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In Celebration

Professor Bengt Sundén on his 70th Birthday

Professor Bengt Sundén, who was born in Göteborg in Sweden
on September 5th, 1949, is celebrating his 70th birthday this year.
He obtained his Master degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1973,
and his Ph.D. in Applied Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics in1979, both from Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg,
Sweden. He was appointed as Docent (the highest academic degreein Sweden) in Chalmers University in 1980 and held positions
there as research associate and senior lecturer. Professor Sundén
has worked as full professor since 1992 in the Department ofEnergy Sciences at Lund University in Sweden. He served as theDepartment Head for 21 years from 1995 to 2016, and significantly
contributed to its development in both education and research.
Professor Sundén is highly regarded and prolific in research
excellence. His main research activities cover both fundamental
and applied areas of heat transfer and fluid phenomena such ascompact heat exchangers, distributed energy systems such as fuelcell and microturbine, gas turbine heat transfer, combustionrelated heat transfer including thermal radiation, computational
heat transfer and fluid dynamics, liquid crystal thermography, condensation and evaporation on micro/nano-structured surfaces,
nanofluids, impinging jets, aerospace heat transfer, computationalmodeling and analysis of multiphysics and multiscale phenomena
for fuel cells. In addition to his involvement in various research
activities, he served as the associate dean of research for six years
and also was responsible for Mechanical Engineering at Lund
University. He was elected as a member of the Swedish National
Committee of Mechanics in 1991–1993 and also in 2005–2009.

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His research findings and those of his students have contributedin various sectors of heat transfer and related fields for more thanfour decades. He has authored and co-authored more than 800
papers in well-recognized journals and international conferences.
He authored or co-authored several successful books including‘‘Plate Heat Exchangers: Design, Applications and Performance”,‘‘Introduction to Heat Transfer”, and ‘‘Heat Transfer in Aerospace
Applications.” One of his pioneering book contributions is entitled‘‘Hydrogen, Batteries and Fuel Cells”, which will be published byAcademic Press – Elsevier in late 2019. Professor Sundén has also
authored and co-authored 32 book chapters, has edited 32 books
published by international publishing houses, and 10 special issuesof archival journals.
As an enthusiastic lecturer and supervisor, Professor Sundén has
put every effort into teaching both undergraduate and graduate
courses, emphasizing engineering education that has had significant impact on the engineering and wider communities. He hastaught various topics including thermodynamics, fluid mechanics,numerical heat transfer, thermal radiation, boiling and evaporation, heat and mass transfer, and developed new courses on emerging technologies such as hydrogen-batteries-and-fuel cells. He has
also taught a number of in-house courses for various companies,
and delivered several short/summer international courses for universities abroad. As the department head at Lund University hehad, among many other duties, the overall responsibility for all
courses offered by the department. In 2001 and 2008, his department won the award for the best department in education. He
has supervised 50 Ph.D., 180 Master theses with many of them incooperation with industry, and mentored more than 60 post-doc
and visiting researchers. He is currently supervising several graduate students and post-docs. Most of his past graduate students areactively contributing at various universities, companies and institutions. He has been passionate in presenting a large number ofplenary invited talks, panels, keynotes, and papers in various international conferences and has participated in numerous panel
discussions.
Professor Sundén has also devoted himself to various academic societies. He has been involved in referee tasks for morethan fifty peer-review international journals and has been
active in several international and organizing committees. Hewas the founding and first editor-in-chief of the International
Journal of Heat Exchangers. He served as an associate editorfor ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journalof Heat Transfer from 2005 to 2008, Journal of Heat Transfer
Research since 2011, ASME Journal of Thermal Science andEngineering Applications from 2010 to 2016, and ASME Journalof Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage since 2017, a1316

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regional editor of Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer since 2007,
and the editor-in-chief for the book series Developments inHeat Transfer. He is a long-standing member of the Eurotherm
committee, which aims to promote and foster European cooperation in Thermal Sciences and Heat Transfer. He has chairedand organized more than 10 conferences including well-established IHTC (international heat transfer conference) held inSweden, primarily in heat and mass transfer. Professor Sundén
has been instrumental in organizing post ISHMT – ASME compact heat exchanger workshops in IIT Chennai (2006) and IITDelhi (2008). He was named ASME Fellow for his lasting contributions to fundamental and applied knowledge of heat transfer
and fluid mechanics. He was also recognized as Fellow andEminent Scientist of Wessex Institute of Technology in theUnited Kingdom, for his service to the community and contributions to the field.
Professor Sundén has received a number of prestigious
awards including the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in2011 for his outstanding accomplishments to the field of heattransfer through teaching, research, practice and design, theASME Heat Transfer Division 75th Anniversary Medal in 2013
for seminal contributions to the discipline of heat transfer, andthe Donald Q. Kern Award from the American Society of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in 2016, in recognition of his pioneering
contributions and expertise in heat transfer, transport phenomena, and energy processes. In addition, Professor Sundén wasappointed as Honorary Professor at the School of Power andEnergy Engineering in Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2006, and in2013 was appointed as Guest Professor at Northwestern
Polytechnic University in Xi’an, China. Also, he was appointed
as guest professor at the School of Energy Engineering at Harbin
Institute of Technology in Harbin, China in 2017 and wasappointed as Honorary Professor at the School of Energy andEnvironmental Engineering in Hebei University of Technology
in Tianjin, China in 2018.
The long-lasting achievements during the past four decades isan affirmation of Professor Sundén’s outstanding contributions toresearch and education and his determined and energetic service
to the international thermal science and engineering community.
He is well-respected in our community as a true gentleman, awarm-hearted and caring individual with great sincerity and foresight. His dedication to the field of thermal sciences and engineering is well known and his presence at conferences ensures the highstandards of the papers. He is a role model to most students andyoung researchers in the field. It is a great honor to have Professor
Sundén as a colleague.
On behalf of his many former students, colleagues, and friends
from around the world, we wish him the very best on his 70thbirthday, and we would like to recognize his scientific accomplishments, visionary leadership and outstanding academic service toour society. Professor Sundén is a great asset to our community,
and we would like to wish him and his family good health, happiness and prosperity.

Ryo Amano
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Ping Cheng
School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Wilson Chiu
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA
Ned Djilali
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, CanadaSrinath Ekkad
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, USABijan Farhanieh
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology,
Iran
Je-Chin Han
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
Yogesh Jaluria
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University,USA
Stephan Kabelac
Institut für Thermodynamik, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität
Hannover, Germany
Sadik Kakac
TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Tassos Karayiannis
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Brunel University London, UK
Reijo Karvinen
Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics, Tampere University of Technology,
FinlandRoland Lewis
School of Engineering, Swansea University, UKOronzio Manca
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informazione, Universita’degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Pinar Menguc
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ozyegin University, Turkey
W.J. Minkowycz
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of
Illinois at Chicago, USA
Arun Muley
Boeing Research and Technology, USA
Darina Murray
Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering,
Trinity College, Ireland
Carl-Olof Olsson
ABB, Sweden

Conflict of interest
None.

⇑Mohammad Faghri
Department of Mechanical, Industrial, & Systems Engineering,
University of Rhode Island, 51 Lower College Road,Kingston, RI 02881, USA⇑ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: faghrim@uri.edu

Janusz Szmyd
Department of Fundamental Research in Energy Engineering, AGH
University of Science and Technology, Poland
Wenquan Tao
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University,
China
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Qiuwang Wang
Key Laboratory of Thermal-Fluid Science and Engineering,
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Yimin Xuan
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Scienceand Technology, China

Jinjia Wei
School of Chemical Engineering and Technology,
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Jinliang Yuan
Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, ChinaZan Wu
Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
Gongnan Xie
School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical
University, China

Tianshou Zhao
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, China
Available online 13 April 2019