DOLIDZE

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3.2.1908 Tbilisi/RU - 9.9.1960 Tbilisi/RU

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David Egorovich Dolidze graduated in 1928 as a mathematician from the Tbisili State University and was from 1930 to 1933 a post-graduate at the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He gained his PhD and D.Sc. titles in 1933 and 1945, respectively. After having headed the Chair of mathematics at the Forestry Institute of the Tbilisi State University TSU from 1934 to 1938, Dolidze moved in the same position to the Tbilisi Agricultural Institute until 1947. He was then until 1954 Pro-Rector of TSU and finally headed its Hydrodynamics Institute until passing away.

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Dolidze was mainly interested in mathematical problems of viscous flows, such as his 1932 paper treating the classical orifice problem first investigated mathematically by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887) and later by Richard von Mises (1883-1953). In his 1935 work, a summary of his PhD thesis, Dolidze continued on the ideas of Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) in describing certain aspects of viscous flow with a perfect fluid. Until the end of World War II Dolidze was mainly interested in mathematical aspects of hydrodynamics, such as the proper statement of a problems in terms of the boundary conditions. He finally also contributed two text books, among others, on general fluid mechanics.

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_{Dolidze, D.E. (1932). To the question of outflow of a heavy perfect liquid through an orifice. Zapiski GGI 6: 1-10 (in Russian).}

_{Dolidze, D.E. (1935). To the theory of viscous liquid motion independent of viscosity. Izvestiya Zakavk. Industr. Institute 3: 75-82 (in Russian).}

_{Dolidze, D.E. (1938). On a boundary value problem of hydrodynamics. Tbilisi Mat. Institute Shromebi 4: 89-99 (in Georgian).}

_{Dolidze, D.E. (1941). On the linear problem of hydrodynamics in a space of three dimensions. Akademya NAUK USSR 2(6): 497-506 (in Russian).}

_{Dolidze, D.E. (1951). Introduction to the mechanics of deformable bodies. Gamotsema: Tbilisi (in Georgian).}

_{Dolidze, D.E. (1960). Hydro-aeromechanics. Gamotsema: Tbilisi (in Georgian).}

_{Dolidze, D.E. (1962). On the uniqueness of unsteady flow in a boundary layer. 10 IUTAM Congress Stresa: 240-242, F. Rolla, W.T. Koiter, eds. Elsevier: Amsterdam. http://www.rmi.acnet.ge/person/dolidze/%2B http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:hqMikvohR7wJ:www.rmi.acnet.ge/person/dolidze/+ dolidze+DE&hl=de&gl=ch&ct=clnk&cd=6 P}