Astarita, Gianni

Raffaella Ocone and Gianni Astarita, Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Multicomponent Mixtures... 

Some of the considerations of this section have been discussed by the late Gianni Astarita, whose death in 1997 cut short a tremendously productive career. In a paper dedicated to M. M. Sharma on his sixtieth birthday,1 Astarita points out that Euclid recognized the need for dimensional homogeneity and Ptolemy wrote a book entitled On Dimension, and that their overly strict rules of manipulation were not relaxed until Newton s time. The modem... 

Raffaella Ocone and Gianni Astarita, Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Multicomponent Mixtures Arvind Varma, Alexander S. Rogachev, Alexandra S. Mukasyan, and Stephen Hwang, Combustion Synthesis of Advanced Materials Principles and Applications J. A. M. Kuipers and W. P. Mo, van Swaaij, Computional Fluid Dynamics Applied to Chemical Reaction Engineering... 

This volume is dedicated to the memories of Gianni Astarita and Jacques Villermaux... 

Gianni Astarita, Dipartimento di Ingegneria del Materiali e della Produzione, Universita di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy (1)... 

I wish to thank the authors of the contributions/chapters of this volume for their enthusiastic response to my idea of publishing this volume and Dr. Gianni Astarita of the University of Naples, Italy, for his encouragement during the initial stages of this project. 

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