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Vladilen Minin

Vladilen Minin is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Vladilen Minin rather than just read about it. In short: Vladilen Fyodorovich Minin (Russian: Влади́лен Фёдорович Ми́нин; born 27 May 1932, Rudinka, Ryazan Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, a professor, a member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation. He was the founder, general director and chief designer of the Institute of Applied Physics (1966-1996), the founder and president of the Urals-Siberian Bran…

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Vladilen Fyodorovich Minin (Russian: Влади́лен Фёдорович Ми́нин; born 27 May 1932, Rudinka, Ryazan Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, a professor, a member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation. He was the founder, general director and chief designer of the Institute of Applied Physics (1966-1996), the founder and president of the Urals-Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Technological Sciences. He developed air- and navy- launched missiles, custom control and safety systems and computer equipment.

Biography He was born to a family of teachers in the village of Rudinka, Ryazan Oblast. Later the Minin family moved to Nagishy (Lebyazhy Usad) of Gorlovka village settlement in Skopin district of Ryazan Oblast. After his father's return from the Second World War, the Minin family moved to Moscow. Vladilen finished secondary school for working youth No. 77 in Stalin district of Moscow, then he studied in industrial school No. 40 to become a metal turner. He worked as a turner at the plant, then as a lab assistant in science classrooms of the school for working youth and taught physics to militiamen.

Alma mater V.Minin graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. His graduate work was devoted to the research of a high-voltage electric discharge in liquid. V.S. Komelkov (one of the chief of the Department of Atomic Energy Institute) who refereed his theses and later offered him the work in his department.

Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences In 1958, at the invitation of Mikhail Lavrentyev, Minin moved to Novosibirsk Akademgorodok (scientific centre) to work at Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He initiated some new research directions : electromagnetic throwing of the body, shock waves interaction with bubbles in water with air layers, anomalous properties of nitrogen plasma, explosive sound sources, explosion plume, etc. At that time the research in these fields was not being conducted in any other laboratory of the Institute of Hydrodynamics. He discovered the effect of the cumulative jet formation when a gas bubble collapses under the action of a shock wave and proposed a method for dissolving gases in a liquid based on this effect. In 2005 professor Christopher Earls Brennen published his monograph «Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics» where special focus was given to the research of shock waves interaction with gas bubbles in water and experimental discovery of cumulative jet formation effect in case of bubble collapse conducted by Minin. Minin initiated a new direction for the research, i.e. experimental study of solitary wave propagation features in the shallows as applied to tsunami. In 1959 (by the order of Lavrentyev) Minin was appointed the chief engineer to be responsible for the construction and provision of scientific instruments made in his laboratory not only for the Institute of Hydrodynamics, but also for other institutes to-be-built for the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1961 Minin passed his defense for a degree of a candidate of technical sciences. In his theses he offered to apply explosion for low-soluble gas dilution in water. In 1963 Minin was conferred a degree of a senior research assistant in chemical physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In 1963-1964 he started working on branch-oriented optoelectronic systems.

At the same period he delivered lectures to his first students at the preliminary courses of Novosibirsk State University. Later he was invited by Vice-rector Rem Soloukhin to take part in establishing demonstration hall for the Department of General Physics and practical physics. Over 100 demonstration scenarios for a course in physics were made by Minin. In 1959-1969 he worked as an associate professor at the Department of General Physics.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Vladilen Minin

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Vladilen Minin ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Vladilen Minin

In research: Vladilen Minin appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Vladilen Minin in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Vladilen Minin is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1932 births, 20th-century Russian physicists, 21st-century Russian physicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Vladilen Minin outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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