STRUMINSKY

RUSSIA (see also List of Individuals)

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29.4.1914 Orenburg/RU - 22.2.1998 Moscow/RU

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Vladimir Vasilievich Struminsky graduated as a physicist from Moscow State University and there continued with a PhD thesis that he submitted in 1941 to become a collaborator of the Central Aero-Hydrodynamics Institute TsAGI. He was elected Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1957 and promoted to Member in 1966. In 1961 he was awarded the Lenin Prize for his research in aerodynamics. He directed the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Division of USSR Academy of Sciences from 1966 to 1971. There the first low-turbulence transonic and supersonic wind tunnels of the USSR were built. Experimental research included the reduction of aircraft friction by laminarizing boundary layers and thus saving fuel and reducing atmospheric pollution.

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During World War II Struminsky contributed to aviation by the computation of wings at large near-critical angles of attack. He developed a procedure for aerodynamic wing design using a set of profiles with unseparated flow over the wing tip sections to ensure high reliability and flight safety. The mass production of novel wings for highspeed aircraft after World War II was based mainly on Struminsky's advance, for which he was awarded a State Prize. At the end of the 1940s, Struminsky presented exact solutions for three-dimensional boundary layers for yawed and extended swept wings. He demonstrated for critical angles of attack the development of significant cross flows directed along the wing span within the boundary layer. These influence mainly aircraft takeoff, landing and maneuvering and cause flow separation in the wing end sections. Struminsky submitted in 1947 his Doctoral Thesis on the theory of three-dimensional unsteady boundary layers, for which he was awarded the first Zhukovsky Prize and the Gold Medal for the best work in aviation theory.

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_{Anonymous (1994). Vladimir Vasilievich Struminsky. Fluid Dynamics 29(2): 159-160.}

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_{Bushgens, G.S., Bedritcky, E.L. (1993). V.V. Struminsky. TsAGI is the center of aeronautical science: 82-83. Nauka: Moscow (in Russian).}

_{Struminsky, V.V. (1969). Rarified gas dynamics. Academic Press: New York.}

_{Struminsky, V.V. (1974). The effect of diffusion rate on the flow of gas mixtures. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 38: 181-188. http://hp.iitp.ru/eng/26/2686.htm P}