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Personal report

70th birthday of Professor Mikhail Dimitrov Mikhailov

Prof. Mikhail D. Mikhailov was born in Pavel, Bulgaria,
on January 27th, 1934. He received his engineering education at the Technical University Soﬁa, obtaining the equivalent to the M.Sc. in 1958, the equivalent to the Ph.D. in1969, and reaching the Doctor of Sciences degree in 1976.
Since 1958 he was aﬃliated with the Technical UniversitySoﬁa, becoming an Associate Professor in Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer in 1968, and Full Professor in 1978.
From 1978 to 1995 he was the Head of the Computer Science Department at the Institute of Applied Mathematics.
From 1992 to 1995 he acted as Chairman of the Bulgarian
Scientiﬁc Council, from 1993 to 1995 he was Chairman ofthe Technical Science Committee of the Bulgarian National
Science Foundation, and since 1966 he is Member of theScientiﬁc Council of the International Center for Heatand Mass Transfer.
Prof. Mikhailov has a very broad international experience, collaborating with various researchers around theworld. He has been a Visiting Scholar at North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, USA (1984, 1986, 1987, and1989), at University of Pisa, Italy (1988), at Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1990–1991, 1995–present), University of Sunderland, UK (1992, 1994), University of Limeric, Ireland (1993). He has enjoyedmembership in editorial advisory boards of prestigious
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international journals such as International Journal ofHeat and Mass Transfer (1966–2000), International
Communications of Heat and Mass Transfer (1966–2000), Journal of Engineering Physics (1966–present), Drying Technology (1985–1990), Communications in Applied
Numerical Methods (1985–present), Applied Mathematical
Modelling (1985–present), and co-editor of Hybrid Methods in Engineering (1999–present). His international reputation and recognition is also evident in his numerous
participations as invited lecturer in various international meetings. He has been one of the distinguishedlecturers on NATO Advanced Studies Institutes held in
Turkey on various important topics of heat and masstransfer.
In terms of research results, he has published about 200
papers in the area of heat transfer, mass diﬀusion, numerical methods, mathematical modelling and computer science, he was the supervisor of over 20 Ph.D. students
and directed more than 10 R&D projects, including joint
projects with the Luikov Institute for Heat Mass Transfer
and Institute for Nuclear Engineering, Minsk, Byelorussia
and a Tempus educational project with University ofSunderland, University of Limerick, and University ofBerlin. He is author or co-author of nine books, including
the treatise ‘‘Uniﬁed Analysis and Solutions of Heat and450

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Mass Diﬀusion’’, John Wiley & Sons, 1984, also DoverPublications, 1994, jointly with M. Necati Ozisik.
Throughout his career Prof. Mikhailov was very active inthe dissemination of analytical and numerical methods,such as integral transforms, ﬁnite diﬀerences and ﬁnite elements, for solving heat and mass transfer problems. For
the last ten years in the Federal University of Rio deJaneiro, Brazil, he has concentrated on the developmentof symbolic computation and hybrid methods, based on
the Mathematica platform.
Everyone that has become acquainted with Prof. Mikhailov or had the opportunity to work with him, hasenjoyed his personality and well-grounded humor. On theoccasion of his birthday, on behalf of his students, colleagues and friends all over the world, we wish him a very
happy birthday and many more active years in good
health and happiness with his wife Zeza, children andgrandchildren.

Renato M. Cotta
Sadik Kakaç
Leonard Vasiliev
Franz Mayinger
Yaman Yener
James P. Hartnett
W.J. Minkowycz
Department of Mechanical Engineering (M/C 251)
University of Illinois at Chicago
842 West Taylor Street
Room 2049 ERF
Chicago, IL 60607-7022
United States
Tel.: +1 312 996 3467; fax: +1 312 413 0447
E-mail address: wjm@uic.edu
Available online 12 September 2005