Journal Guide

Addressing the wide-ranging topic areas of energy generation, conversion and storage, the Journal disseminates technical information – peer-reviewed scholarly work, Research Papers, Technical Briefs, and feature articles – of permanent interest to the Journal’s readership. Emphasis is given to extraction of energy from subsurface natural resource, petroleum engineering, natural gas technology, fuel/waste/underground combustion, underground storage/disposal with injection wells, alternative energy sources, power (co-) generation, and (geo) thermal energy storage and conversion systems. Authors present results from R&D studies, experience with new technologies, overview analyses, and computing algorithms.

The journal offers a single, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary platform for scientists and engineers in academia, research institutions, government agencies and industry. The journal is also of interest to decision makers and technical, economic and policy advisers in these organisations.

The Journal of Energy Storage welcomes original research papers, reviews and short communications. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Science, technology and applications of electrochemical, chemical, mechanical, electrical and thermal energy storage
• Engineering, control, optimization, numerical and modelling aspects of energy storage systems
• Demand and management of intermittency in large scale low-carbon power generation involving renewable energy sources using energy storage systems and other competing flexibility options such as flexible power plants, demand side management in households and industry, combined heat and power, or grid extensions
• Applications, load profiles and requirements of storage technologies in grid-scale electrical storage, electric vehicle transportation, traction applications, off-grid systems, uninterruptible power supplies, and portable electronic applications
• Management and control of large quantities of distributed storage systems as virtual large scale storage systems, including vehicle-to-grid, energy storage integrated with buildings, and multi-purpose and hybrid storage systems
• Testing, test procedures, evaluation, lessons learned, life cycle costs, life cycle assessment, and safety of energy storage systems
• Economic, policy and regulatory aspects, markets, market models, and market introduction concepts of energy storage systems.

The mission of the journal is to publish a highlyrecognized, scientific and peer-reviewed researchjournal that fosters the worldwide growth andapplications of fibers, fibrous materials and theircomponents. Our thrust is to publish a highlyquality journal that will be cited by researchers. Ourobjective is to be the leading research journal for theengineered fibers and fabrics industry.

Journal of Engineering is an open access journal that publishes research in several areas of engineering, including chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering and mechanical engineering.

Journal of Engineering Design is an international publication that provides an essential forum for dialogue on insightful issues across all disciplines and aspects of the design of engineered products and systems. The Journal publishes pioneering best industrial practice as well as authoritative research, studies and review papers on the underlying principles of design, its management, practice, techniques and methodologies. Fully supported by an international editorial board, the Journal publishes only the highest-quality original research contributions and book reviews from all the major disciplines of engineering design. The Journal covers, but is not restricted to, the following topics: * aesthetics, style and form * collaborative design * creativity and innovation * design costing * design education and pedagogy * design for X, e.g. manufacturability, assembly, environment, sustainability * design management * design risk and uncertainty * design theory and methodology * designing product platforms, modularity and reuse * emotive design, e.g. Kansei engineering * ergonomics, styling and the design process * evolutionary design activity (product improvement & refinement) * global and distributed design * inclusive design and assistive technology * industrial design and total design * integrated design development * knowledge and information management * maintainability, sustainability, safety and standards * product introduction process and new product design development * quality, reliability and robustness * service design and design services * state-of-the-art reviews * systems design All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.

Providing top-quality, peer-reviewed research papers on contemporary issues of engineering materials and technology, the journal covers a broad spectrum of issues regarding experimental, computational and theoretical studies of mechanical properties of materials, as well as mechanics of materials issues in metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, biomaterials, and nanostructured materials. Important topics include, multiscale characterization, modeling and experiments; high-temperature creep, fatigue and fracture; elastic -plastic behavior; environmental effects on material response, constitutive relations, materials processing, and microstructure mechanical property relationships.

The Journal of Engineering Mathematics promotes the application of mathematics to physical problems particularly in the area of engineering. It emphasizes the intrinsic unity, through mathematics, of the fundamental problems of applied and engineering science. Coverage includes:Mathematics: Ordinary and partial differential equations, Integral equations, Asymptotics, Variational and functional-analytical methods, Numerical analysis, Computational methods.Applied Fields: Continuum mechanics, Stability theory, Wave propagation, Diffusion, Heat and mass transfer, Free-boundary problems; Fluid mechanics: Aero- and hydrodynamics, Boundary Layers, Shock waves, Fluid machinery, Convection, Combustion, Acoustics, Multiphase flows, Transition and turbulence, Creeping flow, Rheology, Porous-media flows, Ocean engineering; Atmospheric engineering; Solid mechanics: Elasticity, Classical mechanics, Nonlinear mechanics, Vibrations, Plates and shells, Fracture mechanics, Biomedical engineering, Geophysical engineering, Reac

The Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics publishes the results of theoretical and experimental studies in the following fields:Thermophysics: Heat and mass transfer: Theory of heat conduction: Thermodynamics of irreversible processes: Theory of drying: Heat and mass transfer in disperse and porous systems: Rheodynamics:Rheology.The main focus of this publication is to highlight papers detailing with important, modern day problems, which challenge Scientists in the fields of Technology, Engineering and Physics. Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics is an English translation of the Russian language journal Inzhenerno-fizicheskii Zhurnal, a publication of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The English edition has been published since the very first volume of the Russian journal appeared in 1965. Both editions are published bimonthly. As the entire content is available in both Russian and English, this valuable resource can reach a global audience, thus facilitating international communication between researchers involved in similar studies across the world, this is further facilitated by the online availability of the journal through www.SpringerLink.com. The Russian Volume Year is published in English from April.All articles are peer-reviewed.