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B. Acknowledgements<br />

The research work was carried out at Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing<br />

(IWR), University of Heidelberg, and this study is funded by German Science<br />

Foundation (DFG) through the priority program ”SPP1423”.<br />

First and foremost I would to like to express my deep sense of gratitude to my<br />

supervisor, Prof. E. Gutheil, who constantly motivated, taught, encouraged, supported<br />

and patiently guided me throughout this work. She offered me this work while I was<br />

about to finish my Master studies, and I thank her for bestowing enormous confidence<br />

on me. She perseveringly corrected the research abstracts, papers, this thesis, and her<br />

style of correction given me an opportunity to be familiar with scientific writing. She<br />

helped me a lot in day to day activities as well. Her endless kindness and incomparable<br />

support cannot be thanked adequately here.<br />

I am thankful to my co-supervisor, PD Dr. N. Dahmen, for his guidance and support<br />

in my research, and for correcting this thesis.<br />

I would like to thank E. Wimmer, Prof. G. Brenn (TU Graz), Dr. R. Wengeler (BASF<br />

Ludwigshafen) for providing the experimental data. Special thanks to Prof. G. Brenn<br />

for extending his support and comments in un<strong>der</strong>standing and correction of experimental<br />

data. Special thanks to Prof. N. Urbanetz for the fruitful discussions on mannitol/water<br />

system. I would like thank all the members of the DFG ”SPP 1423” for<br />

their support.<br />

I express my sincere thanks to all my colleagues, L. Cao, H. Großhans, R. M. Humza,<br />

Y. Hu, H. Olguin, M. Trunk, X. G. Cui, D. Urzica and E. Vogel. Thanks to N. Wenzel<br />

for his help in experimental data handling. Special thanks to H. Großhans for proof<br />

reading this thesis and translating the abstract in German. I sincerely thank E. Vogel<br />

for her kind help in all administrative matters, which made my life easier in Germany,<br />

and thanks to her also for the corrections of German abstract.<br />

I thank my family members, especially, my mother (Sulochana), beloved brother<br />

(Suren<strong>der</strong>), and sister (Swarupa) for their constant support and endless love. I wish<br />

to express special thanks to my wife (Tanuja), who encouraged me in every hard hour,<br />

and corrected this thesis with humongous patience.<br />

Last but not least, the financial support of DFG through ”SPP1423” and HGS-<br />

MathComp is gratefully acknowledged.

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