Development of R. I. Soloukhin’s scientific line of investigations at the heat and mass transfer institute

Abstract

The history of development of works on physical gasdynamics and high-temperature thermal physics that were initiated by the outstanding scientist, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician of the BSSR Academy of Sciences, Lenin Prize Winner Rem Ivanovich Soloukhin at the A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is described. Particular emphasis is placed on investigations into physicochemical kinetics under nonequilibrium conditions, combustion, detonation, and the gasdynamics of explosions and reactive systems; these investigations have been carried out at the Institute during the last three decades. Also, R. I. Soloukhin’s works at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where the foundations of this scientific line of investigations were laid, are briefly described.