Land Value Recapture in Italy: A Detailed History, TDR Practices and Case Studies

Land value recapture has always been a controversial subject. In many countries there have been and there are different experiences that deal with the common objective of sharing with the wider community the benefits that derive from the development of land. Different approaches are the consequence of diverse private property regimes, planning...

Fundamentals of astrodynamics

This book deals with the motion of the center of mass of a spacecraft; this discipline is generally called astrodynamics. The book focuses on an analytical treatment of the motion of spacecraft and provides insight into the fundamentals of spacecraft orbit dynamics. A large number of topics are treated in a uniform and consistent way. The text...

Series Resonant Power Converter for Contactless Energy Transfer with Improved Efficiency

The development of more efficient power converters is the most important and challenging task for Power Electronics specialists. In the same time, many currently existing or yet to appear future applications require full mechanical independence between the transmitter and receiver of the electrical energy. This contactless form of energy...

Turbulence, heat and mass transfer 2: Proceedings of the second international symposium on turbulence, heat and mass transfer. Delft, The Netherlands, June 9-12, 1997