Applied Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics in Memory of Prof. Isaak P. Ginzburg

Dear Colleagues,

Prof. Isaak P. Ginzburg (March 10, 1910–March 29, 1979) was a prominent Soviet scientist and leader of a scientific school in applied aerodynamics and gas dynamics, supersonic jet flows, internal gas flows in chambers and channels. After 1945, he contemporarily worked at Baltic State Technical University “VOENMEH” (former Leningrad Mechanical Institute) as Head of Department of Aerodynamics, Gas Dynamics and Flight Dynamics and Saint Petersburg State University (former Leningrad State University) as Professor and Head of Laboratory of Gas Dynamics. The large cycle of his studies, since the 1950s, was focused on the theoretical and experimental research of supersonic jet flows, turbulent boundary layers of wings and bodies of revolution in the presence of diffusion and the dissociation of molecules, heat radiation, and magnetic and electric fields. Several generations of Soviet and post-Soviet students used his Prof. I.P. Ginzburg’s textbooks “Applied Hydrodynamics and Gas Dynamics” (1958), “Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics” (1966), “Theory of Drag and Heat Transfer” (1970), “Friction and Heat Transfer in Gas Mixtures” (1975).

His numerous students (about 120 of them became PhD or Cand.Sci.; 36 became Professors or Dr.Sci.), such as Profs. V.G. Dulov, V.N. Uskov, V.N. Emel’yanov, Yu.M. Tsirkunov, S.A. Isaev, O.A. Tolpegin, G.A. Lukyanov, B.A. Rayzberg, A.M. Sizov, E.I. Sokolov, G.A. Akimov, G.T. Aldoshin, Yu.P. Savelyev, A.S. Shalygin, V.A. Sannikov, S.A. Kabanov and many others have developed his studies and achieved outstanding results in supersonic gas jet flows (including compound jets, jet/obstacle interaction and shock-wave structure of supersonic jet flows), aeroacoustics, multiphase flows, aerodynamics and flight control, rarefied gas dynamics, interaction of shock and blast waves and their control (including blast waves mitigation), internal gas dynamics of combustion in rocket engines, other jet and detonation engines, the use of jet flows to technology problems (for example, in metallurgy).

Most active researchers, who now belong to scientific school of Prof. I.P. Ginzburg, are the students of his former students; they actively work in different cities of the Russian Federation and abroad (for example, in the USA, the United Kingdom and France). We are inspired by scientific achievements of Prof. Isaak P. Ginzburg and call on our colleagues from different countries to contribute their papers to the Memorial Special Issue dedicated to modern progress in applied supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics, engineering applications of jet flows, jet engines (including detonation ones), shock and detonation waves, shock interactions, real gas flows with discontinuities and instabilities and other topics, which are close to I.P. Ginzburg’s heritage.

Dr. Mikhail Chernyshov
Guest Editor

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