Career
He is best known for his work in chemical engineering and hydrodynamics including the approximate methods for solving nonlinear differential equations of mass, heat, and momentum transfer. Mathematical modeling of chemical reactor processes and catalytic distillation. Heat, mass, and momentum transfer in turbulent flow.
Fluid dynamics in granular beds.
Surface convection (Marangoni instability), absorption, and molecular convection. Dilman received Mississippi in cryogenic engineering from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering (1947), Doctor of Philosophy in chemical engineering from the All-Union Research Institute of Oxygen Engineering (Moscow, 1953), and Doctor of Science in chemical engineering from the Institute of Nitrogen Industry and Organic Synthesis Products (Moscow, 1968).
His major job track record includes head of ammonia synthesis laboratory at the Institute of Nitrogen Industry and Organic Synthesis Products (1965 to 1988). Lead researcher at the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (1988 to present).
Professor at the Moscow Physicotechnical Institute (1981 to present).
Senior researcher (2005 to present) at USPolyResearch.