Vitaly Kuzkin

V.A. Kuzkin, APM 2008

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Education

• BSc, SPbSTU, FMF, dept. Mechanics and Control Processes, 2007 (with honors)

Bachelor thesis: Equations of state for perfect crystals. Scientific advisor: prof. А.М. Krivtsov

• MSc, SPbSTU, FMF, dept. Mechanics and Control Processes, 2009 (with honors)

Master thesis: Thermomechanical effects in perfect crystals. Scientific advisor: prof. А.М. Krivtsov

• PhD, SPbSTU, FMF, department for Theoretical Mechanics, 2011

PhD thesis : Derivation of equivalent thermomechanical characteristics for perfect crystals. Scientific advisor: prof. А.М. Krivtsov

Employment

• Vice Head of Department for Theoretical Mechanics (since 2011)
• PhD student, Department for Theoretical Mechanics (2011-2011)
• teaching assistant, Department for Theoretical Mechanics (2008 – 2011)
• researcher, lab. "Discrete Models in Mechanics", (IPME RAS) (since 2006)

Participation in projects

• Hamburg project
• Modeling of hydraulic fracturing
• Project "Cassiopeia"
• Project "Crystal"
• Simulation of bio-materials consisting of fibrils

Research areas/interests

• computational discrete mechanics: Molecular Dynamics, Discrete Element Method
• Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics / Smoothed Particles Applied Mechanics
• thermal effects: equations of state, heat conductivity, thermal expansion
• equivalent thermomechanical characteristics for discrete systems
• interactions between rigid bodies: potential for graphene, DEM simulation of solids (V-model)
• discrete models of rods and shells
• carbon nanostructures
• inertial navigation, Fuzzy logic
• ...

Publications and patents

• in per reviewed journals – 7, total – 26
• 2 US patents (under review)

Selected publications are listed here.

Teaching

• Dynamics of particles (lectures)
• theoretical mechanics (practice)
• dynamics of rigid body (practice)

Software

• CAD/CAE, DEM Software: Solid Works, ANSYS, LS DYNA, EDEM
• Math Software: Maple, MathCad, MATLAB
• PC languages: Pascal, C++

Some awards

• Young Scientist Award on IUTAM Symposium on "Vibration Analysis of Structures with Uncertainties", 2009
• Award for the Best Presentation on the first conference of OAO "KBSM", 2009
• Award of "Dynasty" foundation for Young Physicists, 2009
• Award for Best Young Scientist of Polytechnical university, 2008
• Award for Best Presentation on All-Russia young researchers School-Conference "Mathematical Modelling in natural sciences", Perm, Russia, 2007
• Award for Scientific Progress on "XXXV Science week" in SPbSTU, 2006
• Awards in 1-st(university), 2-nd(regional), 3-rd(All-Russia) tours of Olimpiad on Strength of Materials, 2005

Contacts

E-mail: kuzkinva at gmail.com

Phone: +7-906-2522554

Fax: +7-812-3214771

Skype: vitaly.kuzkin, vitaly.kuzkin1

Vk.com: kuzkinva

Mail: Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering RAS, 199178, Russia, St. Petersburg, Bolshoy pr. V.O., 61