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| "Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov," Mech. Solids. 41 (2), 158-159 (2006) |
| Year |
2006 |
Volume |
41 |
Number |
2 |
Pages |
158-159 |
| Title |
Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov |
| Author(s) |
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| Abstract |
Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov, an outstanding scientist in the field of
mechanics, professor, Doctor of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), suddenly
died on January 15, 2006, at an age of 74.
Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov was born on December 3, 1931, in the city of Kirov
(Pesochnya) of Kaluga Region. After graduating with honor from the Department
of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University in 1954, he dealt
about 10 years with the development of aerospace systems in a research
institute of the instrument-making industry. In 1964, he was invited to teach
at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University.
He was the head of a laboratory at the Institute of Mechanics of the Moscow
State University and from 1975 to 1986 the head of the Chair of Theoretical
Mechanics at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. Since 1986 up to the last
days of his life he had taught at the Chair of Applied Mechanics at the
Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University
Almost all his theoretical investigations were closely related to industries
and practical applications. An outstanding stage of his career at the late
1950s and early 1960s was his participation in the creation of the control
system for soft landing of a spacecraft on the Moon surface. He proposed the
method of two-stage stability analysis for multi-dimensional systems possessing
a symmetry.
He made a great contribution to the development of the general theory of
gyroscopic and navigation systems. Using rigorously proved asymptotic methods,
he has established boundaries for the applicability of the precession theory of
gyroscopes and determined systematic drifts of gyrostabilizers. He has
stated the well-posedness conditions for the classical models of mechanics
such as rigid bodies, holonomic and nonholonomic constraints, and sliding modes
in systems with discontinuous right-hand sides. He has proposed a model of
rolling of a deformable wheel which is a generalization of the Carter,
Rocar, Fromm, and Keldysh models. He has constructed and validated
approximate dynamic models of an aircraft, a spacecraft, a magnetically
suspended carriage, transverse vibrations of a railway carriage, the motion of
an automobile, three-, four-, and six-degree-of-freedom dynamic test benches,
and locomotion of biomechanical objects. He has developed a model of the mass
exchange in the human-artificial kidney system that has played an essential
role in the creation of the theory of hemodialysis. He has proposed a technique
for completing the definition of systems with discontinuous characteristics and
has applied this technique to dry-friction systems. He has combined these
diverse investigations of mechanical, transport, electromechanical,
biological, and medical problems under the badge of the fractional analysis. He
has developed a concept that combines the normalizing transformations based on
the dimensional analysis and the asymptotic methods of separation of slow and
fast motions. This concept provides an effective technique for constructing
mathematical models of controlled mechanical systems which are rather lengthy
in description. His monograph "Fractional Analysis" has run through several
editions in Russian, has been translated into English, and has been widely
recognized in the scientific world.
He was a brilliant educator. He delivered interesting bright lectures oriented
to the "final goal" for which the formulas and equations are written. He was
among the first to utilize computer-based educational technologies in teaching
theoretical mechanics at technical universities. His manual "Typical
Computer-based Calculations in Theoretical Mechanics" has become a handbook for
a great number of teachers in theoretical mechanics in Russia and abroad.
He was the leader of an authoritative scientific school in mechanics. He was
the consultant of 4 D.Sc. projects and the supervisor of 18 Ph.D projects.
He was a member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, a member of the Advisory Council on Mathematics and Mechanics of the
Higher Attestation Committee, the Chairman of the Committee of the Russian
Academy of Sciences on the Development of Terminology in Mechanics of
Gyroscopic Systems, a member of the Bureau of the Advisory Council on
Mathematics, Mechanics, and Computer Science of the Russian Foundation for
Basic Research, a member of the Scientific-methodological Council on
Theoretical Mechanics of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, and a
member of the editorial boards of the journal "Izvestiya RAN. MTT [Mechanics
of Solids]" and the book of collected scientific-methodological papers
"Theoretical Mechanics."
He was distinguished not only for his encyclopedic broadness of scientific
interests but also for his exclusive gifts in the literature and art. He was a
great erudite in painting, poetry, and history. He was a brilliant drawer and wrote
poetry and prose. He has created original illustrations for scientific and
popular science books, talented drawings, and a book of poems and drawings
"Without Fear and Shame." He was an author of the books of poems "The Other
Facet" and the author of the remarkable historical book "Born in 1921" devoted
to hard lives of people who had passed through the World War II.
His multifaceted fruitful activity in science and social life was marked
with the award of the State Prize of the USSR (1976), the Lomonosov Prize of the Moscow
State University (1998), medals, and honorary titles.
The blessed memory of Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov, a talented scientist and
teacher, an exclusively modest and charming man, and a genuine patriot will
live forever in our hearts. |
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