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Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician.
Education
Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov.
Career and research
Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957. He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994 and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. His areas of research were:
Fracture mechanics
The theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media
The mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids
Turbulence
Self-similarities, nonlinear waves and intermediate asymptotics.
Awards and honors
References
External links
Grigory Barenblatt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Applied mechanics: an age old science perpetually in rebirth (pdf). The Timoshenko Medal acceptance speech by Grigory Barenblatt (to be published by ASME in summer 2006).
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Grigory Barenblatt
- Grigory
- Benjamin Kagan
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Method of matched asymptotic expansions
- Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast wave
- Index of physics articles (G)
- July 10
- List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2000
- List of University of California, Berkeley faculty
