Zafer İlken

Zafer İlken
Born	1960 Ankara
Nationality	Turkish
Occupation	Rector of İYTE
Website	iyte.edu.tr/~zaferilken

Zafer İlken is a Turkish educator, university administrator and the author/co-author of numerous scientific papers, who has been serving (since 2006) as the third rector of the İzmir Institute of Technology, founded in 1992.

Zafer İlken received his degrees in mechanical engineering from Ankara's Middle East Technical University (B.Sc., 1982) and İzmir's Dokuz Eylül University (M.Sc., 1987 and Ph.D., 1990). Among his research writings, which have been published in a number of scientific journals, have been:

• Bilir, Levent & İlken, Zafer (December 2007). "Erratum to 'Total solidification time of a liquid phase change material enclosed in cylindrical/spherical containers'". Applied Thermal Engineering. 27 (17–18): 2929. doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2005.04.025. hdl:11147/2045.

• Erek, Aytunç; Özerdem, Barış; Bilir, Levent & İlken, Zafer (October 2005). "Effect of geometrical parameters on heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of plate fin and tube heat exchangers". Applied Thermal Engineering. 25 (14–15): 2421–2431. doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2004.12.019. hdl:11147/1966.

• Bilir, Levent & İlken, Zafer (July 2005). "Total solidification time of a liquid phase change material enclosed in cylindrical/spherical containers". Applied Thermal Engineering. 25 (10): 1488–1502. doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2004.10.005. hdl:11147/2013.

• Başaran, Tahsin & İlken, Zafer (February 1998). "Thermal analysis of the heating system of the Small Bath in ancient Phaselis". Energy and Buildings. 27 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1016/S0378-7788(97)00013-3.

• Erek, Aytunç & İlken, Zafer (February 1998). "Correlations for planar solidification of some phase change materials". International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 25 (2): 245–250. doi:10.1016/S0735-1933(98)00011-6.

• İlken, Zafer & Gunerhan, Huseyin (October 1996). "An investigation about the relations between the results of heat conduction problems with and without phase change". International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 23 (6): 889–905. doi:10.1016/0735-1933(96)00072-3.

• İlken, Zafer & Erek, Aytunç (September–October 1996). "A correlation for planar solidification of water". International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 23 (5): 679–685. doi:10.1016/0735-1933(96)00050-4.

• Toksoy, Macit & İlken, Zafer (1991). "The effects of phase change during the stand-by period in latent heat energy storage systems". Solar Energy. 47 (2): 69–73. doi:10.1016/0038-092X(91)90036-V.

External links

• Zafer İlken, Professor, İYTE Department of Mechanical Engineering [1]