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Contact :
Institute of Mechanics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bontchev St., Bl.4,1113 Sofia
Tel. (+3592) 7335 117
e-mail : slavcho@imbm.bas.bg
Personal Data
Nationality
Bulgarian
Date and place of birth :
April 1st, 1943 in Orizovo, Bulgaria
Married, two children
Education
1960 - 1963 Student at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
1963 - 1966 Student at Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, St. Petersbourg University, St. Petersbourg, Russia
1967 - 1970 PhD student at St. Petersbourg University, St. Petersbourg, Russia
1970 Ph. D. Subject of thesis: Approximate solutions of some problems of 
the boundary layer theory
Positions
1966 - 1967 Research Worker, Institute of Technical Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1971 - 1978 Research Fellow, Institute of Mechanics and Biomechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1978 - 1991 Associate Professor, Department of Fluid Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics and Biomechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1989 - 1991 Head of Department of Fluid Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics and Biomechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Since 1992 - Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Fluid Mechanics,
Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Leaves
1978 - 1979 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA - eight monts (Oct/May)
1987 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Moscow, Russia - two months (Oct/Dec)
1993 PECO-CEE grant, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium - three months (April/July)
1994 - 1995 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium - one year (Sept/Aug)
1996 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium - three months (Feb/April)
1996 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium - one month (June/July)
1997 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium - one month
(March/April)
Honours and Awards
1991 Insingia of Honour - awarded by the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia
Research field
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat/Mass Transfer;
- Thermocapillary stability and convection;
- Electrohydrodynamics of dielectric liquids;
- Laminar boundary layers;
- Asymptotic and numerical methods in Fluid Mechanics.
