Thermophysical properties of molten iron alloys, slags and fluxes at high temperatures are extremely important information for process metallurgists to improve the conventional iron- and steel-making processes as well as to design new technologies. Although the importance of thermophysical properties has been recognized well, there are only limited numbers of data in the literature and the accuracy is quite questionable due to the difficulties in high temperature experiments. Thanks to the recent developments in measurements and model prediction techniques coupling with thermodynamic data and structural analysis, the reliability of these data has been extremely increased very recently. 

Under such a background, papers by general authors as well as the invited speakers in the 10th Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference (ATPC) held in Jeju in September, 2013 are invited to contribute to this special issue. Scopes of the special issue are: (1) thermophysical data such as viscosity, surface tension, thermal conductivity, etc., (2) improvements of measurements techniques, (3) modeling of thermophysical properties, (4) thermophysical property evaluation based on structural analysis.

The deadline for the submission of manuscripts is January 25, 2014. Manuscripts should be submitted via the following site in a style consistent with the “Instruction of Authors” and “Guide for the Preparation of a Manuscript” of ISIJ International. Authors wishing to submit review papers should contact to the following chief editor: