Nationality Russian | Role Mathematician Name Grigory Barenblatt | |
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Native name Grigórii Isaákovich Barenblat Born July 10, 1927 (age 97) ( 1927-07-10 ) Academic advisor Andrey Kolmogorov, Boris Levitan Books Theory of Fluid Flows Through, Scaling - Self‑similarity - and Inter, Scaling, 'Scaling Phenomena in Fluid M, Flow - Deformation and Fract Similar People Andrey Kolmogorov, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Vladimir Arnold | ||
Russian mathematician Grigory BarenblattDied at 90
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; born July 10, 1927) is a Russian mathematician.
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Education
He 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
He also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957. He is a 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 has been Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics since then. His areas of research are:
- 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.