VORONETS

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30.1.1902 Kiev/RU - 19.10.1974 Beograd/YU

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Konstantin (Constantin) Petrovich (Pierre) Voronets (Woronetz) was born in the Ukraine as a son of a well-known Russian scientist. Immediately after the October Revolution his family moved to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where Voronets received his university education at the Department of Mathematics and Physics. He there gained also the PhD title in 1930. Subsequently, Voronets moved to Paris and joined the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of the French Ministry of Aviation. Under the supervision of Henri Villat (1879-1972), Voronets defended a second doctoral thesis in 1935, consisting of the Stability of convective fluid flow, and The flow in thin layers over curved surfaces. These topics were then studied by his colleagues Henri Bénard (1874-1939) and Dimitri Riabouchinsky (1882-1962).

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Voronets returned to Belgrade in 1935 but joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Technical Sciences of Belgrade University only in 1947. He there was appointed professor of fluid mechanics in 1954. In addition to the problems investigated in Paris, Voronets also analyzed problems of gas dynamics, hydraulic analogies, and the application of non-analytic functions and monogenic quarternions in fluid mechanics. His scientific work was characterized by precise physico-mathematical modeling of a statement and its exact mathematical treatment. In total, Voronets published 58 papers and four university textbooks. He was elected a Corresponding Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1958 and was transferred to a full member in 1963. Voronets was one of the founders of the Yugoslav Society of Mechanics, of which he was posthumously awarded Honorary Member. He retired from the University of Belgrade in 1971, and passed away shortly later.

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_{Djordjevic, V. (2006). Konstantin Petrovich Voronets. Personal communication. P}

_{Voronets, K.P. (1934). Perturbations provoquées dans le mouvement d'un fluide par des variations de la température. Publications scientifiques et techniques du Ministère de l'Air 60. Gauthier-Villars: Paris.}

_{Voronets, K.P. (1934). Mouvements des fluides en couches minces sur des surfaces courbes. Annales de la Faculté des Sciences Toulouse, Série 3 26: 1-64.}

_{Voronets, K.P. (1953). L'influence de la pesanteur sur la forme du jet liquide. Comptes Rendus}

_{Académie des Sciences, Paris 236: 271-273.}

_{Voronets, K.P. (1951). Tehnička hidromehanika. Naučna Knjiga: Beograd.}