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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.