Abraham KOGAN

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

b. USSR 1921. M.Sc. Hebrew University, 1949. M.Sc. Hebrew University, 1950. M.Sc. Princeton University, 1952. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1956. Princeton University, 1963- 1964. Rothschild Prize 1966. At Technion since 1953. Professor since 1963. Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Sydney Goldstein Professor in Aeronautical Engineering. Professor Emeritus since 1989. Weizmann Institute of Science, Visiting Scientist since 1989.

MAIN INTERESTS

Transport phenomena, desalination, solar energy.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Separation of a gas mixture in curved supersonic flow", Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, 9, Jan. 1966.

"On some aspects of flash distillation without metallic interfaces", Desalination, 4, 1968 (with M. Victor).

"On the condensation of an injected vapor bubble in a subcooled liquid stream", Progress in Heat and Mass Transfer, 6, 1972 (with J. Denekamp and A. Solan).

"Direct contact condensation multistage flash distillation", Desalination, 19, 1976.

"Open cycle OTEC system with falling jet evaporator and condenser", Proc. 7th Ocean Energy Conf., Washington, D.C., 1980 (with D.H. Johnson, D.A. Olson and H.J. Green).

"Indirect temperature measurements of a hot gas stream", Experimental Mechanics, 33, 2, June 1993.

"Direct solar thermal splitting of water and on-site separation of the products. I. Theoretical evaluation of hydrogen yield", Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 22, 1997.

"Direct solar thermal splitting of water and on-site separation of the products. II. Experimental feasibility study", Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 23, 1998.

"The tornado flow configuration - An effective method for screening of a solar reactor window", J. Solar Energy Engineering, 124, No. 3, (2002) (Trans. ASME) (with M. Kogan). 

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