Background
ZHUKOVSKIY, Nikolay was born on January 17, 1847 in village Orekhovo, now Vladimir Oblast. Son of a railroad engineering
Hydromech and aeromech engineer
ZHUKOVSKIY, Nikolay was born on January 17, 1847 in village Orekhovo, now Vladimir Oblast. Son of a railroad engineering
1868 graduate Physics and Mathematics Faculty, Moscow University.
From 1872 mathematics lecturer, 1874-1879 associate professor, from 1879 professor and from 1887 head, Chair of Mechanical, Moscow Higher Technical College. From 1885 also associate professor, from 1886 professor extraordinarius, Chair of Mechanical, Moscow University. 1872—1920 also taught mech at Practical Academy of Business Sciences.
From 1918 sci director, Centr Aerohydrodynamic Institute. From 1918 also worked at Experimental Institute of Means of Communication, where he founded an Aerodynamics Department and planned research on air resistance to the movement of trains and automobiles. 1904 sponsored foundation in village Kuchin, near Moscow of Europe’s first Aerodynamics Institute.
1910 founded Aerodynamics Laboratory at Moscow Higher Technical College. During World War 1 and Civil War directed Aviation Calculation and Testing Bureau, Moscow Higher Technical College, which developed methods for aerodynamic and strength calculation of airframes. Organized at Moscow Higher Technical College theoretical courses for military pilots, later reorganized into the Moscow Aviation Technicum and subsequendy into the Institute of Aviation Engineer, and then in 1922 into the Zhukovskiy Air Force Engineer Academy.
Did research on aerodynamics and aviation, hydraulics and hydrodynamics, mech of invariable systems and mathematics and astronomy. 1891 published his major study O paradokse Dyubuya (The Dubois Paradox) in which he demonstrated that the reason for the great resistance of a static body in a moving liquid compared with the resistance of the same body moving in a static liquid is the formation of vortices in the liquid stream. 1904 discovered the law governing the lift of a plane’s wing.
1910-1911 established the best profiles for wings and plane airscrews. 1912-1918 developed airscrew vortical theory. Founded the sci of experimental aerodynamics.
1902 supervised establishment of one of the world’s first wind tunnels and invented a device for testing airscrews. In the field of hydraulics and hydrodynamics devised methods for determining the effects on a vessel of an inflowing or outflowing liquid, of use in solving the tech problem of designing jet-powered vessels. Carried out various research on the theory of the pitching and tossing of marine vessels.
1898 founded the theory of so-called hydraulic impact. Also studied the theory of the motion of a heavy, solid body around a fixed point, the stability of motion, theoretical astronomy, et cetera From 1876 member, from 1905 president, Moscow Mathematics Social.
Also member, Moscow Social of Experimental Scientists and Social of Natural Scientists, Anthropologists and Ethnographers. 1920 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic government appointed a Zhukovskiy Prize for the best works on mathematics and mechanic Often termed “The Father of Russian Aviation”.
Correspondent member, Russian Academy of Sciences from 1894.