**Meet the editor**

Dr. Mofid Gorji-Bandpy received his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, in 1978. In 1990, he obtained his PhD degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the School of Engineering, University of Wales College of Cardiff (UWCC), UK. At present, he is a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Babol

Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has visited more than 40 countries of the world. His major interests are in advanced methods of energy conversion systems, turbomachinery, fluid mechanics, water distribution network, and the solutions of both energy and environmental problems. He has published more than two hundred papers in these fields. He has also several refereed publications in different fields of mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, and aerodynamics. In addition, he has been an invited editor and reviewer for many international scientific journals.
