Valery Ya Rudyak
Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia
Biography
Valery Ya Rudyak has graduated from Physical Faculty (Molecular Physics Department) of the Novosibirsk University. He completed his PhD dissertation in Kinetic Theory Of Gases. In 1990, he defended the Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics dissertation. He is Honored Science Worker of Russian Federation. He is Head of Theoretical Mechanics department of the Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, simultaneously he is Main Research Scientist of the Siberian Federal University. His main field of expertise includes the following subjects: nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, kinetic theory of gases, rarefied gas dynamics, physics and mechanics of transport processes, transport processes in nanofluids, flows in microchannels, multi-phases fluids, laminar-turbulent transition, CFD and molecular dynamics simulation. He is author of 6 monographs and more than 200 scientific papers. The main subjects of his research are the nanofluids transport properties and modelling micro- and nanoflows.