John Ekaterinaris

Biography

Professor Ekaterinaris obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 1977. He received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1983, and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in 1987, both at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

Professor Ekaterinaris has worked at NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA — through the Navy/NASA joint Institute of Aeronautics — since 1987, and at the same time was faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey.

He spent more than a year (1995-1997) at RISOE, Denmark's national laboratory (wind energy department), and then worked at Nielsen Engineering and Research (1997-2000). He returned to Greece, and he became professor at the school of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of Patras.

His interests are methodology development in computational mechanics, including aerodynamics, magnetogasdynamics, flow transition, turbulence research, flow structure interaction in aeronautics and biomechanics and multi-scale phenomena. 

He has been member of AIAA (where he served as a member of technical committees), and an AIAA associate fellow since 1995. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal Aerospace Science and
Technology, and associate editor of the Journal Progress in Aerospace Science.

Education

• Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
• M.S. - Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

Currently Teaching

• AE 308: Compressible Aerodynamics
• AE 652: Turbulent Flows

Publications

Recent journal publications

1.   Toulopoulos, I. and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin       Discretizations for Computational Aeroacoustics in Complex Domains,"
      AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 3, 2006, pp. 502-511.
2.   Papaharilaou, Y., Ekaterinaris, J.A., Manousaki, E., and, Katsamouris A.N.,      
      "Decoupled fluid structure approach for estimating wall stress in abdominal aortic       aneurysms," Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2007, pp.367-377.
3.   Arabatizis, G., Vavilis, P., Toulopoulos, I., and Ekaterinaris, J. A., "Implicit High-      Order Time-Marching Schemes for the Linearized Euler Equations," AIAA Journal,       Vol. 45, No. 8, August 2007, pp. 1819  1826.
4.   Georgakarakos, E., Ioannou, C. V., Volanis, S. Papaharilaou, Y., Ekaterinaris, J.A.,       and Katsamouris, A.N., "The Influence of Intraluminal Thrombus on Abdominal
      Aortic Aneurysm Wall Stress," International Angiology, 2009, Vol. 28,
      No. 4, pp. 325-33.
5.   Ekaterinaris, J.A., "Application of a High Order Numerical Method for MHD Control       of Shock Boundary Layer Interaction," AIAA Journal, Vol. 48, No.12, 2010,
      pp. 2781-2792.
6.   Kovanis, A.P., Skaperdas E., and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "Design and Analysis of a Light       Cargo UAV Prototype," Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2011.
7.   Toulopoulos, I. and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "Artifical Boundary Conditions for the        Numerical Solution of the Euler Equations with the DG Method," Journal of        Computational Physics, Vol. 230, No. 15, 2011, pp. 5974-5995
8.    Karantasis, K., Polychronopoulos, E., Panourgias, K., and Ekaterinaris, J.A.,
       "Accelerating the Simulation of Brain Tumor Proliferation with Many-core GPUs,"
       Journal of Computational Sciences (J. Comput. Sci. 2011, 1016/j.jocs.2011.06.005)
9.    Vavourakis, V, Papaharilaou, Y. and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "Coupled fluid-structure       
       interaction hemodynamics in a zero-pressure state corrected arterial geometry,"
       Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 44, No. 13, 2011, pp 2453-2460.
10.  Karantasis, K., Polychronopoulos, E., and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "Acceleration of a High        Order Accurate Method for Compressible Flows on SDSM based GPU Clusters,"
       Computers and Fluids, 2012.
11.  Kyrkos, A. and Ekaterinaris, J. A., "Assessment of an unstructured mesh approach for        CFD predictions of the NH90 fuselage rotor," GOAHEAD special issue, Aerospace        Science and Technology, 2012.
12.  Konztialis, K. and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "High order discontinuous Galerkin        discretizations with a new limiting approach and positivity preservation for strong        moving shocks," Computers and Fluids, 2012.
13.  Konztialis, K., Panourgias, K, and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "A p-adaptive limiting        approach for DG discretizations on mixed type meshes," Computer Methods in        Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2012.
14.  Vavourakis, V., Kazakidi, A., Tsakiris, D., and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "A non-linear        dynamic finite element analysis of skeletal muscles and muscular hydrostats,"        Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2012.
15.  Kazakidi, A., Vavourakis, V., Tsakiris, D., and Ekaterinaris, J.A., "Octopus arm        hydrodynamics," Journal of Experimental Biology, 2012.  

Professional Experience

WORK EXPERIENCE

1988 - 1995      Research Scientist, NASA/Ames Research Center, CA.
1990 - 1992      Assistant Research Professor, Naval Postgraduate School..
1992 - 1995      Associate Research Professor, Naval Postgraduate School.
1995 - 1997      Senior Research Scientist, RISOE National Laboratory, DK.
1997 - 2000      Senior Research Scientist, NIELSEN Engineering and Research,.
2000 - 2005      Research Director, Institute of Appl. and Computational Math. (IACM),
                          Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
                          (FORTH), Crete, Greece, collaborating professor with FORTH/IACM.
2005 - 2012      Professor School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 
                          University of Patras, Greece.

Engaged in research and education in the fields of aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, computational mechanics applied and computational mathematics.  Taught undergraduate and graduate in the fields of Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Numerical Methods, Numerical Combustion, and Flight Mechanics
Research areas included : 
 (i)     Development and application of CFD methods,
(ii)     design and development of high order accurate methods for 
          structured and unstructured meshes,
(iii)    development and application of finite element methods for fluid dynamics,
          structural dynamics and electromagnetis,
(iv)    applications of computational mechanics to biomechanics and bioengineering.

Memberships and Credentials

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

-     Development of High-Order Accurate methods for Rotor Aerodynamics, 1998-2002.
      Funded by NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffet Field CA.
-     Know-Blade EU Project for Wind Turbine Aerodynamics, 2001-2004.
       Funded by the 5th Framework EU program.
-     Computational Prediction of High Speed Jet Flows, 2004-2007. 
       Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).
-     HPNET, Application of gas dynamics and biofluids CFD solvers to high performance
       grid computing environment, 2004-2005.
-     GOAHEAD, EU STREP project on Helicopter Aerodynamics, 2006-2010. 
      Funded by the 6th European Community (EU) Framework Program (FP6).
-     UFAST, EU STREP project on shock boundary layer interaction, 2006-2010. 
      Funded by the 6th EU Framework Program FP6. 
-     Long-Range Noise Propagation and Helicopter Path Optimization
      for Noise Reduction, 2004-2009.
      Funded by the European Army Research Office (ARO), London.
-     Development of a Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Multiphysics Problems
       Governed by Hyperbolic Equations, 2003-2012
       Funded by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Deveopment (EOARD)
       of Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), London.
-      Development of a Hybrid LES/RANS Approach for high order accurate 
       dynamic stall simulations on unstructured meshes, 2010-2012. 
       Funded by the European Army Research Office (ARO), London.
-      Development of a high order accurate methodology for 
        high speed plasma flow simulations. 
        Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), 2011-2013.
-      OCTOPUS, Novel Design Principles and Technologies for a New Generation of 
        High Dexterity Soft-bodied Robots Inspired by the Morphology and 
        Behaviour of the Octopus, 2009-2013. 
        Integrated Project (IP) Funded by the EU 7th Framework Program.
-       Fluid structure interaction for large scale wind turbines, 2011-2014.
        Greek National Strategic Reference Framework through EU funding.
-       Analytical and numerical electromagnetism with applications in 
         photonics and nanodevices, 2011-2014. 
         Greek National Strategic Reference Framework through EU funding.