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度以要求热力学闭合的系统的连续和准连续建模的新思想。主要重点放在试图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上，通过均质化、统计平均和其他数学工具，旨在司法消除小的时间和长度尺度。该期刊特别关注同时描述几个不同尺度的复杂系统的投稿。强烈鼓励提交展示和解释新实验发现的论文。该期刊欢迎旨在理解现象物理性质的数值研究。

潜在主题包括沸腾和湍流、塑性和地震。具有非线性和非局部相互作用的流体和固体的研究、多场和多尺度响应、非平凡耗散特性和复杂动力学有望在期刊上占据重要地位。特色主题的不完整列表包括：活性固体和液体、纳米级效应和材料分子结构、流体和固体力学中的奇点、聚合物、弹性体和液晶、流变学、空化和断裂、滞后和摩擦、固体和液体相变力学、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。该期刊还希望吸引有关连续过程热力学和动力学基础的论文。特别感兴趣的是对细胞、骨骼和组织的生物物理学和生物力学新兴领域的贡献，从而产生新的连续体和热力学模型。

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