Dear Colleagues,

Dust is a complex, active and evolving component of Inter Stellar Medium (ISM) and of the Intra Cluster Medium (ICM). It participates in the processes of gas heating and cooling, catalyzes the formation of molecular gas, strongly modifies the radiation field in astrophysical systems. Dust particles increase the radiative pressure on ISM. As such, dust affect both star formation, as well as stellar and AGN feedback in galaxies. Moreover, it significantly reshapes their spectral energy distribution. These processes depends strongly on both the chemical composition, as well as the size distribution of dust grains, which in turn are theoretically expected and observationally known to evolve with time, and to depend on the ISM environment. Thus, a proper understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, and a comparison between models and data requires a treatment of the evolution of dust properties, and a modeling of the effect of dust on galaxy evolution. This is a relatively unexplored topic. Most of the published work in this direction has been in the context of one-zone or monolithic models. Only in last few years have some efforts begun to be done in cosmological simulations and semi analytic galaxy formation models.

This Special Issue aims to collect papers on models of the evolution of dust in the ISM and ICM in cosmological contexts, and on the physical processes that are relevant for these kinds of computations. Review papers are also welcome.

Dr. Gian Luigi Granato
Guest Editor

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• ISM: dust
• galaxies: evolution
• galaxies: ISM
• clusters: evolution
• clusters: ICM
• methods: numerical