Galina Levina

 

LANGUAGES:

 

Russian - native,

English - fluent,

French - adequate.

 

FIELDS OF RESEARCH:

 

Fluid Mechanics
Geophysical Fluid Mechanics
Computational Fluid Mechanics

  • hydrodynamic stability and turbulence
  • thermal convection
  • geophysical flows (tropical cyclones, coherent structures in the atmospheric boundary layer)
  • nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation
  • numerical and experimental studies of laminar and turbulent convection
  • biophysical flows
  • non-Newtonian fluid flows.

 

EDUCATION:

 

1983

PhD

Institute for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia (USSR).

Physics and Mathematics. Dissertation Title: Selected Flows in Channels with Wavily Moving Boundaries.

 

 

 

1971

MSc

Perm State Pedagogical University, Perm, Russia (USSR).

Physics and Mathematics. Thesis Title: Onset of Convection in a Horizontal Layer of Porous Medium.

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

                                                    

     2010                   Visiting Research Scientist at the Department of Meteorology, 

   April – June;              Montgomery Research Group,   http://met.nps.edu/~mtmontgo/

                                              Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA.

         August-September;        Participant of the field experiment NSF-PREDICT (Pre-Depression

                                              Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics), Saint-Croix Island,

                                              U.S. Virgin Islands,  http://met.nps.edu/~mtmontgo/predict.html

 

    2009                     Visiting Research Scientist at the Department of Meteorology, 

   May - June;               Montgomery Research Group,   http://met.nps.edu/~mtmontgo/

   Oct. - Nov.                Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA.

 

 1999-Present

Senior Research Scientist at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

 

 

 1994-2010

Lecturer at the Perm State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Perm, Russia.

 

 

 1984-1985

Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Fluid Mechanics, Institute for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia (USSR)

 

 

1975-Present

Laboratory of Hydrodynamics, Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm, Russia:

1989-Present

Senior Research  Scientist

     1988-1989

Research  Scientist

     1980-1988

Junior Research Scientist

     1975-1980

Research Engineer

 

 

1971-1975

Application Programmer, Institute for Control Systems, Information Technology and Search Systems, Perm, Russia (USSR).



RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

 

Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

 

 

2005-Present

Application of helicity concept for studying the tropical cyclone formation.

 

 

1999-2004

Theoretical and numerical investigations of the turbulent vortex dynamo based on helicity concept.

 

 

 

Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,

Perm, Russia (USSR).

 

 

2006-Present

Development of numerical approach to study the role of helicity in tropical cyclones by use of regional atmospheric modeling systems.

 

 

1998-2005

Theoretical, numerical and experimental modeling of vortex structures in rotating convectively unstable fluids with applications to intense atmospheric vortices.

 

 

1984-1997

Theoretical, numerical and experimental investigation of large-scale structure generation in turbulent convection in horizontal fluid layers with large aspect ratios, including the analysis of a mathematical model for the turbulent vortex dynamo.

 

1981-1984

Explored theoretically and numerically mixed convection flows in an infinite vertical fluid layer with boundaries subjected to wavy motion.

 

 

1981-1983

Explored theoretically autovibrational flow regimes induced by resonant external forces.

 

 

1981-1982

Developed a compatible pressure marching scheme and a finite difference code for thermo-convective flows in channels with deformable boundaries.

 

 

1980-1983

Developed a finite difference code and investigated numerically thermo-convective flows in channels with non-stationary deformable boundaries.

 

 

1977-1983

Developed a finite difference code and investigated numerically isothermal flows in channels with boundaries subjected to wavy motion, the so-called peristaltic flows.

 

 

1975-1977

Investigated non-Newtonian fluid flows in channels of complex geometry and developed a numerical code for fluid flows with a deformable free surface.

 

 

 

Institute for Control Systems, Information Technology and Search Systems, Perm, Russia (USSR).

 

 

1973-1975

Developed a finite difference code and determined numerically the onset of convection in two-dimensional square domain heated from below.

 

 

1971-1975

Developed numerical codes for information and search systems.

 

 

 

Perm State Pedagogical University, Perm, Russia (USSR).

 

 

1970-1971

Performed linear stability analysis of horizontal layer of porous medium heated from below.

 

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

Perm State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Perm, Russia (USSR).

 

 

1994-2010

Lecturer (Reader after 20/11/1996)
Courses developed and taught: Viscous Flows, Hydrodynamic Stability and Thermal Convection, Theory of Turbulence.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

  • Project Manager, "Magnetic Effects in Liquid Metal Flows", International Science and Technology Center. Moscow, Russia. October 2000-July 2006.
  • Scientific Secretary, International Symposium "Generation of Large-Scale Structures in Continuous Media. Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures". Perm-Moscow, USSR, June 11-20, 1990.
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, Winter Schools in Mechanics at the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm, Russia, 1989, 1991; International Symposium  "Perm Dynamo Days", Perm, Russia, February 7-11, 2005.

 

HONORS and AWARDS:

 

  • Selected for Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2008-2009

Who’s Who in the World, 2009

Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2011-2012

 See Marquis Who’s Who web site at: http://www.marquiswhoswho.com

  • Recipient of the Second Place Biennial Award and a cash prize for the Best Scientific Publication for a review "Hydrodynamic alpha-effect in a convective system", Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia, December, 2000
  • Merit Certificate for the Excellence in Research and in Celebration of the 275th Anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999.
  • Young Investigator Award from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR for a series of works "Selected Flows in Channels with Wavily Moving Boundaries", 1985.
  • Recipient of the Departmental Scholarship for Distinguished Students, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Perm State Pedagogical University, Perm, Russia (USSR), 1968-1971.

 

MEMBERSHIP:

  • American Meteorological Society

 

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