《國際傳熱傳質》雜誌主編撰文祝賀陶文銓教授75歲壽辰

近期，國際傳熱領域權威雜誌《國際傳熱傳質》2014年第70卷第2期專門刊文祝賀陶文銓教授75歲生日。文章從求學歷程、國際影響、科學研究、教書育人等方面介紹了陶文銓教授的事跡，這不僅是對陶文銓教授個人的祝福和肯定，也是對我校、我國在國際傳熱傳質領域貢獻的褒獎和期望。

陶文銓，男，1939年3月生於浙江紹興。中國科學院院士，西安交通大學教授，博士生導師。1962年西安交大本科畢業，1966年西安交大研究生畢業（導師楊世銘教授），1980－1982赴美國明尼蘇達大學機械系傳熱實驗室進修，師從E M Sparrow 教授。現為西安交大能源與動力工程學院教授、博士生導師。2005年被選為中國科學院院士。曾任教育部高等學校熱工課程教學指導分委員會主任委員，教育部能源動力學科教學指導委員會副主任委員，中國工程熱物理學會副理事長，傳熱傳質專業委員會委副主任委員，現任西安交通大學學報（自然科學版）主編，International Journal of Heat Mass Transfer 、International Communication in Heat Mass Transfer 及ASME Journal of Heat Transfer的副編輯（Associate Editor），國際雜誌Numerical Heat Transfer（A，B） 與Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics 編委。

陶文銓教授在傳熱與流動的先進數值計算方法及其應用、強化傳熱的基本理論與工程應用、電子元器件的冷卻技術、湍流模型及其工程應用、高效換熱器的優化設計與研發、微細尺度流動和傳熱的研究、多尺度系統/過程建模與數值預測等方面都做出了重要的貢獻，發表國際期刊文章300餘篇，作特邀或主題報告30餘次，獲2004國家自然科學獎二等獎和2009國家技術發明獎二等獎各1項，發起了「亞洲計算傳熱學學術會議（ASCHT）」，指導畢業博士研究生100餘名獲得學位，編著著作10餘部，所著專著《數值傳熱學》已經被國內外期刊論文引用六千餘次。

Prof. Wen-Quan Tao, Chinese Academician, on his 75th birthday

Professor Wen-Quan Tao, a Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor of Xi』an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi』an, China, celebrates his 75th birthday this year. It is a great pleasure for us on this occasion to express our sincere congratulations on his outstanding contributions and pioneer achievements in the field of numerical heat transfer and heat transfer enhancement.

Professor Tao was born in Zhejiang Province, China on 3 March 1939. He graduated from XJTU in 1962. From 1963 he became a graduate student of Professor Shi-Ming Yang. Since 1966 onwards, he worked as a lecturer of heat transfer at XJTU. From 1980–1982, he was a visiting scholar supervised by Professor E.M. Sparrow at the University of Minnesota in USA. In 1986, he became a full Professor at XJTU. Afterwards, he was appointed as Guest Professors of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010, Universite Paris-Est Marne la Vallee in 2009 and 2007, Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003, Kyushu University of Japan in 1997. He has been serving as President of Xi』an Jiaotong-Liverpool University since its foundation in 2006.

Professor Tao has been active in national and international scientific organizations. At present, he serves as associate editors of International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, International Communications in Heat & Mass transfer and ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. He is also a member of Advisory Board of Numerical Heat Transfer and Editorial Board of Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, and a Member of Scientific Council of International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT). As one of the initiators, he organized the first Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow at XJTU in 2007, and now it becomes one of the international important events held in this ascendant field every two years.

Professor Tao has always focused his research work on fundamentals and applications of finite volume method. In early years, he made remarkable contributions on the discretization of convective term, and velocity–pressure coupling algorithm, etc. Recently, Professor Tao has focused his studies on the microscale and nanoscale fluid flow and heat transfer, and multiscale numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer in microelectronics, fuel cells, pollutant dispersions, and extreme thermal insulations.

Professor Tao also made great contributions in heat transfer enhancement theory, mechanisms and engineering applications. He extended the field synergy principle from parabolic flow to elliptical flow, and showed that it can unify existing heat transfer enhancement mechanisms of single phase flow (increasing flow disturbance, decreasing thermal boundary layer thickness, etc.). He also proposed a comprehensive performance evaluation plot for heat transfer enhancing techniques which conforms three evaluation constraints (identical pumping power, identical pressure drop and identical flow rate) to a uniform manner.

Professor Tao has been an influential educator of Engineering Thermophysics in China. He has supervised over 50 doctoral students and has been teaching many undergraduate students. He wrote more than 10 textbooks (in Chinese) related to heat transfer and numerical heat transfer for undergraduates and postgraduates. His Numerical Heat Transfer book (in Chinese), first published in 1987, is welcomed as a favorite graduate textbook in China.

On behalf of Professor Tao’s former students, colleagues and friends, we wish him all the best for the future.

 

W.J. Minkowycz*，Z.Y. Guo，P. Cheng，T. Simon，A. Mohamad，N. Hur，C.F. Ma，X. Zhang，Y.L. He，Q.W. Wang

*Corresponding author: W.J. Minkowycz