Professor Emeritus
Mechanical Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4006
Email : kunin AT uh.edu
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Isaak A. Kunin Professor Emeritus Mechanical Engineering University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4006 Email : kunin AT uh.edu |
Education
| M.S. (1952) |
Polytechnical Institute, Leningrad, USSR |
| Ph.D. (1958) | Polytechnical Institute, Leningrad, USSR |
| Doctor of Sciences (1968) | Academy of Sciences, USSR |
| 2003-present
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston |
| 1979-2003 | Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston |
| 1974-1979 |
Professor, Chairman, Department of Mathematics, Electrotechnical Institute, Novosibirsk, USSR |
| 1963-1974 | Professor, Chairman, Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Thermophysics, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk, USSR |
| 1956-1963 | Senior Scientist, Department of Applied Mathematics, Mining Institute, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk, USSR |
| 1952-1956 | Engineer, Head of Mechanical Analysis Division, Turbogenerator Factory,Novosibirsk, USSR |
Fields of Research
| Mechanics of solids and fluids | linear and nonlinear elasticity, media with microstructure and continuously changing topology, theory of dislocations, gauge theory of materials and microdefects, waves in solids and fluids, hydrodynamical theory of lubrication, vortex dynamics. |
| Physics of solids | crystal lattice dynamics, point defects, dislocations, disclinations, cracks. |
| Electrodynamics | electromagnetic fields in media, non-destructive testing, life-time prediction. |
| Mathematical physics | group deformations, space-time quantizations, gauge theory, differential geometry, nonlinear waves, boundary value and variational problems, discrete mathematics. |
| Dynamical systems | chaos, complexity, G-moving frames, optimal gauging, order in chaos, Kolmogorov complexity and algorithms, discretization, physics of chaos, optimal control |