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Voi 26, No 3, pp. 321-322
Pergamon Press Ltd. 1983 Printed in Greztt Britain

PROFESSOR BORIS SERGEYEVICH PETUKHOVON HIS 70~~ BIRTHDAY

THE YEAR 1982 marks the 70th birthday and the 45th
anniversary of scientific and pedagogical activity ofProfessor B. S. Petukhov, the Corresponding Memberof the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, and Head of theHeat Transfer Department of the Institute for High
Temperatures of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences.
B. S. Petukhov was born on 4 August 1912 in thetown ofNovozybkovo. On graduating in 1936 from theKuibyshev Industrial Institute he worked at theInstitute of Engineering Construction where, two years
later, he took charge of the Thermal Engineering
Department. In 1938 he entered the post-graduate
courses at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
That year marked the beginning of his great scientificactivity. In 1956 he presented his Dr.Sc. Thesis and wasconferred with the title of Professor. Since 1966 he hasheaded the Heat Transfer Department at the Institutefor High Temperatures of the U.S.S.R. Academy ofSciences. In 1976 he was elected a Corresponding
Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences onrecommendationby the Section for Physical andTechnical Problems of Energetics of the Academy.
B. S. Petukhov is an outstanding representativeofthe
Soviet school of thermal physics. On the basis of a wide
range of experimental and theoretical investigations hehas advanced the theory of convective heat transfer forthe variable properties of heat transfer agents in thepresence of the substantial effect of ~avitationa1 field.
With a thorough study of the mechanism of heattransfer and theoretical investigations he has combined
the solution of problems directly related to practicalengineering. His work on heat transfer in turbulent flowin channels of heat agents at near-critical parameters ofstate, convective heat transfer and heat transfer under
the conditions of boiling of liquid metal anddissociating coolants are examples of this-studies
directly associated with the needs of nuclear powerengineering and a number of areas of moderntechnology. In recent years he has directed investigations into radiativeeconvective
heat transfer inchannels of high-temperature
power-engineering
plants (with reference to the MHD-method of energy
conversion), and heat transfer and resistance in theprocess of helium boiling in channels.
B. S. Petukhov is the author of more than 150
scientific publications, including such monographs andtextbooks for colleges as Experimental Inuestigation ofHeat Transfer Processes, Heat Transfer and Resistancein Laminar Liquid Flow in Tubes and Heat Transfer in
Nuclear Power Engineering Ptants.

Professor Petukhov is engaged in great educational
activity and the training of research personnel. Under
his guidance more than 40 candidates and doctors ofscience have presented their theses. He has assembled

initiative groups ofresearch workers at the Institute forHigh Temperaturesof the U.S.S.R. AcademyofSciences and at the Moscow
Power Engineering
Institute who have successfully conductedinvestigations in the field and contributed
much to thedevelopment of the science of heat transfer.
His research and teaching successfully combineswith diversified scientific and organizational
activity as
the Chairmanof the Heat Transfer Section of theScientific Council on Thermal Physrcs at the If .S.S.K,
Academy of Sciences, and as the Deputy Chairman ofthe National Committee for Heat and Mass Transfer ofthe U.S.S.R, Academy of Sciences. For all his activities
B. S. Petukhov has been presented with a numhcr ~:iawards by the government of the 11S.S.R