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Grigory Barenblatt

Grigory Barenblatt

Russian mathematician (1927–2018)


Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018)[1] was a Russian mathematician.

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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][3]

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[4] and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[4] He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994[4] and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics.[4] His areas of research were:[4]

  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


References

  1. "Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt - Curriculum vitae, Members directory, Academia Europaea". Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  2. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-06-18. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  3. "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. Retrieved 2017-02-15.

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