Research areas
Major research areas
Fundamental and applied scientific researches conducted in Samara University including R&D correspond with priority area for science and technology development.
Principal directions for academic activity development:
- Aerospace engineering, materials and technologies
- Propulsion engineering, dynamics and vibroacoustics of machines
- Informatics and photonics
- Fundamental researches for advanced technologies
Research directions:
- Aerodynamics, flight dynamics, aeronautical and spacecraft design engineering and manufacturing technology
- Aircraft structure, on-board systems and equipment
- Theoretical and experimental researches for aircraft engines
- Simulation and design engineering in propulsion engineering
- Combustion engines
- Propulsion engineering special materials
- Manufacturing technology, systems, components and accessories of engines
- Manufacturing technology of machine parts and components, anorganic catalysts
- Laser processing technologies. Electronic ion plasma technologies
- Pressing, sintering and blanking of powder material products
- Surface treatment with plastic deformation
- Mathematical and cybernetic methods in mechanical engineering
- Noise control, vibration protection, electric and magnetic fields and radiations protection
- Complex and specialist subdisciplines of mechanics
- Electronic facility components, parts and items
- Nanotechnologies
- Treatment tools and instrumentation systems
- Bioelectronic and mechanical systems of human organs and tissues stimulation
- Image processing and computer-based optics
- CAD systems
- Computer networks, telecommunications systems, information systems
- Mathematics and mathematical models in technological, economic and information processes
- Material-radiation interaction
- Synergies between composition, structure and properties of chemical compounds
- Environment preservation and natural resources discovering in Middle Volga
- Biology systems activity and mechanisms of their control
- History of the Volga region through the ages; modern and contemporary history of Western European countries and USA; Russian peasant studies; methodology, historiography, source study and history of Russia in the period from the 20th to the 21st century.
- Problems of legal regulation of social interactions
- Meaningfulness of artistic forms in literature
- Systemacity and functioning of linguistic units of different levels
- Control of processes of social and economic and intellectual development of the society and of a person
- Problems of person-centered approach to education and training
- Philosophy of culture, study of human cultural activity grounds, study of creativity of culture