This guide is designed for CFD students, researchers and authors preparing defensible technical work for a thesis or journal paper. Apply the recommendations to the actual physics, solver, evidence and publication requirements of your project.
Scientific contribution
Confirm the gap, objective, novelty and conclusions form one consistent evidence chain.
- Contribution sentence
- Scope
- Quantitative findings
- Limitations
CFD methodology
Check geometry, models, boundaries, properties, mesh, numerics and report definitions are reproducible.
- Units
- References
- Solver/version
- Assumptions
Credibility evidence
Include convergence, conservation, mesh/timestep sensitivity, uncertainty and validation appropriate to the claims.
- Tables/plots
- Metrics
- Evidence range
- No terminology errors
Manuscript and figures
Check title, abstract, keywords, structure, symbols, captions, image resolution and cross-references.
- Readable scale
- Consistent notation
- Reference completeness
- Language review
Submission package
Prepare cover letter, declarations, authorship, funding, conflicts, data/code statements and supplementary files.
- Journal template
- File names
- ORCID/details
- Final PDF inspection
Continue the complete publication workflow
Connect this topic to research design, CFD execution, verification, validation, manuscript development and peer review.
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Questions about applying this guide
How should Complete CFD Journal Submission Checklist be used in a CFD research project?
Use this guide as a documented decision step within the wider research workflow. Record the assumptions, evidence, outputs and limitations so the work can be understood, reproduced and defended during journal review.
Can Abecator support only this stage or the complete publication workflow?
Yes. Students and researchers can request focused support for this stage, collaborate with Abecator on selected tasks, or choose complete support from research idea and CFD execution through manuscript preparation, submission and reviewer revisions.
Move your CFD research from idea to publication
Abecator can shape the research question, build and run the CFD cases, analyse the data, develop the manuscript, support submission and respond to reviewers. Choose complete execution, close collaboration or focused help—and decide how involved you want to be.