The International Journal of Thermal Sciences is devoted to the publication of original research papers concerned with fundamental studies on the physics of processes involving heat transfer and their coupling with mass transfer and/or fluid flow. The journal especially welcomes papers aiming at a better understanding of the coupling of local mechanisms and their interactions in larger scale systems. 

Papers submitted for publication may contain either experimental results, numerical simulations or discussions of models, and must present a significant scientific contribution. 

The fundamental subjects considered within the scope of the journal are:

•	Heat and relevant mass transfer at all scales (nano, micro and macro) and in all types of materials (heterogeneous, composites, biological,...) and fluid flow 
•	Forced, natural or mixed convection in reactive or non-reactive media
•	Single or multi-phase fluid flow with or without phase change
•	Near-and far-field radiative heat transfer
•	Combined modes of heat transfer in complex systems (for example, plasmas, biological or geological systems,…)
•	Multiscale modelling.


In all cases, the paper must present a physical discussion of the mathematical model and a clear justification of the underlying assumptions. 

Papers dedicated to applications in different fields of engineering or natural sciences may be considered provided that they analyze the coupling of heat transfer modes with other mechanisms and their influence on the system's behavior.

The International Journal of Thermal Sciences will not accept papers with the following characteristics:

•	Studies which belong to already established specialized journals, such as computational techniques, combustion, thermodynamic cycles,…
•	Papers with purely descriptive or empirical content, 
•	Mere applications of classical equations to complex fluids (e.g. colloidal suspensions) or to the complex combination of basic mechanisms (divided media, external forces,…)
•	Numerical simulations without a thorough validation of the code and convergence study,
•	Numerical results using commercial CFD codes, unless new insights into the physics of the process are presented, 
•	Experimental reports without uncertainty analysis or presenting results without error margins,
•	Experimental or numerical studies which do not provide a physical interpretation of the observed behavior, 
•	Studies presenting the global performance of industrial systems, 
•	Papers on the characterization of materials,
•	Statistical techniques describing the process as a black box.

Original research papers, reviews, new items.

Editors - in - Chief
C. Balaji
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India Email C. Balaji
D. Gobin
Laboratory of Molecular and Macroscopic Energy Combustion, Chatenay Malabry, FranceEmail D. Gobin
U. Gross
Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Freiberg, Germany Email U. Gross
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Y. Bayazitoglu
Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States
A. Charette
University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
A. Lallemand
National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
K. Stephan
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Associate Editors
W.K.S. Chiu
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States
P. Coelho
University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
N. Ghaddar
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
S. Khandekar, PhD
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
D. Maillet
Laboratory of Energetics and of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France
L. Tadrist
Aix-Marseille I University, Marseille, France
G. Xie
Northwestern Polytechnical University School of Mechanical Engineering, Xian, China
G Ziskind
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Advisory Board
C. Amon
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A. Bejan
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
P. Cheng
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
R. Cotta
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
M.N. Esfahany
University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, Islamic Republic of
S. Kakac
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
P. Le Quéré
Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France
J. H. Lienhard V
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
S. Maruyama
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
A.S. Mujumdar
McGill University Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
J.Y. Murthy
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
P. Norris
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering, Richmond, Virginia, United States
H. Orlande
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Department of Mechanical Engineering, RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
J.W. Rose
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
P. Strizhak
Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
L.L. Vasiliev
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
B. Weigand
University of Stuttgart Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics, Stuttgart, Germany
G. Xie
Northwestern Polytechnical University School of Mechanical Engineering, Xian, China