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

 T1: 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.

 T2: Signal conditioning and conversion: Miniaturization, lowest power consumption

                 Mathematical modelling of miniaturized instruments and sensors.

 T4: 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 4^th 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.