International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 86 (2015) A1

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In Celebration

80th birthday of Professor Mikhail Dimitrov Mikhailov

Prof. Mikhail D. Mikhailov was born in Pavel, Bulgaria, on January
27th, 1934. He received his engineering education at the Technical
University Soﬁa, obtaining the M.Sc. degree in 1958, the Ph.D.
degree in 1969, and achieving the Doctor of Sciences degree in1976, a more advanced degree delivered in the Soviet Union. He
worked at the Technical University Soﬁa since 1958, becoming
an Associate Professor in Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer in1968, and Full Professor in 1978. From 1978 to 1995 he was theHead of the Computer Science Department at the Institute ofApplied Mathematics, also at the Technical University Soﬁa. He
was Chairman of the Bulgarian Scientiﬁc Council from 1992 to1995, Chairman of the Technical Science Committee of theBulgarian National Science Foundation from 1993 to 1995, andsince 1966 he is a Member of the Scientiﬁc Council of theInternational Center for Heat and Mass Transfer.
He has been a Visiting Scholar at North Carolina State University,Raleigh, USA (1984, 1986, 1987, and 1989), at University of Pisa, Italy(1988), at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1990–1991,1995–2009), National Commission of Nuclear Energy, Brazil(2009–2010), National Institute of Metrology, INMETRO, Brazil(2011–2014), University of Sunderland, UK (1992, 1994),
University of Limeric, Ireland (1993). He has enjoyed membershipin editorial advisory boards of prestigious international journals
such as International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,
International Communications of Heat and Mass Transfer, Journalof Engineering Physics (1966–present), Drying Technology
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2015.03.064(1985–1990), Communications in Applied Numerical Methods(1985–present), Applied Mathematical Modeling (1985–present),
and co-editor of Hybrid Methods in Engineering (1999–2004).
Prof. Mikhailov has a very notable international reputation andrecognition, collaborating with various researchers around theworld, with numerous participations as invited lecturer in variousinternational meetings. He has been one of the distinguished lecturers on NATO Advanced Studies Institutes held in Turkey, at different
events on various important topics of heat and mass transfer.
Throughout his career Prof. Mikhailov was very active in the dissemination of analytical and numerical methods, such as integraltransforms, ﬁnite differences and ﬁnite elements, for solving heatand mass transfer problems. He has published more than 250
papers in the area of heat transfer, mass diffusion, numerical methods, mathematical modeling and computer science, and has supervised over 20 Ph.D. students and directed more than 10 R&D
projects, including joint projects with the Luikov Institute for
Heat Mass Transfer and Institute for Nuclear Engineering, Minsk,
Byelorussia and a Tempus educational project with University ofSunderland, University of Limerick, and University of Berlin. He isauthor or co-author of nine books, including the treatise ‘‘Uniﬁed
Analysis and Solutions of Heat and Mass Diffusion’’, John Wiley &Sons, 1984, also Dover Publications, 1994, jointly with M. Necati
Ozisik, and ‘‘Heat Conduction: Lumped Analysis, SymbolicComputation, Integral Transforms’’, jointly with Renato M. Cotta.
For the last nineteen years, while living in Brazil and working in
the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and, more recently, in theNational Institute of Metrology, INMETRO, he has concentrated on
the development of symbolic computation and hybrid methods,
based on the Mathematica platform.
His dear wife Zeza, that followed and supported him throughout his life, unfortunately left us in 2012, and Prof. Mikhailov had
to ﬁnally return to Soﬁa, Bulgaria, by January 2014, after 19 years
dedicated to fostering engineering sciences advancement inBrazil. On the occasion of his birthday, on behalf of his students,
colleagues and friends all over the world, we wish him a very
happy birthday and many more active years in good health andhappiness with his children and grandchildren.
W.J. Minkowycz
Renato M. CottaSadik Kakac
Leonard Vasiliev
Franz MayingerÁtila P. Silva Freire
Fabio Gori