Grigory Barenblatt

Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt is a Russian mathematician, born July 10, 1927. He graduated in 1950 from University of Moscow[?], Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. He is now working at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of research are:

1. The Fracture Mechanics[?]
2. The Theory of Fluid and Gas Flows[?] in Porous Media[?]
3. The Mechanics of a Non-Classical Deformable Solids
4. Turbulence
5. Self-Similarities, Nonlinear Waves[?] and Intermediate Asymptotics[?].

He usually publishes the result of his studies on the Quarterly Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (http://www3.oup.co.uk/qjmamj/)