Nikolai Kochin

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Николай Евграфович Кочин (5/19/1901–12/31/1944)

Born: 19. 5. 1901 in [St Petersburg], Russia

Died: 31 Dec 1944 in [Moscow], USSR

Kochin graduated from Petrograd University in 1923. He taught mathematics and mechanics at Leningrad State University from 1924 to 1934.

In 1925 Kochin married Pelagea Polubarinova.They had two daughters.

Kochin moved to Moscow 1934. He taught mathematics and mechanics at Moscow State University from 1934 until his death and was the head of the mechanics section of the Mechanics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1939 to 1944. In 1943 Kochin became ill with sarcoma and died in 1944.

Kochin's research was on meteorology, gas dynamics and shock waves in compressible fluids. He gave the solution to the problem of small amplitude waves on the surface of an uncompressed liquid in Towards a Theory of Cauchy-Poisson Waves in 1935. He also worked on the pitch and roll of ships. In aerodynamics he introduced formulae for aerodynamic force and for the distribution of pressure.

He wrote textbooks on hydromechanics and vector analysis.

1. Theoretical hydromechanics, by N. E. Kochin, I. A. Kibel, and N. V. Roze. Translated from the fifth Russian ed. by D. Boyanovitch. Edited by J. R. M. Radok. Publisher: New York, Interscience Publishers, [1965,1964]

Biographic articles

1. Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. S M Belotserkovskii, The work of N E Kochin and some current problems of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, N E Kochin and the development of mechanics, 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1984), 115-130.
3. A A Dorodnitsyn, N E Kochin-principles and system of the scientist's work (Russian), N E Kochin and the development of mechanics, 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1984), 8-12.
4. A Yu Ishlinskii, Nikolai Evgrafovich Kochin (Russian), N E Kochin and the development of mechanics, 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1984), 5-8.
5. A Yu Ishlinskii, N E Kochin and theoretical mechanics, N E Kochin and the development of mechanics, 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1984), 169-174.
6. S A Khristianovich, The works of N E Kochin (Russian), N E Kochin and the development of mechanics, 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1984), 13-19.
7. Nikolai Evgrafovich Kochin (on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of his birth) (Russian), Prikl. Mat. Mekh. 55 (4) (1991), 533-534.

Books: P Ya Polubarinova-Kochina, Life and Work of N Y Kochin (Leningrad, 1950).

Articles:

Kochin N On the instability of von Karman vortex streets COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES DE L URSS 24: 19-23 1939

Obituary

Nikolai Evgrafovich Kochin (Russian), Appl. Math. Mech. 9 (1945), 3-12.