Margolin, Arkady Davidovich

Arkady Davidovich Margolin was born on May 21, 1929 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR in a family of employees. In the same 1929 the family moved to Moscow. Father - Margolin David Aronovich, was born in 1883 in the city of Mozyr (Belarus), died in 1968 in Moscow. Mother - Margolina Fanya Abramovna, was born in 1899 in the city of Dubrovno (Belarus), died in 1988 in Moscow. From 1941 to 1944, the family was evacuated in the village of Dyurtyuli in Bashkiria.

In 1947, he entered the Physics and Technology Faculty of Moscow State University , which during his studies was transformed into the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , and graduated in 1953 with a degree in experimental physics, among the second issue of MIPT ^[1] . After graduating from MIPT from 1953 to 1954, he worked as an engineer in the Special Design Bureau of the Ministry of Building Materials, but then, with the help of Dubovitsky, F. I. transferred to the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences as a junior research fellow in the combustion laboratory, whose head was Snatched P.F.

In 1961 he defended his thesis, and in 1968 - a doctoral dissertation. At the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, he taught at the Department of Combustion and Explosion Physics since 1967, first as an assistant professor, and since 1976 as a professor in the specialty of chemical physics, including combustion and explosion physics. He headed the section of the Scientific Council for Combustion of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

All the scientific activity of A.D. Margolin was connected with the combustion department of the Institute of Chemical Physics , where he worked from 1954 to 2007, heading the combustion laboratory.

Most of the early works performed by Margolin in the combustion laboratory of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences were devoted to the study of the combustion of gunpowder and explosives. A. D. Margolin was one of the leading specialists in the theory of combustion in the USSR. The vibrational combustion work cycle has allowed developing methods for controlling the stability of combustion in solid propellant rocket engines and furnace burners used in the chemical industry.

Margolin's most famous work is connected with the study of critical phenomena and the limits of combustion of condensed matter under various conditions. In particular, he established the criterion for the transition of the combustion of powdered and porous explosives into an explosion, and developed the theory of the burning of gunpowders under zero gravity and overload conditions. Together with V. G. Krupkin, he created the theory of critical combustion conditions for polymers and products from them ^[2] , and together with G. N. Mokhin - the theory of ignition of bodies of complex geometric shapes.

In the 1970s, together with V. M. Shmelev, he created gas-dynamic and electric-discharge lasers based on the combustion products of gaseous and solid chemical fuels.

• Margolin AD On the stability of combustion of porous explosives // Doklady AN SSSR. 1961. T. 140, No. 4 - S. 867-869.
• Margolin A. D. On the leading stage of combustion // Doklady AN SSSR, 1961. T. 141, No. 5, P. 1131-1134.
• Margolin A.D., Krupkin V.G. Limit conditions for polymer combustion in an oxidizing atmosphere // Doklady AN SSSR . 1981. T. 257, No. 6, p. 1869-1873.
• Margolin A.D., Mokhin G.N., Krupkin V.G. Ignition of a wedge and cone by a heat flow during a homogeneous reaction // Combustion and Explosion Physics , 1990.V. 26, p. 21-27.
• Shmelev V. M., Margolin A. D., Vasilik N. Ya. Et al. Non-electric method of pumping solid-state lasers // Journal of Technical Physics, 1998, T. 68, N 9. P. 67-70.

• Zel'dovich Ya. B., Barenblatt G.I., Librovich V. B., Makhviladze G. M. Mathematical theory of combustion and explosion. - M .: Nauka, 1980 .-- 479 p.
• Dubovitsky F.I. Institute of Chemical Physics. (Essays on the story) . - M .: Nauka, 1996 .-- 907 p. - ISBN 5-02-010689-5 .