Seventy Years of Compressible-Flow Physics at Moscow University: A Scientific Retrospective on the Research of Professor Fedor Vasilievich Shugaev

This article reviews the research of Fedor Vasilievich Shugaev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Professor at the Faculty of Physics of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Over a career at MSU spanning more than six decades, Professor Shugaev has published 146 journal articles, 4 monographs, 46 conference papers and 83 invited talks, and supervised twelve Candidate-of-Sciences dissertations and twenty diploma theses. The main research lines covered below are the propagation and reflection of shock waves; shock-wave interaction with vortices, acoustic disturbances and turbulent fluctuations; shock-wave dynamics in low-temperature and discharge plasmas; the geometry and stability of magnetised and astrophysical bow shocks; Navier–Stokes-based methods for vortex acoustics; laser-beam propagation through the turbulent atmosphere; and a recent cycle of work in theoretical astrophysics.