Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics

期刊简介：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.

【译文】这本跨学科期刊提供了一个展示关于具有大量自由度和足够复杂性的系统连续和准连续建模新想法的平台。重点在于尝试通过同质化、统计平均和其他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的差距，这些工具旨在合理地消除小时间和长度尺度。该期刊特别关注同时描述在不同尺度上复杂系统的贡献。鼓励提交和解释新实验发现的论文。该期刊欢迎旨在理解现象物理本质的数值研究。潜在主题范围从沸腾和湍流到塑性和地震。期望在期刊中占有一席之地的是研究具有非线性和非局部相互作用、多场和多尺度响应、非平凡耗散性质和复杂动力学的流体和固体。以下是不完整的主题列表：活性固体和液体、纳米效应和材料的分子结构、流体和固体力学中的奇点、聚合物、弹性体和液晶、流变学、空化与断裂、滞后和摩擦、固体和液体相变力学、复合材料、多孔和颗粒介质、静力学和动力学中的尺度、大规模过程和地质力学、力学的随机方面。该期刊还希望吸引关注连续过程热力学和动力学的根本问题的论文。特别感兴趣的是对生物物理学和细胞、骨骼和组织的生物力学新兴领域的贡献，这些贡献导致了新的连续和热力学模型。