International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 126 (2018) 1356–1357

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In Celebration

On celebration of Professor Abdulmajeed A. Mohamad’s 65th birthday

It is a great pleasure and honor to celebrate Professor Abdulmajeed Mohamad, a faculty member of the Schulich School ofEngineering at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, his 65thbirthday this year. It is our immense pleasure to congratulate
him on his contributions and achievements in the field of heattransfer, computational methods, Lattice Boltzmann Method,transport and combustion in porous media, thermal energy
systems, incompressible fluid dynamics, and heat transferenhancement. His footprints in those areas are well recognizedby the peers in the thermal sciences.
Professor Mohamad was born in a town of Telefar, near Mosul,
Iraq, on July 1, 1953. He graduated from Baghdad University with a
BSc (Hons) and MSc in 1976 and 1978, respectively. He worked as alecturer at Mosul University until 1985. In 1992, he was obtained aPhD degree from Purdue University where he was mentored byProfessor Raymond Viskanta. He learned the importance offreedom as a fundamental concept of curiosity, which eventuallyblossoms into new ideas. This lesson was, and still is, evident in
his professional work. In 1993, he became an Assistant Professor
at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. In September
1999 Dr. Mohamad and his family immigrated to Canada, and in
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2000 he joined the faculty of the University of Calgary and eventually became a tenured faculty member.
Professor Mohamad has been invited to many institutions
around the world as a lecturer, keynote speaker and invited professor. Majeed is an excellent teacher and researcher. Professor
Mohamad found time to participate extensively in professional
activities, such as organizing national and international conferences. He is the founder of the International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer. The 10th meeting
was held in Seoul, South Korea, in May 2017 and 11th is scheduled
in Krakow, Poland, May, 2018. He is also the founder of the International Conference on Applications of Porous Media. The 6thconference was held in Tianjin, China in July 2017. He has been
invited by Polytech Paris Sud, Orsay; Ecole Normale SuperieureParis-Saclay, France as well as Xian Jiaotong University. Majeed
has been invited several times by the Cracow University of Technology to deliver lectures to graduate students. He has been invited
several times to the NATO summer school organized by Professors
S. Kakac and I. Pop. While on leave from the University of Calgary
during the period of 2010–2012, he served as the acting Dean ofEngineering at Alfaisal University (AU), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
and was instrumental in the establishing of the engineering schoolat Alfaisal University.
Professor Mohamad is a Fellow of the American Society ofMechanical Engineers (ASME) and an Executive member of theScientific Council for the International Centre for Heat and Mass
Transfer (ICHMT). Professor Mohamad is the author of a popular
textbook on the Lattice Boltzmann Method - Fundamentals andEngineering Applications with Computer Codes, which was published by Springer, 2011. His contributions to the fundamentalsof heat transfer, computational methods of incompressible flow,transport and combustion in porous media are well recognizedby his peers. Professor Mohamad has published over 250 papers,mainly in peer reviewed journals, as well as contributed to theeducation of many undergraduate and graduate students. Majeed
has never hesitated to help young researchers with his encouragements. In summary, he is the recipient of the Averroes Award(ICOME17 meeting, July 2017) for his contribution to the educationof many students around the world.
On behalf of Professor Mohamad’s former students, colleagues,and friends, we wish him all the best in the future.
Y. Bayazitoglu
Rice University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Houston,TX, USAA. Bejan
Duke University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials
Science, Durham, NC, USA

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R. Bennacer
Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay, LMT Cachan, Cachan, France
P. Cheng
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Mechanical Engineering,Shanghai, China
Y.-L. He
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science andEngineering, Xi’an, China
Y. JaluriaRutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Mechanicaland Aerospace Engineering, New Brunswick, NJ, USA1357

I.M. PopUniversitatea Babes-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca, Department of Applied
Mathematics, Cluj Napoca, Romania
J. TaineCentrale Supélec, Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire EM2C, CNRS,Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France⇑

J. Taler
Institute of Thermal Power Engineering, Cracow University ofTechnology, Al. Jana Pawla II 37, 31-864 Krakow, Poland

S. Kakac
TOBB ETU, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ankara, Turkey

Cracow University of Technology, Institute of Thermal PowerEngineering, Cracow, Poland⇑ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: taler@mech.pk.edu.pl (J. Taler).

J. Masliyah
University of Alberta, Department of Chemical and MaterialsEngineering, Edmonton, AL, Canada

W.-Q. Tao
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science andEngineering, Xi’an, China

W.J. Minkowycz
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

L. Vasiliev
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer
Institute, Minsk, Belarus

P. Ocłoń
Cracow University of Technology, Institute of Thermal PowerEngineering, Cracow, PolandR. Viskanta
Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN,USA
Available online 6 July 2018