Interaction of Disturbances in Shear Flows

Prof. Viktor V. Babenko received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1963 and his PhD in Fluid and Gas Mechanics from the Institute of Hydro-aeromechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) in 1970. Between 1963 and 1965, he worked at the Antonov Design Bureau, a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing company. He has been at the Institute of Hydromechanics since 1965, where he has managed research projects on boundary layers. He has been a professor since 1990, and was the Head of Department until 2000. Throughout his career, he has developed original methodologies for research on boundary layer receptivity to 2D and 3D disturbances, at flows around elastic coatings, near different cavities and ledges, in a vortex chamber, at movement of high-speed surface devices, and others. He has developed control methods for coherent vortical structures arising at various types of flows. From 1989 to 2006, he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Hydromechanics NASU, and since 2000 he has been a member of the Scientific Councils of the Universities of Civil Aviation and Polytechnic in Kiev.

• 1. Interaction of disturbances in the boundary layer2. Coherent vortex structures in shear flows3. Analysis of the boundary layer by the tellurium method　when flowing around a rigid plate　4. Analysis of the boundary layer of a rigid plate with a laser Doppler velocity meter5. Formation of longitudinal vortices in the boundary layer of elastic plates6. Implementation of results7. Formation of vortices in the boundary layer when flowing around cavities8. Vortex structures in the boundary layer in the flow around vortex generators9. Coherent vortex structures arising from the flow around wings10. Control of vortex structures arising in swirling flows