RFBR grant for teams of young scientist

The special grant for research conducted by leading teams of young (under 35 y.o.) scientists is recieved: "Fracture of rocks by electropulse loads" (RFBR research grant nr. 12-01-33049). The team of the project is presented by young scientists from Vladivostok (Nicholay Lutsenko, Taisia Miroshnichenko, Leonid Nadkrinichny), Moscow (Danila Prikazchikov, team leader) and St.- Petersburg (Victor Katz, Anton Lukin, Vladimir Bratov, Ivan Smirnov). The aim of the project is a pilot study and modeling of pulsed electrical breakdown at the interface between liquid and solid media.