Authors for Engineering Data Book III

John R. Thome

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

John R. Thome is Professor of Heat and Mass Transfer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland since 1998, where he is director of the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM) in the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology (STI). His primary interests of research are two-phase flow and heat transfer, covering boiling and condensation of internal flows, external flows, enhanced surfaces and microchannels. He received his Ph.D. at Oxford University, England in 1978 and was formerly a professor at Michigan State University. From 1984 to 1998, he set up and operated his own international engineering consulting company specializing in enhanced heat transfer surfaces and enhanced heat exchanger design methods. He is the author of several books: Enhanced Boiling Heat Transfer (1990) and Convective Boiling and Condensation (1994). He received the ASME Heat Transfer Division's Best Paper Award in 1998 for a 3-part paper on flow boiling heat transfer published in the Journal of Heat Transfer. The website of his laboratory is http://ltcm.epfl.ch and his email address is john.thome@epfl.ch.