Topical Issue on Non-equilibrium processes in multicomponent and multiphase media Tatyana Lyubimova, Valentina Shevtsova and Fabrizio Croccolo Eur. Phys. J. E, 41 10 (2018) 122 Published online: 12 October 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11732-6