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Dr.
John A. Ekaterinaris
Foundation for Research And Technology
Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics
PO Box 1527
711 10 Heraklion
Crete
Greece
TEL: +30 810 391773
FAX: +30 810 391761
Mobile: 097 2028751
ekaterin@iacm.forth.gr
Foundation
for Research and Technology – Institute of Applied and Computational
Mathematics (FORTH-IACM),
Numerical
Analysis and Scientific Computing (NASC) group
The
Foundation for Research and
Technology-Hellas (FORTH) is a research center consisting of seven research
Institutes in four cities of Greece. Four of the Institutes and the central
administration of the Center are located in Heraklion on the island of Crete.
FORTH is considered to be a Center of Excellence involved in advanced research
in biology, applied mathematics, applied physics, computer science, chemistry,
and chemical engineering. More than half of FORTH’s budget comes from
competitive research grants from international organisations, such as the
agencies of the EU and other public and private organisations.
The
Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM) is one of the
Institutes of FORTH located in Heraklion, Crete. It was founded in 1985 and its
Director is Prof. J. S. Papadakis. Research carried out at IACM focuses on
problems of; (1) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and high-order accurate
algorithms for the incompressible and compressible Navier-Stokes equations (with
application to large eddy simulations (LES) and aeoacoustic problems), (2) wave
propagation (with emphasis on underwater acoustics), (3) analysis and numerical
solution of partial differential equations in various areas of science and
engineering, (4) problems of computational neuroscience, and (5) techniques of
regional analysis, remote sensing, and development of decision support tools.
The
Numerical Analysis and Scientific
Computing (NASC) Group is
one of the five main groups of IACM. Its main interests are the development of
new techniques and software for computational fluid dynamics and computational
wave propagation. The applications of interest include compressible turbulence,
environmental and physiological flows, wind turbine flows, unsteady
aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, underwater and atmospheric sound propagation,
non-linear wave phenomena, and conservation laws. The researchers of the group
have considerable expertise in finite element and finite
difference/finite
volume
methods, numerical linear algebra, HPCN and parallel processing, and use of
interfacing with GIS. Computing facilities of the group include three
eight-processor PC clusters, two SGI Indigo2 workstations and three Origin2000
Tower Systems with multiple processors, all connected in a fast Ethernet
network. The group participates in projects funded by EU and the General
Secretariat of Research and Technology, Greece. Recent grants of the group
include:
·
SIMO, An
Information System for the Numerical Simulation and Forecasting of Floods, Greek-French
Bilateral Collaboration, 2000-01.
·
KNOW-BLADE,
Wind Turbine Blade Aerodynamics and Aeroelastics : Closing Knowledge Gaps,
EU EESD-1999, 2001- 04.
The
NASC group is also involved in educational activity, as its members supervise
several MSc and PhD theses. The NASC group personnel include three researchers,
five graduate students, one postgraduate fellow, one computer analyst, and
several collaborating researchers.
Our
group can contribute in the following tasks
MS:
Microsystems
and wireless sensors.
Design
and implementation of MEMS medical devices. Fluid dynamics analysis of wireless
sensors in the blood stream and vital organs, such as heart valves, coronary
arteries and diseased parts of arteries, would be important for the design of
new sensors.
PD:
Signal
conditioning and conversion: Miniaturization, lowest power consumption
Mathematical
modelling of miniaturized instruments and sensors.
SP:
Signal
processing, classification, recognition and evaluation.
Our
expertise of signal processing in experimental fluid dynamics will be valuable
in the proposed research.
The
NoE could participate two researchers from NASC group of FORTH-IACM. Dr. John
Ekaterinaris and Dr. Nikolaos Kampanis
John
A. Ekaterinaris is
Research Director at FORTH-IACM. Dr. Ekaterinaris received his Ph.D. from
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA (1987). He worked at NASA-Ames
Research Center in California between 1988-1995, between 1995-1997 was visiting
scientist at Risoe National Laboratory in Denmark, and between 1997-2000 at
Nielsen Engineering and Research in California. He joined IACM in October 2000.
He participates in several scientific and professional committees in Europe and
the US. His research areas are developments in Computational Fluid Dynamics,
MEMS, theoretical and experimental Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics, flow control,
turbulence and transition. He participated in funded projects in the US and the
EU. He has over thirty Journal publications.
Nikolaos
A. Kampanis
is Associate Researcher at FORTH-IACM. He received his PhD in Numerical Analysis
(1992), from University of Crete. His research area is on computational wave
propagation (underwater and atmospheric sound propagation) and computational
fluid dynamics (incompressible flows). He is member of the ERCIM Environmental
Modeling Group, organized the 4th Workshop of the group, and is guest
editor of the special issue on Environmental Models and Numerical Methods of the
Journal of System Analysis Modelling Simulation (Vol. 39, 2000). He participates
in EU and national research projects. He has several publications in refereed
journals and conference proceedings.
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