Das erste Referenzwerk, in dem Studierenden die Modellierung von Phasenwechselphänomenen in der Verfahrens- und Werkstofftechnik anhand praktischer Beispiele sowie ausgewählter Modellierbeispiele und -lösungen beschrieben wird.

Petr Nikrityuk is a Full Professor at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, the University of Alberta (UofA), Canada. Professor Nikrityuk's research and teaching areas are computational heat and mass transfer in multiphase systems referring to heat and energy storage (E2C) technologies, including high-temperature conversion of materials. Having obtained his academic degrees from Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), he spent most of his career working in Germany before taking up his present appointment at UofA. He holds a Habilitation Degree from TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany) on the topic of computational thermo-fluid dynamics in material science and engineering.

Before taking his current position at the University of Alberta, Petr Nikrityuk was the head of the research group 'Interphase Phenomena' within the Center for Innovation Competence VIRTUHCON (Virtual High Temperature Conversion) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany) in the Department of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering. In 2016 and 2019 Petr was awarded the University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award. In 2024 Petr was awarded the Jules Stachiewicz Medal from Chemical Institute of Canada for his contributions in the field of heat transfer, including design, research, manufacturing and teaching. In 2025 Petr was awarded Engineering Graduate Teaching Award in recognition of excellence in Graduate Teaching within the University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering..