MELESHCHENKO

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9.12.1904 Petrovskoe/RU -.12.1941 WWII/RU

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Nikolai Timofeevich Meleshchenko was born in the Stavropol region. He graduated in 1926 from the Faculty of physics and mathematics of the Dnieprpropetrovsk University in Ukraine to continue his studies at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, from where he graduated as a hydraulic engineer in 1930. Until 1941 he worked at GIDEP, today's Hydroproekt Institution in Russia, where he was appointed senior scientific staff member in 1941. Meleshchenko passed away in World War II as a soldier of the Red Army.

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Based on his twofold education in mathematics and engineering, Meleshchenko applied theoretical concepts to practical questions in engineering. He is particularly known for research in groundwater flow applied to earth dams, thereby following the tradition of the Leningrad Hydraulic Institute. He also presented research relating to the determination of internal pressure distribution in rock formations. Further, he took interest in the design of arch dams, then a topic posing great technical problems as the dam heights increased and the dam thicknesses reduced in parallel. Moreover, Meleshchenko was an outstanding hydraulic engineer treating interaction problems of waves with hydraulic structures, and the propagation of waves in estuaries. He also predicted the main features of water waves using the then popular characteristic method. A number of papers were published posthumously.

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_{Meleshchenko, N.T. (1936). Groundwater flow under flat bottomed structure resting on porous soil underlain by inclined watertight strata. Izvestiya VNIIG 19: 44-49 (in Russian, with English summary).}

_{Meleshchenko, N.T. (1938). On the doctoral dissertation of I.V. Egiasarova "Unsteady flows in channels". Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo 8(7/8): 32-36 (in Russian).}

_{Meleshchenko, N.T. (1941). Waterhammer in pipe lines: General method of analysis. Izvestiya VNIIG 29: 1-32 (in Russian, with English summary).}

_{Meleshchenko, N.T. (1948). Plane hydraulic problems for open channels. Izvestiya VNIIG 36: 3-33 (in Russian).}

_{Meleshchenko, N.T., Yakubov, M.S. (1948). Unsteady open channel flow computations using Khristianovich's method. Izsvestiya VNIIG 38: 29-70 (in Russian).}

_{Meleshchenko, N.T., Yakubov, M.S. (1948). Methods for discrete wave computations in prismatic channels. Izvestiya VNIIG 38: 71-94 (in Russian).}

_{Melua, A.I. (2001). Meleshchenko, Nikolai Timofeevich. Energetics of Russia: 240.}

_{Humanistica: Moscow, Saint Petersburg (in Russian).}