Research Expertise

•	Hydrodynamic stability
•	Laminar-turbulent transition
•	Turbulent shear flows
•	Turbulent large-scale organized motion modeling
•	Magneto hydrodynamics
•	Plasma stability
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Education

•	Ph.D.	:	Fluid, Gas, and Plasma Mechanics, Institute of Thermophysics, Academy of Sciences, USSR, 1975
•	Graduated	:	Physics and Applied Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia, 1972
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Courses Taught  (since 2001)

•	AME 300	:	Instrumentation Laboratory
•	AME 302	:	Numerical Methods
•	AME 331	:	Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
•	ENGR 102	:	Introduction to Engineering
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Employment

•	1993-date	:	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Research Associate (1993-01); Adjunct Associate Professor (2002-date)
•	1985-93	:	Laboratory of the Stratified Media Thermohydrodynamics, Institute of Thermophysics, Academy of Sciences, USSR: Senior Research Scientist
•	1972-85	:	Laboratory of Modeling, Institute of Thermophysics, Academy of Sciences, USSR: Research Scientist (1979-85); Junior Research Scientist (1975-79); Special Student Researcher (1972-75)
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Honors and Awards

•	Title of Senior Research Scientist, Higher Certifying Commission of Russia, 1993
•	Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 1993
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Professional Societies

•	AIAA	:	The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
•	APS	:	The American Physical Society
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Publications  (since 2001)

•	Likhachev, O. A. and Jacobs, J. W. , A Vortex Model for Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Accounting for Finite Atwood Number, Phys. Fluids 17, Paper 031704, 2005.
•	Likhachev, O., Equilibrium State of Trailing Vortices: Two-Dimensional Model of a Far-Field Vortex Wake, Aerospace Sci. Technol. 5:329-338, 2001.
•	Likhachev, O., On Preferred Perturbations Selected by Centrifugal Instability, J. Fluids Eng. 123:702-705, 2001.
•	Likhachev, O., Neuendorf, R., and Wygnanski, I., On Streamwise Vortices in a Turbulent Wall Jet that Flows Over a Convex Surface, Phys. Fluids 13:1822-1825, 2001.
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Research Grants  (since 2001)

•	The Effect of Curvature on the Evolution of a Boundary Layer Subjected to a Strong Adverse Pressure Gradient and Utilization of this Effect for Control of Separation, ONR, 6/14/99-6/14/01 (with I. Wygnanski).
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