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Genick Bar-Meir holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Min-
nesota and a Master in Fluid Mechanics from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Bar-Meir was
the last student of the late Dr. R.G.E. Eckert. Much of his time has been spend do-
ing research in the field of heat and mass transfer (this includes fluid mechanics)
related to manufacturing processes and design. Currently, he spends time writ-
ing books and software for the POTTO project (see Potto Epilogue). The author
enjoys to encourages his students to understand the material beyond the basic
requirements of exams.
In his early part of his professional life, Bar-Meir was mainly interested in
elegant models whether they have or not a practical applicability. Now, this author’s
views had changed and the virtue of the practical part of any model becomes the
essential part of his ideas, books and softwares.
He developed models for Mass Transfer in high concentration that be-
came a building blocks for many other models. These models are based on analyt-
1
ical solution to a family of equations . As the change in the view occurred, Bar-Meir
developed models that explained several manufacturing processes such the rapid
evacuation of gas from containers, the critical piston velocity in a partially filled
chamber (related to hydraulic jump), supply and demand to rapid change power
system and etc. All the models have practical applicability.
These models have been extended by several research groups (need-
less to say with large research grants). For example, the Spanish Comision Inter-
ministerial provides grants TAP97-0489 and PB98-0007, and the CICYT and the
European Commission provides 1FD97-2333 grants for minor aspects of that mod-
els. Moreover, these models were used in numerical works, in GM, British industry,
and even Iran.
The author believes that this book, as in the past, will promote new re-
1 Where the mathematicians were able only to prove that the solution exists.

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