
Introduces a new series designed to develop a linkage among the thermodynamicists working in different disciplines and to foster and promote interdisciplinary thermodynamics education and research. Every volume of the series is intended to address a specific thermodynamics topic of scientific and/or technological importance and authored by one or more investigators. Volume 1 contains 12 contributions dealing with a subject of major importance in the thermodynamics of complex fluid mixtures appearing in fossil fuel industries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)