Academic Journal
Q2Shock Waves
About Shock Waves
Shock Waves is a scholarly journal published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q2, with an SJR of 0.487 and H-index of 71.
Coverage: 1991-2026. Research categories: Mechanical Engineering (Q2); Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (Q2).
Verified field sources
- Journal Impact Factor: 1.8 — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal metric year and editorial leadership as listed on the Springer Nature journal homepage.
- Impact Factor year: 2025 — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal metric year and editorial leadership as listed on the Springer Nature journal homepage.
- Editor(s): Evgeny Timofeev PhD (Editor-in-Chief) — Official source; checked 2026-10-03. Journal metric year and editorial leadership as listed on the Springer Nature journal homepage.
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Topics in published research
Combustion and Detonation Processes; Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics; Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory; Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows; Energetic Materials and Combustion; Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics.
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3,890.00 USD; 2,990.00 EUR; 2,590.00 GBP
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M. Moran, G. Ciccarelli
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B. Maxwell, R. Murugesan, S. Miri, V. Premnath et al.
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01275-3A study on the attenuation of blast waves propagating through sand in a vertical shock tube
S. Paunikar, S. K. Mondal, C. S. Kumar, G. Jagadeesh et al.
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2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01277-1High-order Eulerian sharp interface numerical techniques for micro- to macro-scale simulation of shocked energetic materials
C. Okafor, P. K. Seshadri, S. Roy, H. S. Udaykumar et al.
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01270-8Reflected-shock bifurcation measurements for varied axial locations
C. Kinney, J. Urso, M. Pierro, J. McGaunn et al.
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01271-7Suppression of methane/hydrogen/air deflagration by local water mist spray
A. G. Bekele, B. Zhang, Y. Xia, B. Wang et al.
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-025-01257-xThermal performance of tapered Hartmann–Sprenger tubes with cylindrical ends
S. B. Verma, C. Bauer
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01269-1Role of the deflagrative burning on the quenching limits for gaseous hydrogen detonation confined by an inert compressible layer
H. Watanabe, V. Robin, A. Chinnayya
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01262-8Background-oriented schlieren measurements for gas-detonation-powered pressure relief systems in the free field
M. Gerbeit, H. Seeber, D. Grasse, M. Donner et al.
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01268-2Experimental study on methane explosion suppression by calcium carbonate powder
S. Ji, Z. Xu, G. Li, Y. Hu et al.
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01267-3Critical initiation of curved and unsteady detonation in Noble-Abel and van der Waals gases
Z. Weng, R. Mével
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-026-01266-4High-fidelity simulations of shock initiation of an energetic crystal–binder system due to flyer impact
S. Roy, P. K. Seshadri, C. Okafor, B. P. Johnson et al.
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L. Zhang, C. Zhao, Z. Xu, Y. Shi et al.
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1007/s00193-025-01255-zAn improved monotonicity-preserving WENO scheme for the Euler equations
Y. Tang, M. Li, S. Tang
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