Vladimir Petrovich Wettschinkin

Vladimir Petrovich Wettschinkin ( Russian Владимир Петрович Ветчинкин ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Petrovich Vetčinkin ; born 17 ^jul. / 29. June  1888 ^greg. In Kutno , † 6. March 1950 in Moscow ) was a Soviet aerodynamics.

Life

As a student he was a student of Zhukovsky . Both worked together in 1913 at the Moscow Technical University on the theory of the propeller . Wettschinkin finished his studies in 1915 and became a university professor at the TH. In 1918 he was one of the co-founders of the ZAGI . In 1927 he was promoted to a doctorate in technical sciences and in 1943 received the state prize . As a professor, he taught at his old university as well as at the Ordzhonikidze Institute and the Zhukovsky Academy .

Wettschinkin particularly distinguished himself as an applied mathematician. He calculated and solved problems of the strength of aircraft structures, especially propellers and airframes. Due to his work, the limits of the load multiples of aircraft could be calculated in advance and thus be incorporated directly into the design.

His main publications were dynamics of flight in 1927 and dynamics of aircraft in 1933 . In addition, he published in other areas, such as navigation , ballistics and about jet aircraft . From 1956 to 1959 his collected works appeared in a Moscow publishing house in two volumes in Russian.

Wettschinkin was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. A moon crater is named after him.

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 .
• G. Swishchev et al. a .: Avijazija: enziklopedija . In: Bolschaja rossijskaja enziklopedija . Moscow 1994, p. 135 . (Russian)