W. Wu
Dept. of Thermal Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 1000083, CHINA

J. H. Du
Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

B. Ma
Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Bu-Xuan Wang
Laboratory of Phase Change and Interfacial Transport Phenomena, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Professor Wang has been an influential educator of thermal engineering in China. He established firstly a new speciality â Engineering Thermophysics in Tsinghua University in 1957. Professor Wang was a founding member of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics. He was appointed by the State Education Commission as Chairman of the Committee for Basic Engineering Teaching on Thermodynamics & Heat Transfer in Colleges and Universities during 1979-1995, and as a leading member of the evolving section Power Engineering & Engineering Thermophysics of National Degree Committee from 1981-1997. Professor Wang's research, a number of projects he undertook were prompted by national needs. For example, from 1963 to 1966, he led a research team seeking to accelerate the synthesis of ammonia in a large Sichuan chemical plant by enhancing heat transfer through a resign of compact heat exchanger within a tower so as to provide more effective catalystic volume and to obtain a more favorable temperature distribution in the piled catalyst. The efforts resulted in a doubling of the daily production, which is listed in the State Conncil's Government Bulletin of 1966 as one of the hundred important achievements.