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V. M. Dorofeyev, Docent, Head of Chair 
V. M. Golovin 
I. A. Ivashchenko, Docent, Dean 
Ya. M. Kogan 
L. I. Kudryashev 
V. Ya. Levina, Docent, Chief of Scientific-Research Sector 
S. M. Makarov 
A. P. Merkulov, Docent 
V. I. Metenin 
A. S. Natalevich 
N. N. Ogorodnikov 
N. I. Reznikov 
M. D. Rudman 
M. I. Shibanov, Professor, Head of Chair 
M. F. Shirokov 
A. M. Soyfer 
N. M. Starobinskiy, Docent, Head of Chair 
I. G Starostin, Candidate, Dean 
F. P. Uryvskiy, Docent, Party Secretary 
Description: 
The Institute's research work is centered around various phases of 
aircraft technology. Papers of the Institute have also covered several 
phases of aviation economics, such as training engineers to think in terms of 
economics, analysis of costs of manufacturing in a factory, and planning and 
modernization of plants. 
In the field of mathematics, gas dynamics, and thermodynamics, work 
has been done on boundary-layer theory, jet flow around bodies, laminar flow 
of viscous fluids between flat and parallel walls and tubes of circular 
cross section, heat conduction, heat-transfer problems, refrigeration systems, 
and cooling effects on heat-resistant alloys in liquid and gaseous media. 
In the field of aircraft structures, work includes over-all aircraft 
structural design, study of the stability of high-speed aircraft, investiga- 
tions of blade and component vibration and damping, thin-wall spar design, 
wing studies at subsonic flow, and oscillation studies of thin-wall shells. 
In the field of aircraft-engine technology, both gas-turbine and 
internal-combustion engines have been studied. Some of this work considered 
the thermodynamics of piston engines, flow through nozzles, influence of 
nozzle construction, reliability of aircraft gas turbines, and aircraft- 
engine design and maintenance. 
The metallurgical work of the Institute covers transformations in 
tempering and annealing, sintered alloys of the Fe-Si system, powders in 
metal-powder rolling, rolling compact bonds of nickel powder, microhardness 
of gray iron, effect of cold work on heat-resistant alloys, dimensional 
accuracy of castings and forgings, molten-salt electrolytes, and gas corrosicn 
of molybdenum. Work also has been done on determining drawing coefficients 
and rough forming with rubber dies at high pressures. 
