Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Aims & Scope

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.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.2
2024	1.90

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10096

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	833

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.575

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	63

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Engineering, Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Mathematical modeling of electrorheological materials

  Citation: 387

  Authors: K.R., M.

• Ferroelectric and ferroelastic piezoceramics – modeling of electromechanical hysteresis phenomena

  Citation: 331

  Authors: M.

• Pantographic metamaterials: an example of mathematically driven design and of its technological challenges

  Citation: 310

  Authors: Francesco, Pierre, Jean Jacques, Tomasz, Roman, Marek, David, Ivan, Ugo, Emilio, Maciej, Nicola, Claude, Victor A., Anil, Luca, Emilio, Leopoldo, Massimo, Antonio, Alessandro Della, Antonio, Daria, Inna Zurba, Yosra, Jean-François, Wolfgang, Gregor, Mario, Aron, Katarzyna, Klaus, Jan, François

• Heat pulse experiments revisited

  Citation: 284

  Authors: W., H.

• The relaxation of a double-well energy

  Citation: 261

  Authors: R. V.

• Modeling granular media on the computer

  Citation: 259

  Authors: H.J., S.

• A constitutive model for carbon black filled rubber: Experimental investigations and mathematical representation

  Citation: 251

  Authors: Alexander

• Advances in pantographic structures: design, manufacturing, models, experiments and image analyses

  Citation: 249

  Authors: Francesco, Pierre, Mario, Emilio, François, Tomasz, Ivan, Luca, Ugo, Massimo, Simon R., Aron, Klaus, Ralph, Emilio, Rizacan, Aviral, Michele, Francesco, Amine, Xavier, Anil, Boris, Marek, Corinne, Daria, Patrice, Marco, Luca, Peter, Christian, Sofia, Patrick, Justin, Florian, Zacharias, Costas, Vasileia, Maria, Wolfgang, Bilen Emek, Christian, Gregor, Philip, Rafał, Leonid, Faris, Tasawar

• Tikhonovs regularization method for ill-posed problems

  Citation: 236

  Authors: J., J.

• A unifying perspective: the relaxed linear micromorphic continuum

  Citation: 220

  Authors: Patrizio, Ionel-Dumitrel, Angela, Luca, Giuseppe

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