Professor Rouslan Krechetnikov
Rouslan Krechetnikov, Ph.D. is
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Rouslan earned
his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics at the Moscow Institute of
Physics and Technology (Phystech) in 2004. Before joining UCSB he spent
a year (2007–2008) as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics
(tenure-track) at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) and a
year (2006–2007) at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) in the same
capacity. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
California Institute of Technology (2004–2006) and at UCSB (2002–2004).
His research interests include experimental and theoretical fluid
mechanics
at all scales (aerodynamics, geophysics, micro-hydrodynamics, and
physics of complex interfaces), as well as analytical mechanics and
applied mathematics, in general.
Rouslan’s papers include
Dissipation-induced instabilities in finite dimensions,
Dissipation-induced instability phenomena in infinite-dimensional
systems,
On the origin and nature of finite-amplitude instabilities in
physical
systems,
Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities of
flat and curved
interfaces,
Structure of Marangoni-driven singularities,
Stability of liquid sheet edges, and
Walking with coffee: why does it spill?
His recent awards include
- Ig Nobel Prize (2012)
- DARPA Young Faculty Award (2011)
- NSF CAREER Award (2011)
- Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship (2011)
- Hellman Family Faculty Award (2010)
- UCSB Academic Senate Award (2010)