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In cooperation with S. S. Kutateladze, Professor
sianAcademy of Sciences,doctor of engineeringsci- A. I. Leontiyev developedthe asymptotictheory of aences, scholar and researcher,celebrated his 65th turbulent boundary layer on the basisof which hesuggested
the effective techniquesfor calculatingturbirthday in 1992.
The scientificactivity of ProfessorA. I. Leontiyev bulent heat transfer later confirmed experimentally.
began in 1950 when, after graduation from the In subsequentyears A. I. Leontiyev extended theMoscow Aviation Institute, hejoined the Krzhizhan- boundary layer theory methodsto the analysisof heatovskiy Power EngineeringInstitute. A short time later transfer processesin the channelsof MHD instalhe completedand defendedhis candidate thesis.In lations, steam generating channels,condensersof
1959A. I. Leontiyev continuedhisprofessionalcareer nuclearpower plants,and in heat transferequipment.
The resultsobtained by A. I. Leontiyev and hisat the Institute for Thermal Physics of the SiberianBranchof theUSSRAcademy of Scienceswhere pupils in the field of natural convection and liquid
he was electedHead of the Laboratory of Thermo- boiling heat transfer are widely quoted. ProfessorA.
gasdynamics,and wherein 1962he defendedhis doc- I. Leontiyev authored more than 150 papers, fourtoral thesis.In 1968A. I. Leontiyev took charge of original monographsand five manuals.The monothe Laboratory for Analytical Methods of Calculating graph Heat and Mass Transfer in a Turbulent BoundMassTransfer at the Institute for High Temperatures ary Layer, written together with S. S. Kutateladze,of the USSR Academy of Sciences.In 1975A. I. hasbecomeworld-famed.
Leontiyev becameProfessorat the Department ofThe distinguishedfeaturesof ProfessorLeontiyev’s
Thermodynamics and Heat Conduction of the work have always beenhis striving to employ wide
Moscow State Technical University and in 1979 generalizations,setnew problems,and to gain a deep
headedthe Department of Thermogasdynamicsand insightinto the scientificproblem.
GasTurbine Enginesat the sameUniversity. NumerA. I. Leontiyev isknown asanexcellentteacherandousstudiescarried out by A. I. Leontiyev in various scientific supervisor. He never forces his ideasand
fieldsof heat and masstransfer have beenrecognized viewpoints on his students,but to the contrary, inboth in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.He was the every possibleway supportsoriginal and independent
first to discover a significant enhancementof heat ways of thinking in his pupils. Willingly and gentransfer in the region of interaction betweena com- erously sharing his rich knowledge and experience
pressionshock and a boundary layer, to obtain the with young scientific workers, Professor Leontiyevdata concerningthe effectof oscillationson heat trans- attracts their attention to the solution of the mostfer in the region of a gas curtain and film cooling typical problemsthat offer new challengesin scienceand to study the effectsof turbulent boundary layer and technology. He has been scientific advisor forlaminarization in the region of the nozzle throat.
100completedcandidateand 15doctoral theses.His
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Alexandr Ivanovich Leontiyev on his 65th birthday

outstanding achievements in the field of heat transfer
found recognition in his election in 1987 as Corresponding Member, and in 1991 a Full Member, ofthe Russian Academy of Sciences.
A. I. Leontiyev successfully combines his strenuousservice to science with fruitful teaching activity. From1953 up to 1959 he was an Assistant Professor of theHeat Engineering Department at the Moscow Wood
Technology Institute, from 1959 an Assistant Professor and from 1963 a Professor and Head of theHeat Engineering Department at the Novosibirsk
University. From 1975 A. I. Leontiyev has been Professor of the Moscow State Technical University.
Professor A. I. Leontiyev has been very active inscientific administrative work. He is Chairman of theHeat and Mass Transfer Section of the ScientificCouncil of the Russian Academy of Sciences for thecomplex problem “Thermophysics”,
Deputy Chairman of the Russian National Committee for Heat andMass Transfer, a member of the Executive Committeeof the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, Editorial Board Member of a number of international journals, one of the founders of the International Heat and Mass Transfer Centre, an unfailing
participant of numerous international conferences.
While attending to all of these important duties, A. I.
Leontiyev has always been a man of principle, exacting, but very benevolent.
On the occasion of his 65th birthday, we sincerely
and cordially wish him good health, happiness andmore years of successful creative accomplishments.
CIS Editorial Board Members