Vitaly Kuzkin

Vitaly A. Kuzkin

Deputy Head of Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics for research affairs Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (former Faculty of Physics and Mechanics) Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU). Senior researcher Laboratory for Discrete Models in Mechanics (DMML) Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering Russian Academy of Sciences (IPME RAS).

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 and Applied Mechanics, 2011

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

Employment

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

Professional appointments

• visiting researcher, Aberdeen University (Prof. A. Politi), UK, 2017
• opponent at PhD defense, Lund University, Department of Mechanics, Sweden, 2016
• visiting researcher, Rzeszow University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Applied Physics, Poland, 2012-2014
• visiting researcher, Ruby Valley Research Institute (Prof. William G. Hoover), USA, 2013
• visiting researcher, Technical Unversity of Hamburg-Harburg, Institute of Solids Process Engineering and Particle Technology, Germany, 2011
• visiting student, Brown University, Group of Prof. Huajian Gao, USA, 2007

Participation in projects

• Enhancing hydraulic fracturing on the basis of numerical simulation of coupled geomechanical, hydrodynamic and microseismic processes (HYDROFRAC)
• Hamburg project
• Project "AlpineReplay" (see also [1])
• Project "Crystal"
• Simulation of bio-materials consisting of fibrils

Research areas/interests

• Mechanics of Discrete Media
• Computational Mechanics of Discrete Media : Molecular Dynamics, Discrete Element Method
• Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics / Smoothed Particles Applied Mechanics
• Computational geomechanics (hydraulic fracturing, proppant transport)
• Rheology of suspensions
• Thermal effects: equations of state, heat conductivity, negative thermal expansion
• Equivalent thermomechanical characteristics for discrete systems (stress tensor, heat flux)
• Potentials for interaction between rigid bodies: potential for graphene
• DEM simulation of discrete/granullar rods, shells, and bulk solids ( V-model for bonds in solids)
• Simulation of carbon nanostructures
• mechanics of active sports, inertial navigation, Fuzzy logic
• ...

Publications and patents

• Profile at Google Scholar.

• Profile at Scopus

• Profile at ResearchGate

• Selected publications can be downloaded here....

Journal reviewer

• Acta Mechanica
• Applied Mathematical Modeling
• Computers & Fluids
• Granular Matter
• Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
• International Journal of Engineering Science
• International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
• Computational Methods in Science and Technology
• Computational Materials Science

Teaching

• Particle Dynamics (lectures)
• Theoretical Mechanics (practice)
• Rigid Body Dynamics (practice)

Software

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

Some awards

• British Petroleum research grant for young scientists, 2012
• 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

Conferences

• 5th International Conference Auxetics and other materials and models with "negative" characteristics, Poznan, Poland, 2014
• Recent Advances in Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture, Rzeszow, Poland, 14-16 July 2014.
• Advances in Micromechanics of Materials, Rzeszów, Poland, 8-11 July 2014.
• Advanced Problems in Mechanics, St.Petersburg, Repino, June 30-July 6, 2014.
• Advanced Problems in Mechanics, St.Petersburg, Repino, 2013.
• Advanced Problems in Mechanics, St.Petersburg, Repino, 2012.
• Advanced Problems in Mechanics, St.Petersburg, Repino, 2011.
• Advanced Problems in Mechanics, St.Petersburg, Repino, 2010.
• Joint US-Russia Conference "Advances in Material Science", Prague, Chzech Republic, 2009.
• Workshop on Advanced Computer Simulation Methods for Junior Scientists, St.Petersburg, 27-29 April, 2009.
• IUTAM Simposium on Vibration of structures with uncertainities, Saint Petersburg, 2009
• Workshop on Molecular Dynamics, Warwick, UK, 2009
• The Sixth International conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Greece, Athens, 2008

The best quotes about Science

• Physics is like making love: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. (c) Richard P. Feynman
• The Scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. (c) Henri Poincare.
• The science is no fun, if you are never wrong! (c) Thomas Gold
• The science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life (с) G.H. Hardy (see also G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology. Cambridge: University Press. pp. 153, 2004)
• No pain <=> No gain

Hobbies

• My source of inspiration (see photo)

Muse

• Sport
• Traveling

Contacts

E-mail: kuzkinva[math]@[/math]gmail.com, kuzkin[math]@[/math]spbstu.ru

Phone: +7-981-707-87-02

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

Web: tm.spbstu.ru/Kuzkin, mech.spbstu.ru/Vitaly_Kuzkin