Abstract
This special issue contains seven papers selected from a total of 275 papers presented at the Thirteenth Mediterranean Combustion Symposium (MCS13), jointly co-sponsored by the Combustion Institute and the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, and held in Corfu (Greece) during the period 1–5 June 2025. The aim of the symposium was to give combustion scientists, engineers, and students based predominantly in Mediterranean countries an opportunity to get together with colleagues from other global regions, to discuss and disseminate state-of-the-art research and recent advances in the field of combustion, and to enhance future collaborative research activities between scientists from different countries in the region.
The papers in this special issue were selected by the editors based on preliminary selection criteria, with high quality that fits to the journal scope as the main selection criterion. The papers were then subjected to a rigorous peer-review process by expert reviewers, as applied to any standard submissions to the journal. This process was therefore independent from the review of the original conference submissions.
The MCS13 organisers are grateful for the opportunity to publish this special issue, and they hope that it will be regarded as a valuable contribution to the field of spray and combustion dynamics.
