INZHENERNO-FIZICHESKII ZHURNAL IS 50

In January 2008, we marked the 50th anniversary of the 
first issue of "Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal" (IFZh). The journal 
was founded by the outstanding thermal physicist Academician A. V. 
Luikov who headed it till the end of his life.

For half a century IFZh has retained its thematic orientation 
by publishing original papers and reviews on a broad range of problems 
of heat and mass transfer: heat conduction, thermodynamics, thermodynamics 
of irreversible processes, theory of drying, and transfer processes 
in phase transformations, in dispersive and porous media, in low-temperature 
plasmas, in rheological media, and in turbulent flows. In recent years, 
there has been a significant increase in the number of publications 
in new areas: synthesis of nanomaterials, power engineering, ecology, 
filtration combustion, and transfer processes in nonequilibrium chemically 
reacting media, in fuel cells, etc. As has been pointed out in the 
editorial of IFZh's first issue, the journal "sets itself the goal 
of contributing to the maximum introduction of the results of scientific 
physical investigations into engineering practice."

The editors and editorial board of IFZh include well-known 
scientists from different countries. Many scientists-thermal physicists 
from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine participate in reviewing the manuscripts 
of the papers submitted to IFZh. We extend our sincere jubilee greetings 
to all of them and express our profound gratitude for their great 
help in raising the scientific level of the journal.

The editors express their appreciation to Springer Science+Business 
Media, since it is due to their efforts that the journal is also published 
in English and distributed in various countries of the world.

During the period of its existence "Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal" has been headed by well-known scientists-thermal physicists:

A. V. Luikov (1958-1974) - Academician, first 
director of the Heat and Mass Transfer Institute,

S. S. Zabrodskii (1974-1975) - Corresponding 
Member of the Academy of Sciences, well-known scientist in the field 
of heat and mass transfer in dispersive media,

A. G. Shashkov (1976-1989) - Academician, 
well-known scientist in the field of thermophysical characteristics 
of gases, liquids, and solids,

O. G. Martynenko (1989-2003) - Academician, 
well-known scientist in the field of free convective heat transfer 
and power engineering,

V. I. Timoshpolskii (2003-2005) - Doctor 
of Technical Sciences, Professor, well-known scientist in the field 
of thermal physics of metallurgical processes,

S. A. Zhdanok (since April 2005) - Academician, 
well-known scientist in the field of physics and chemistry of combustion 
and nonequilibrium processes of transfer.

Editors