Grigory Barenblatt Explained

Grigory Barenblatt
Native Name:Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблатт
Native Name Lang:ru
Birth Date:July 10, 1927
Birth Place:Moscow, Russian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality:Russian
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences. University of California, Berkeley
Alma Mater:Moscow State University (Ph.D)
Thesis Title:On the Motion of Suspended Particles in a Turbulent Flow
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Thesis Year:1953
Doctoral Advisor:Andrey Kolmogorov
Boris Levitan
Awards:Lagrange Medal (1995), G. I. Taylor Medal (1999), Timoshenko Medal (2005)
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Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018)[1] was a Russian mathematician.

Education

Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University,[2] Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov.[2]

Career and research

Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957.[2] He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley[3] and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[3] He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994[3] and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics.[3] His areas of research were:[3]

  1. Fracture mechanics
  2. The theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media
  3. The mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids
  4. Turbulence
  5. Self-similarities, nonlinear waves and intermediate asymptotics.

Awards and honors

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/61141.html Grigory I. Barenblatt
  2. Web site: Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt - Curriculum vitae, Members directory, Academia Europaea. 2017-02-15.
  3. Web site: Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, member directory, Academia Europaea. 2017-02-15.
  4. Web site: Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B. https://web.archive.org/web/20060618085806/http://amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf . 2006-06-18 . live. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. May 17, 2011.
  5. Web site: Grigory Barenblatt, Fellows Directory, The Royal Society. Feb 15, 2017.
  6. Web site: CRD's Barenblatt Wins Timoshenko Medal for Applied Mechanics. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory Operated by the University of California. 2017-02-15.