We use numerical simulations of galaxy clusters to study the dynamical and thermal evolution of the ICM from high redshift to the present time. We measure the properties of the satellites accreting on the cluster main progenitor and then measure their self-bound mass fraction as a function of time after the merging. We also calculate the mean properties of their orbits and investigate the time evolution of their internal velocity dispersion and gas temperature. We measure and model the mean pericentric and apocentric times, distances and velocities. Finally we show how the properties of the ICM at redshift zero can be understood by decomposing them as a function of the cluster merging history.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html