Journal Title：Continuum Mechanics And Thermodynamics

This interdisciplinary journal provides a forum for presenting new ideas in continuum and quasi-continuum modeling of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom and sufficient complexity to require thermodynamic closure. Major emphasis is placed on papers attempting to bridge the gap between discrete and continuum approaches as well as micro- and macro-scales, by means of homogenization, statistical averaging and other mathematical tools aimed at the judicial elimination of small time and length scales. The journal is particularly interested in contributions focusing on a simultaneous description of complex systems at several disparate scales. Papers presenting and explaining new experimental findings are highly encouraged. The journal welcomes numerical studies aimed at understanding the physical nature of the phenomena.

Potential subjects range from boiling and turbulence to plasticity and earthquakes. Studies of fluids and solids with nonlinear and non-local interactions, multiple fields and multi-scale responses, nontrivial dissipative properties and complex dynamics are expected to have a strong presence in the pages of the journal. An incomplete list of featured topics includes: active solids and liquids, nano-scale effects and molecular structure of materials, singularities in fluid and solid mechanics, polymers, elastomers and liquid crystals, rheology, cavitation and fracture, hysteresis and friction, mechanics of solid and liquid phase transformations, composite, porous and granular media, scaling in statics and dynamics, large scale processes and geomechanics, stochastic aspects of mechanics. The journal would also like to attract papers addressing the very foundations of thermodynamics and kinetics of continuum processes. Of special interest are contributions to the emerging areas of biophysics and biomechanics of cells, bones and tissues leading to new continuum and thermodynamical models.

这本跨学科期刊提供了一个论坛，用于展示具有大量自由度和足够复杂性以需要热力学闭合的系统的连续体和准连续体建模的新思想。主要重点放在试图通过同质化、统计平均和其他旨在司法消除小时间和长度尺度的数学工具来弥合离散和连续方法以及微观和宏观尺度之间差距的论文。该杂志对同时描述几个不同尺度的复杂系统的贡献特别感兴趣。非常鼓励发表和解释新的实验发现的论文。该杂志欢迎旨在了解现象物理性质的数值研究。

潜在的主题范围从沸腾和湍流到塑性和地震。对具有非线性和非局部相互作用、多场和多尺度响应、非平凡耗散特性和复杂动力学的流体和固体的研究预计将在该期刊的页面上占有一席之地。不完整的专题列表包括：活性固体和液体、材料的纳米级效应和分子结构、流体和固体力学的奇点、聚合物、弹性体和液晶、流变学、空化和断裂、滞后和摩擦、固体力学和液相转变，复合，多孔和颗粒介质，静力学和动力学中的缩放，大规模过程和地质力学，力学的随机方面。该杂志还希望吸引有关热力学和连续过程动力学基础的论文。特别感兴趣的是对新兴的生物物理学和细胞、骨骼和组织的生物力学领域的贡献，这些领域导致了新的连续体和热力学模型。