Milivoje Kostic

Then he worked as a researcher in thermal engineering and combustion at Vinca Institute for Nuclear Sciences, which then hosted the headquarters of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT), and later taught at the University of Belgrade.

[1] Kostic has been the Section First Editor-in-Chief of Thermodynamics (2015-2024) [6] of the journal Entropy, published by MDPI having previously been a Guest Editor of two Special issues on Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.,[4][5] [7] Kostic has also worked in industry and has authored a number of patents and professional publications, including invited articles in professional encyclopedias.

[23] Some other unjustified claims, fundamentally misplaced and dramatized, like “heat flowing from cold to hot without external intervention,” have been critically analyzed and demystified by Kostic.

[26] More recently Kostic presented a plenary lecture "Engineering Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Challenges" at Sadi Carnot's Legacy International Colloquium at Ecole Polytechnique.

It presents Carnot’s "Réflexions" on “heat engine reversible cycles and their maximum efficiency,” among the most important treatises in natural sciences, and the critical and sometimes misleading issues related to the Second law of thermodynamics.