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My research serves engineering science. It aims
- based on first principles - at the investigation
of causes and the illumination of mechanisms pertaining to systems
and processes of engineering interest, thus enabling the determination,
prediction and modification of their behaviour. Teaching
is in the same spirit and so is the education of
the young research collaborators.
My general research area is Computational Transport Phenomena,
and mainly Fluid Mechanics, dealing with simultaneous
reaction and transport, in transient or steady state, and often
in three-dimensional, complicated geometry. The focus is on the
effects of viscous and gravitational forces as well as of interfacial
and electromagnetic forces, in flow and transport. Among the significant
issues related to the effects of the forces, force competition
is of primary concern. The realistic and reliable
analysis of the problems demand large-scale scientific computing,
encompassing state-of-the art methods for discretizing the pertinent
partial differential equations, and for the systematic and thorough
investigation of the structure of the solution space. The former
are based on the Galerkin/finite element method and hybrids; the
latter on numerical linear algebra methods which handle efficiently
large-scale problems and exploit parallelism in today’s powerful
computer architectures. The benefit of interdisciplinarity
is utilized in targeting the problems, addressing the important
issues and employing the solution methods.
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