Valery Ochkov is Professor at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University – MPEI – www.mpei.ru) in the Department of Theoretical Basics of Thermal Engineering (TOT), founder and general manager of Trieru (www.trie.ru), an engineering consulting firm that develops simulators and analytical software for the power industry. He also works at Joint Institute for High Temperatures (www.jiht.ru) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and at Moscow High School at MPEI. He is a member of the working group on thermodynamics of the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) and PTC Mathcad Community (https://community.ptc.com). He has authored more than 25 books in Russian and English and numerous journal articles on the use of math software for solving the problems in thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer and fluid dynamics. Professor Ochkov is one of the creators of WaterSteamPro™, an application for simulating thermophysical properties of water and steam and also a co-creator of web-calculations for the Elsevier/Knovel website.
. . . the book can serve as a nice manual on the Mathcad software, and it can be very useful to teachers and lecturers looking for new examples to enrich their presentations, which is especially important nowadays with necessity to employ the remote teaching and distance learning. - Technometrics, Volume 62, 2020 - Issue 4