Yuri Ananyevich Mikhailov (born 1.01.1927) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR (1968). He was born in Moscow. He graduated from the University of Latvia (1951). In 1951—67 he was head of a laboratory at the Physico-Energetic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, and from 1967 he has been director of the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR.
His work was in the fields of thermophysics, theoretical heat engineering and magnetohydrodynamics. He developed the physical and technical basis for the use of raw peat as a source of energy, and the theory of coupled heat and mass transfer (together with A. V. Lykov); he substantiated new methods of high-temperature drying and heat treatment of moist dispersed materials, and developed the foundations of the theory of heat and mass transfer in magnetohydrodynamic processes, including those in two-phase and multicomponent systems and in ferrofluids.
USSR State Prize of the Latvian SSR (1976). The A. F. Tsander Prize (1971).