This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

Manuscript preparation

1. General guidelines

• Papers are accepted only in English.
• A typical article will not exceed 15 pages.
• The Journal will also accept short communications, not exceeding 5 pages in length.  The category of submission must be clearly stated by the author(s).
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
• Abstracts of 100-150 words are required for all papers submitted.
• Each paper should have five to ten keywords.
• Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
• All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
• Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
• When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

2. Journal-specific guidelines        

The following instructions are specifically directed at authors submitting a manuscript to the International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics (IJCFD).

Contributions to the IJCFD must report original CFD research and/or applications, and are reviewed by a number of international referees, in a double-blind manner.

Authors are encouraged to as much as possible address the following points in their paper:

• The order of accuracy of the numerical method,
• The method's verification against closed-form, manufactured or acknowledged  highly-accurate numerical solutions,
• The method's validation against reliable experimental results, or at the least other numerical solutions (in this case clearly explaining the advantages of the new method),
• The level of grid dependence of results, and space discretization errors,
• The level of convergence in time, and time discretization errors,
• The method's iterative convergence for the cases presented.

Papers based on a Commercial CFD Code (CCC) are subject to the same scientific scrutiny and, because of their nature, must clearly highlight the authors' CFD algorithmic or modeling contributions, as well as represent a new application area of broad interest to the IJCFD readers and not only to the users of that particular CCC.

3. Style guidelines

• Description of the Journal's article style, Quick guide
• Description of the Journal's reference styles (Endnote style TF_V - Harvard B)
• Guide to using mathematical symbols and equations
  LaTeX template (Please save the LaTeX template to your hard drive and open it for use by clicking on the icon in Windows Explorer)
• Word templates are available for this journal. If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk (please mention the journal title in your email).
  

4. Figures

• It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
• Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
• Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
• All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. figure 1, figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b)).
• Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
• The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

5. Colour

There are a limited number of colour pages within the annual page allowance. Authors should restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in colour in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at proof stage to agree on an appropriate number of colour pages. If the colour page budget is exceeded, authors will be given the option to provide a financial contribution to additional colour reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.

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