Lunev, Vladimir Vasilievich

Born in a family of doctors. He graduated from high school with a gold medal (1949). In the same year he entered the Physics and Technology Faculty of Moscow State University. After the first year, he was transferred to the 2nd year of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University.

In 1954 he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov (special group). After the 4th year, practical training took place at NII-88 and became interested in rocket and space topics.

In 1957, after graduating from the full-time postgraduate study at Moscow State University, where his supervisor was the outstanding scientist and teacher Kh. A. Rakhmatulin , he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences ^[1] . From 1957 to the present, he has been working at NII-88 (now the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering). Since 1963, for 47 years, he headed the laboratory of hypersonic gas dynamics, and since 2010, he has been the chief researcher. Since 2016, he has been the head of the dissertation council at TsNIImash. He participated in the development of all the main products of the RCT. Since 1962 (since 1969 as a professor) he also teaches at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology .

In 1966 he successfully defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.

Member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (elected 1976).

Under the scientific supervision of V. Lunev and him personally:

• A large cycle of works has been carried out on the theory of inviscid and viscous spatial flow around thin blunt bodies, taking into account the real physicochemical properties of the gas (equilibrium and nonequilibrium) associated with hypersonic flight in the atmosphere. New qualitative effects and similarity laws are obtained. Exact and engineering methods for calculating the flow around bodies and boundary layers on them, taking into account entropy and physico-chemical effects in relation to ballistic and planning descent aircraft, have been developed and implemented in practice;
• A new mathematical and physical theory of the evolution of body forms was developed when their heat-shielding coating in hypersonic flight was scorched. Its use in the analysis of full-scale experiments made it possible to discover a number of new properties of heat-protective coatings and to clarify the theory of their destruction. The problem of the mutual influence of the scorch and the dynamics of bodies with a small ballistic coefficient is solved;
• For RF plasmatrons, the effect of nonequilibrium on the structure of the discharge and the flow as a whole has been studied. Diagnostic methods for their jets have been developed. The heterogeneous properties of materials in nonequilibrium gas flows have been experimentally and theoretically investigated. The effect of “catalytic sublimation” of materials due to heterogeneous atomic recombination was discovered. The catalytic activity of the Burana thermal protective coatings was determined, then confirmed by the flight tests of the Burana and Bora, and a number of other studies were performed.

Lunev V.V. is the author and co-author of a number of reference materials and manuals for designers on the aerodynamics, heat transfer and plasma formations of hypersonic aircraft. His monographs “Hypersonic Aerodynamics” ^[2] (1975) and “The Flow of Real Gases with High Velocities” (2007) are widely known.

Prepared 25 candidates and 5 doctors of sciences. He has published over 110 scientific articles, 10 monographs, has 15 copyright certificates for inventions. Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1992).

• Lenin Prize Laureate (1966, with O. M. Belotserkovsky , G.F. Telenin, and others)
• Order “3nak of Honor” (1984)
• Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR (1991)
• Prize named after professor N.E. Zhukovsky, 1st degree (2007)
• Medal named after H.A. Rakhmatulin Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2009)
• Prize named after academician G. G. Cherny (2013) ^[3]

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