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OVERVIEW
In 1964 at the Institute of Mechanics of Lomonosov Moscow State University the laboratory of physical-chemical gasdynamics had been set up under the supervision of Tirskiy G.A., which employed a team of three scientists - Tirskiy G.A., Gershbein E.A., Suslov O.N.; before they worked in the general hydromechanics division.
Over the years, there worked the following scientists at the laboratory: Apshtein E.Z., Brykina I.G., Gershbein E.A., Glazkov Yu.V., Egorova L.A., Efimova L.G., Kovalev V.L., Krupnov A.A., Lebedeva L.L., Lokhin V.V., Sakharov V.I., Suslov O.N., Titov O.V., Fateeva E.I., Khanukaeva D.Y., Shcherbak, V.G., as well as postgraduate and graduate students and scientists researchers of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Tomsk State University.
At the present time there are three Grand PhD Doctor of Science and one Candidate of Science (PhD) at the laboratory.
FIELDS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES
- physical-chemical gasdynamics of thermo-chemically nonequilibrium flows;
- hypersonic aerodynamics and heat and mass transfer of spacecrafts;
- kinetic theory of gases;
- hypersonic aerothermodynamics of transitional flow regime using kinetic and continuum methods;
- computational fluid dynamics;
- aerothermoballistics and destruction of meteoroids in the atmosphere.
Many studies at the laboratory were carried out on order of research institutes of the aerospace industry, and also received financial support from grants ISTC, INTAS, CRDF, RFBR, REC, the Presidium of RAS and others. The results obtained at the laboratory, are known internationally, in particular, the theory of thermo-chemical destruction of thermal-protective coating of spacecrafts entering into atmosphere of the Earth and other planets with hypersonic velocities under the influence of convective and radiative heat fluxes and aerodynamic forces; discovering the effect of diffusion separation of chemical elements due to selectivity of surface catalycity influence on the recombination of atoms; the phenomenological theory of catalytic reactions on reusable thermal-protective coating. Theory of heterogeneous catalysis and taking account of thermo-chemically nonequilibrium kinetics in the calculation of heat transfer in hypersonic flow have been used when elaborating the aerospaceplane "Buran". Heat transfer studies also have been used in flow calculation for entering into Mars atmosphere aircraft.
At the laboratory 19 Ph.D. and 5 Grand PhD theses had been defended.
Laboratory scientists published more than 500 papers in national and international scientific journals, five books, they made more than 400 presentations in national and international conferences, symposia, seminars and scientific schools. There are invention patents.
Laboratory scientists do an educational work: guide the steps of postgraduate and graduate students in their studies, give lectures and seminars at Lomonosov Moscow State University and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
HONOURS
- VDNKh Medals: Bronze (1978, Tirskiy G.A.), Silver (1979, Tirskiy G.A.).
- The second M.V. Lomonosov Prize of Moscow State University for the work "The theoretical study of supersonic viscous nonequilibrium gas flow over bodies" (1985, Tirskiy G.A.).
- First Prize of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education for the best scientific work in the field of aerodynamics and heat transfer (1986, Sakharov V.I., Suslov O.N., Tirskiy G.A.).
- S.A. Chaplygin Gold Medal of Russian Academy of Sciences for the work "thermo-chemically nonequilibrium hydrodynamics" (1995, Tirskiy G.A.)
- P.L. Kapitza Medal "The author of scientific discovery" of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the Association of Authors of Scientific Discoveries (1996, Kovalev V.L., Krupnov A.A., Sakharov V.I., Suslov O.N., Tirskiy G.A.).
- "Peter the Great" Medal of The International Academy of Sciences of Nature and Society (1999, Tirskiy G.A.).
- Medal of the Order of Merit for the Motherland (II degree, 2002, Tirskiy G.A.).
- L.I. Sedov Medal and Prize "For outstanding achievements in the field of fluid mechanics and the general principles of continuum mechanics" (2004, Tirskiy G.A.).
- V.N. Chelomey Medal of Astronautics Federation of Merit for the National Astronautics (2004, Kovalev V.L., Sakharov V.I., Tirskiy G.A.).
- S.P. Korolev Medal of Astronautics Federation of Merit for the National Astronautics (2005, Tirskiy G.A.).
- The title "Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation " (1996, Tirskiy G.A.).
- The title “Soros Professor”, laureate of the International Soros education program in natural sciences, laureate of the Moscow professors (2001-2004, Tirskiy G.A.).
- The title "International Scientist" of International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, UK (2001, Tirskiy G.A.).
- Russian Federation Government Prize in science and technology in 2007 for the work "Development of theoretical basics and software systems for the simulation of multicomponent high-temperature gas and plasma flows and heat transfer to ensure the modern launched and reentry spacecrafts engineering" (2007, Kovalev V.L., Sakharov V.I., Tirskiy G.A. et al.).
- M.V. Keldysh Medal of Astronautics Federation of Merit for the National Astronautics (2012, Kovalev V.L., Sakharov V.I., Tirskiy G.A.).
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