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IJFMS

The International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems

Preface to IJFMS



We are pleased to publish a new electronic journal, 'International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems (IJFMS).' IJFMS is published to serve the engineering community through dissemination of new technology and ideas concerning all types of fluid machinery and related systems under the cooperation of Korean Society for Fluid Machinery (KSFM), Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics (CSET), Turbomachinery Society of Japan (TSJ), and IAHR Section on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems (IAHR). At the time of AICFM-9 (Asian International Conference on Fluid Machinery, Jeju, Korea, Oct. 16-19, 2007), KSFM proposed joint publication of this international journal to TSJ, and fortunately both societies had general consensus on this issue. And, CSET and IAHR have joined in this cooperation, later. IJFMS treats all engineering aspects of fluid machinery and systems including design, manufacturing, operation and new application. There is not any well known international journal which covers the whole scope of IJFMS. Most of the technical areas covered by IJFMS are industry-oriented fields, and thus we need rapid circulation of the information. Therefore, 'publish rapidly, and open broadly' is the key policy of IJFMS. We've employed electronic publication system in order to publish the papers as soon as they are accepted, and to open the published papers without any charge to anyone who wish to have the technical information on fluid machinery and related systems. We hope IJFMS to contribute to the worldwide developments of fluid machinery industries and academia. The inaugural issue of IJFMS is partly composed of AICFM-9 special issue papers, which were presented at AICFM-9 as invited lectures. We appreciate Prof. Youn-Jea Kim in Sungkyunkwan University who has served as a guest editor for this special issue.

November 17, 2008

Kim, Kwang-Yong
Tsujimoto, Yoshinobu

Editors-in-Chief, IJFMS