Dr. Svetlana Sushchikh

  

Email: sveta@engineering.ucsb.edu

  Telephone: (805) 893 4939

Education

• St.Petersburg Technical University , St.Petersburg, (Russia),Ph.D. (2001).
• St.Petersburg Polytechnic Institute , St.Petersburg, (Russia), M.S. (1990).

Professional Appointments

• University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA, Specialist (2004-now).
• University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA, Research Fellow (2002-2004).
• St.Petersburg Phisical-Thechnical Institute , St.Petersburg, (Russia), Junior Researcher (1990-2001).

Research Interests

Numerical and analytical studies of interfacial instability and transition to turbulence.

Resent Selected Publications

1. Theofanous, T., Sushchikh, S., Wiri, S., Nourgaliev, R.,
"Linear Stability of Sheared, Diffuse Interfaces: Revisiting the Yih-mode ",
The 6th International Conference on Multiphase Flows , ICMF'07, July 9-13, 2007, Leipzig, Germany.

2.Theofanous, T., Sushchikh, S.,Nourgaliev, R.,
"Linear Stability of Sharp and Diffuse Interfaces Under Shear ",The 4th Joint ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering Summer Conference,
The 10th International Symposium of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows , July 30-August 2, 2007, San Diego, CA, USA.

3. Nourgaliev, R.R., Sushchikh, S.Y.,Dihn, T.S., Theofanous, T.G. “Shock Wave Refraction
Patterns at Interfaces,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 31, 969 - 995, 2005.