Nikolai Nikolaevich Yanenko (russian: Николай Николаевич Яненко; 22 May 1921 – 16 January 1984) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

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and

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. He was known for his contributions to computational mathematics and

fluid mechanics Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids ( liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them. It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical and ...

. He served as Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Division of the

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Education and research

Yanenko received his Ph.D. degree from

Lomonosov Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1954 under the supervision of Petr Rashevskii. The topic of his doctoral thesis was a problem in multidimensional differential geometry. His scientific interests span several areas of fundamental research, including

gas dynamics Compressible flow (or gas dynamics) is the branch of fluid mechanics that deals with flows having significant changes in fluid density. While all flows are compressible, flows are usually treated as being incompressible when the Mach number (the ...

, the theory of difference schemes, and

computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate ...

. In recognition of Yanenko's scientific contributions the International Conference on "Mathematical Models and Numerical Methods of Continuum Mechanics" was held on May 26, 1996 at the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, Novosibirsk.

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1921 births 1984 deaths Computational fluid dynamicists Soviet mathematicians 20th-century Russian mathematicians Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Stalin Prize Recipients of the USSR State Prize Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Order of Lenin {{Russia-mathematician-stub