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F.I. Frankl (1905–1961). Biographic Features and Contributions to Transonic Aerodynamics A. N. Bogdanov |
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Abstract: “Felix Isidorovich Frankl is one of the outstanding Soviet mechanicians and mathematicians. His works are widely known in our country and abroad. A versatile scientist, F. I. Frankl made major contributions to various fields of mathematics and mechanics, including topology and gas dynamics.” The life and scientific work of this man are striking in the abundance of events, the diversity of scientific problems that attracted his attention, and the depth of his results. As a volunteer scientific immigrant to the USSR, he astonishingly quickly, within a decade, entered the Soviet scientific elite. Having begun collaborating with Soviet scientific organizations in 1929, two years later F. I. Frankl was already working at the USSR's leading scientific institution in the field of aviation, TsAGI, where he rose from engineer to group leader. In 1934, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences, and in 1938, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (both without defending dissertations) [1]. Published by F. I. Frankl's works [2] show that his interests included plane, axisymmetric, and spatial steady-state and one-dimensional unsteady ideal gas flows, unsteady flow around bodies of revolution, boundary layers, hydraulic engineering and dynamic meteorology, and relativistic gas flows. F. I. Frankl's fundamental contributions to the theory of transonic gas flows, beginning from its early stages, allow him to be counted among the founders of this branch of gas dynamics. Alas, the scientist's untimely death interrupted his fruitful work, and oblivion gradually encroached. Thus it happened that, on the 100th anniversary of Felix Isidorovich Frankl's birth, the then leading Russian journal in the field of mechanics, Uspekhi Mekhaniki, merely reprinted [3] L. G. Loitsyansky's 1973 article [4]. Although Frankl's close acquaintances, his fellow specialists, and his students were still alive. References
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