Yanbo Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University “The fundamentals of nanofluidics and energy application” 

Jie Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University “Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of bubbles rising in-line in highly inertial regimes”.