Literati Awards for Excellence

Citation

Aplin, C. (1999), "Literati Awards for Excellence", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 9 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/hff.1999.13409faa.001

Literati Awards for Excellence

Literati Awards for Excellence

On 26 April 1999, MCB University Press held its annual Awards for Excellence and Editors' workshop at the Hilton National London Olympia hotel, UK. Editors of many of MCB's journals attended an afternoon workshop where various topics were discussed including International Research Registers (go to http://www.mcb.co.uk/literati/research_registers/ for further details), copyright, the role of the publisher and quality of publications. The workshop was followed by an award ceremony where authors of the most outstanding papers from the 1998 volume for each journal were recognised and presented with a plaque by the guest of honour, The Reverend Graham Cornish, who is responsible for copyright law within the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). The award for the International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow went to N. Massarotti of Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, UniversitÈ degli studi di Cassino, Cassino, Italy, and P. Nithiarasu and O. C. Zienkiewicz of the Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, UK for their paper, "Characteristic-based-split (CBS) algorithm for incompressible flow problems with heat transfer", Vol. 8 No. 8. N. Massarotti and P. Nithiarasu collected the award (Plate 1).

The authors' awards were followed by awards for Leading Editors and finally for the Editor of the Year, which went to Patricia Layzell-Ward, the editor of Library Management. The ceremony was followed by a champagne reception and a dinner for all the winning authors, editors, guests and MCB editorial staff. It was a wonderful event and a very productive evening. Many of the attendees said that it was very useful to meet up with fellow authors and editors, both in their own fields and from other disciplines. We at MCB found it a great help to be able to put some names to faces. It was good to meet up with old acquaintances and to make some new ones. We look forward to next year's event.

Cathy AplinManaging Editor

Plate 1N. Massarotti and P. Nithiariasu receive their award from the Reverend Cornish

The winning paper and authors

"Characteristic-based-split (CBS) algorithm for incompressible flow problems with heat transfer", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 8 No. 8 (1998).

N. Massarotti, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli studi di Cassino, Cassino, Italy

P. Nithiarasu and O. C. Zienkiewicz of the Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, UK

Abstract: In our earlier papers we have presented a general algorithm for the solution of both compressible and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The objective of the present work is to show the performance of this algorithm when it is used to solve thermal flow problems. Both natural and forced convection and transient problems are considered in this study. The semi-implicit form of the algorithm has been used to deal with a variety of these problems

N. Massarotti graduated with a first-class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 and started to work at the University of Cassino, Italy with the group of applied thermodynamics at the University of Cassino. Since 1997 he has also been a PhD student at the University of Wales Swansea under the supervision of Professor O.C. Zienkiewicz. In 1998 he became an assistant researcher of the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Strutture, Ambiente e Territorio (DiMSAT) at the Università degli Studi di Cassino. His research interests are related to applied thermodynamics, heat transfer and thermofluidynamic measurements. In particular he is interested in finite element and other numerical methods in these fields.

Dr P. Nithiarasu is a Research Officer at the Civil Engineering Department, University of Wales Swansea, UK. His research interests include finite element method, flow, heat and mass transfer problems, porous medium, heat exchangers, solar equipments etc. He has published over 25 papers including 17 international journal papers.

Professor O. C. Zienkiewicz, CBE, FRS, Feng. is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering at the University of Wales Swansea, UK. He holds the UNESCO Chair of Numerical Methods in Engineering at the Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain and the Joe C. Walter Chair of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is one of the early pioneers of the finite element method and the first to realise its general potential for solution of problems outside the area of solid mechanics. In recent years he started a new approach to error estimation which numerical studies show to be optimal. Since his first paper in 1947, Professor Zienkiewicz has published more than 500 papers and written or edited 25 books.