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Professor Yasuo Morion the occasionof his 65th birthdayYASUOMORI,who was born on 24 February 1923 in
Tokyo and has been a Tokyoite ever since, celebrates
his 65th birthday this month.
Professor Mori attended the University of Tokyo
where he received his B.S. degree in AeronauticalEngineering in 1945. He entered the Physico-chemical
Research Laboratory
and then moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Tokyo Institute of Technology where he was appointed Associate
Professor in 1953. He received his D.Eng. degree fora thesis entitled “Theory of Turbo-expanderfor Low
Pressure Air Separation Plants” from the Universityof Tokyo in 1956.
From 1959 to 1960, as a research fellow, he studied
magnetohydrodynamics
with Professor W. R. Sears
at the Graduate
School of Aerospace
Engineering,
Cornell University. His early work involved radial gas
turbines, flow rate measurements,and heat transfer
under a magnetic field.
In May 1961, Doctor Mori was named Full Professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and began
his research on forced convection heat transfer underan external force field. In 1965, an epoch-making
paper entitled “Study on Forced Convective
HeatTransfer in Curved Pipes” was published in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 18,
which was co-authoredwith Dr W. Nakayama. This
paper was selected as one of the best papers of theJapan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1963. He

then published several papers one after the other onheat transfer enhancement
due to the secondary flowcaused by various external forces to systematize thisproblem.
Professor Mori has authored or co-authoredabout260 journal and conference papers in the general areasof heat transfer, combustion,
two-phase flow, magnetohydrodynamics,
and energy conversion systems.
His work is well known especially in high-temperature
heat exchangers,
heat transfer augmentation
techniques, plasma and EHD heat transfer, condensationand evaportion mechanics, utilization of geothermaland ocean thermal energies and reduction of NO, incombustion.
He published
13 Japanese books onthermodynamics,
heat transfer, energy conversion andflow measurement and co-edited two English books.
He has been consulted on energy problems as amember or chairman of committees
on the MHD
power generation system, the high temperatureheat
exchanging system for nuclear steel making, binary
cycle geothermal plant, and OTEC system, which havebeen promoted by the Japan Ministry of International
Trade and Industry.
In 1968, he contributed greatly to the establishmentof the Departmentof Physical Engineering
at theTokyo Institute of Technology,
serving as the first
Chairman from 1968 to 1970 and several times sincethen. Most of his research at the Tokyo Institute ofTechnology
mattered much to the theses of B.S.,
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M.E., and Ph.D. students. Over 200 students have
graduated from his laboratory, and he has supervisedover 20 doctor theses. His principle of education is todevelop the individual talents of the students. This isreflected in the list of his students who are still doing
research in the field of thermal engineering : Y. Kurosaki, K. Hijikata, T. Miyauch and H. Yoshida (TokyoInstitute of Technology), K. Futagami (Ehime University), K. Ohotake, M. Nakagawa and K. Okazaki(Toyohashi University of Technology), Y. Uchida(University of Electra-communications),
T. Nagatani(Shizuoka University), H. Maki (Science Universityof Tokyo), H. Tokuda (National Ship ResearchLaboratory), T. Tanaka (National ElectrotechnicalLaboratory), Y. Yamada and A. Yabe (NationalMechanical Engineering Laboratory),
W. Nakayama and S. Hirasawa (MERL Hitachi Ltd.), and T.
Fukada (CRIEPI). Most of these students haveat first-rate
moved into leadership
positionsinstitutions or industrial laboratories.
Professor Mori was appointed as Adjunct Professor
at the Institute of Industrial Science, University ofTokyo in 1982 and Professor Emeritus of TIT on 1April 1983. Since 1983, he has been carrying on his
research at the University of Electra-communications,as Professor. He was invited to the University of California, Berkeley, as Springer Distinguished Professorin 1984.
Professor Mori has been a very active member ofthe JSME. He has promoted the International Cooperation Program in the field of thermal engineering
as Chairman of the JSME Board of International
Affairs, Vice-President of the JSME, and President of
the Heat Transfer Society of Japan. He has also madehis effort for the international heat transfer community as Editor of the International Journal of Heatand Mass Transfer since 1973, and became Memberof the Honorary Advisory Board in 1986. He hasserved as a member of the advisory boards of several
other journals. He is now Vice-President of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer.
His outstanding contributions to the field of heattransfer and energy have not gone unnoticed. He has
been awarded four times by the JSME for one of thebest papers in 1963, 1973, 1980 and 1984. The 1982
Heat Transfer Memorial Award of the ASME waspresented to Professor Mori for his wide contributions
to the understanding of heat transfer, his long-time
devotion to heat transfer education, and his services
to the international heat transfer community, industry
and government. In 1982 he won a commendation as
distinguished scientist by Tokyo Metropolys. In 1986,
Professor Mori was elected as Foreign Associate ofthe National Academy of Engineering of the UnitedStates of America.
Professor Mori has been a devoted husband. Heand his wife, Reiko, celebrated their 35th anniversary
last November. He has been an avid sportsman, enjoying skiing, tennis and now golf. He is well known asa skillful golfer.
On behalf of Professor Mori’s students, his colleagues, and his friends all over the world, we would
like to wish him many happy returns and respectfully
dedicate this Festschrift in his honor.
K. HIJIKATA
R. ECHIGO
I. TANASAWA