Prof. Ioan Pop has received the PhD in 1970 from University of Bucharest, Romania.

His research interest is Applied Mathematics: fluid mechanics and heat transfer with applications to the boundary-layer theory, heat transfer in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, magnetohydrodynamics, convective flow in fluid-saturated porous media and nanofluids.

The detailed modeling of geothermal formations or pollutant dispersion in groundwater flows requires accurate simulation of the flows which are induced or modified by buoyancy.

Often such applications may be idealized as external boundary layer flows or cavity flows, but imperfections in the form of non-uniform permeability, layering, etc., are frequently present in real systems.

Such imperfections play the role of altering overall flow and convection characteristics such as plan form selection (of interest to mathematicians) and overall rate of heat transfer (of interest to engineers).

Analytical and numerical methods which he has used for porous media flows have been applied to clear (Newtonian), non-Newtonian flows, micropolar and nanofluids.

Publications:
10 books, 11 review chapters, more than 1000 research journal published papers; these have received a total of ~30,000 citations and the H-index is more than 90. In 2015 and 2016, Prof. Ioan Pop was named a “Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher” and The Most Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2018, 2020 & 2021. Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics, Member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters (Norway), Member of Romanian Academy of Scientists (Romania), International Best Researcher Award 2020, Top 6 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientists 2022, Member of the Board of Editors: Journal of Nanofluids; Advisory Editor: International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow; Honorary Editor: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer; Honorary Editor: International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.