Daniel Beysens Libri

Focusing on the intricate physics of dew and dropwise condensation, this comprehensive book serves as a resource for scientists, engineers, and students. It covers theoretical backgrounds, essential formulae, and various substrates impacting condensation processes across 15 chapters and 18 appendices. Key topics include heat and mass transfer, nucleation, self-diffusion, and the effects of thermal discontinuities. While primarily addressing condensation from humid air, the principles discussed can be applied to other substances, making it a valuable tool for anyone interested in this field.

Focusing on the formation and characteristics of dew, this book explores its potential for collection and practical applications. It serves as a valuable resource for a diverse audience, including policy-makers, NGOs in development aid, engineers, urban planners, researchers, and students, highlighting the significance of dew in sustainable development initiatives.

For decades experiments conducted on space stations like MIR and the ISS have been gathering data in many fields of research in the natural sciences, medicine and engineering. The EU-sponsored Ulisse Internet Portal provides metadata from space experiments of all kinds and links to the data. Complementary to the portal, this book will serve as handbook listing space experiments by type of infrastructure, area of research in the life and physical sciences, data type, what their mission was, what kind of data they have collected and how one can access this data through Ulisse for further research. The book will provide an overview of the wealth of space experiment data that can be used for research, and will inspire academics (e. g. those looking for topics for their PhD thesis) and research departments in companies for their continued development.