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Gregory Sivashinsky

Who

Gregory Sivashinsky · Science & Medicine

What

Fluid mechanics

When

1945, Moscow, Russia (then USSR)

Where

Soviet Union · Israel

Biography

Gregory Sivashinsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fluid mechanics

How & why

Sivashinsky is a mathematician and combustion scientist whose equations for flame instabilities — including the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation and the Michelson–Sivashinsky equation — became cornerstones of the theory of turbulent flames and of nonlinear pattern formation. A student of Zel'dovich and Barenblatt, he holds a combustion chair at Tel Aviv University. A Soviet Jewish émigré, he emigrated from the USSR to Israel in 1971.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Fluid Mechanics

Contributions & Sources

Fluid mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Fluid Mechanics