Renato M. Cotta, Leonardo S. de B. Alves e Mikhail D. Mikhailov
Professor Renato Machado Cotta
was born in Niterói, Brazil, on March 5th, 1960. He received his BSc on Mechanical/Nuclear
Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1981, and his
Ph.D. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University,
USA, in 1985. In 1987 he joined the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at EE/COPPE/UFRJ,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, where he became Full Professor in 1997,
and is presently Academic Coordinator of Graduate Studies. He is also Adjunct
Professor at the University of Miami since 1993. Prof. Cotta is the author of
around 220 technical papers, 4 books, and supervisor of around 25 PhD and 25
MSc thesis. He serves in the Honorary Editorial Board of the International Journal
& Int. Comm. of Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal of Thermal Sciences,
International Journal of Numerical Methods in Heat & Fluid Flow, Journal of
the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences, and Advances in Heat Transfer
Series, CMP. He is also the Editor-in-Chief for the international journal "Hybrid
Methods in Engineering". Presently, Prof. Cotta contributes as elected President
to the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences, ABCM, to the Scientific
Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, since 1993,
and as Head of the Center for Analysis and Simulations on Environmental Engineering,
CASEE, a research consortium involving EPRI (USA), Tetra Tech (USA), and COPPE/UFRJ
(Brazil). He is an Elected member of the National Honor Society of Phi Kappa
Phi, USA (1984).