Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (born July 10, 1927) is a Russian mathematician. He graduated in 1950 from University of Moscow, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from University of Moscow under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov. He also received a D.Sc. from University of Moscow in 1957. He is a Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994 and he has been Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics since then. Jump to: navigation, search July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Moscow State University campus M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Московский Государственный Университет имени М.В.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is considered the oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров) (kahl-mah-GAW-raff) (April 25, 1903 in Tambov - October 20, 1987 in Moscow) was a Russian mathematician who made major advances in the fields of probability theory and topology. ... Moscow State University campus M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Московский Государственный Университет имени М.В.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is considered the oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... Jump to: navigation, search University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... The Berkeley Lab is perched on a hill overlooking the Berkeley central campus and San Francisco Bay. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (7 March 1886 - 27 June 1975) was a physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. ... Fluid mechanics is the subdiscipline of continuum mechanics that studies fluids, that is, liquids and gases. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ...

His areas of research are:

1. 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 in the Quarterly Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. In materials science fracture mechanics applies the physics of stress and strain, in particular the theories of elasticity and plasticity, to the microscopic crystallographic defects found in real materials in order to predict the macroscopic mechanical failure of bodies. ... A subset of the phases of matter, fluids include liquids, gases, plasmas and, to some extent, plastic solids. ... A gas is one of the phases of matter. ... The word flow has several different meanings: In fluid mechanics, the word flow is often used to mean a complete description of the motion of a fluid. ... Used in geology, building science and hydrogeology, the porosity of a rock or sediment is the proportion of the non-solid volume to the total volume of material, and is defined by the ratio: where Vp is the non-solid volume (pores and liquid) and Vm is the total volume... Mechanics refers to: a craft relating to machinery (from the Latin mechanicus, from the Greek mechanikos, meaning one skilled in machines), or a range of disciplines in science and engineering. ... In jewelry, a solid gold piece is the alternative to gold-filled or gold-plated jewelry. ... Turbulent flow around an obstacle; the flow further away is laminar Laminar and turbulent water flow over the hull of a submarine Turbulence in the tip vortex from an airplane wing In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection... A self-similar object is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself. ...

His awards and honors include:

1. 1975 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2. 1984 Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics
3. 1988 Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics
4. 1989 Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
5. 1992 Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
6. 1993 Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
7. 1993 Member, Academia Europaea
8. 1994 Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary Fellow)
9. 1995 Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazzionale dei Lincei
10. 1995 Modesto Panetti Prize and Medal
11. 1997 Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
12. 1999 G. I. Taylor Medal, U.S. Society of Engineering Science
13. 1999 J. C. Maxwell Medal and Prize, International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
14. 2000 Foreign Member, Royal Society of London