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Dr. Arkadii I. Leonov

Professor of Polymer Engineering

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Education

• 1969 Ph. D., Mathematical Physics, Karpov's Physical Chemistry Research Institute, Moscow
• 1962 Ph. D., Theoretical Mechanics, Institute of Problems in Mechanics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• 1961 M.C., Mathematics, Moscow State Unviersity
• 1957 M.S., Chemical Engineering, Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests

Thermodynamic modeling, mathematical analysis and basic experiments for polymer melts, filled polymers and disperse systems; theoretical/numerical analysis of complex viscoelastic flows; analysis of instabilities and melt fracture phenomena; chemorheology and chemoprocessing of polymers and their filled compositions; theoretical/experimental studies of nematic LC, LCP, LC elastomers, and clay-nanoparticle polymer suspensions; theory of translation/rotation Brownian motion of particles in viscoelastic fluids and dilute polymer solutions; thermodynamic modeling of polymer solids: hybrid models, nonlinear viscoelasticity, necking and crazing; variational analysis of nonlinear boundary problems for inelastic media.

Employment

• Professor - Institute of Polymer Engineering and Department of Polymer Engineering, the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, August 1988 to present
• Professor, Chairman - Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Kemerovo Institute of Technology, Kemerovo, USSR, 1984 -1987
• Professor - Department of Polymer Engineering, Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering, Moscow, USSR, 1974- 1984
• Senior Research Fellow, Head - Rheology Group, Institute of Problems in Mechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR, 1965 -1982
• Research Associate - Rheology Lab., Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1962 -1965
• Doctoral Candidate - Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering, Moscow, USSR, 1959-1962
• Senior Engineer, Head - Department of Computations in Mechanics, Moscow Synthetic Rubber Plant, Moscow, USSR, 1957 -1959

Visiting Positions

• Visiting Scientist - Materials Division, NASA Glenn, Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 31 - May 31, 2001
• Visiting Scientist - Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Studies, Cambridge, U.K., January, 1996
• Visiting Scientist - Institut de Mechanique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, June - July, 1990
• Visiting Scientist - The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Research Division, Akron, Ohio, June-August, 1989
• Visiting Scientist - Dept. of Polymer Sci. and Polymer Technology, IBM Almaden Research, San Jose, CA, May - August, 1988
• Visiting Scholar - Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Jan-May, 1988

Awards and Honors

• Honorary Member of British Society of Rheology
• Vinogradov's Society of Rheology Award, 2001

Reviewing (Personal and Proposals)

• NSF
• ASME
• NY Acad. Sci.

Journal Reviewing

• Journal of Rheology
• Rheological Acta
• Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
• Macromolecules
• Journal of Applied Polymer Science
• Polymer Engineering and Science
• International Polymer Processing
• Rubber Chemistry and Technology
• International Journal of Engineering Science
• Journal of Engineering Mathematics
• Fluid Dynamics Research
• Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials
• International Journal of Solids and Structures
• Ind. J. of Pure and Appl. Math.

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