Professors - TurboLab

Dr. Ioannis K. Nikolos (ORCID: 0000-0002-0675-5880), Mechanical Engineer, is a Professor with the School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece, Director of the Turbomachines & Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (TurboLab–TUC), and Director of the Postgraduate Program in “Product Design & Manufacturing”. He received his Diploma Degree in Mechanical Engineering (1990) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and his Ph.D. Degree from the same institution (1996) (Lab. of Thermal Turbomachines - NTUA). Dr. Nikolos is a Visiting Professor with the Institute of Plasma Physics & Lasers (IPPL), Hellenic Mediterranean University. He also served as a Visiting Professor with the Lab. of Thermal Turbomachines - NTUA (2024). He has more than 35 years of experience in R&D projects funded by the EU, the Industry, and the Greek State. He has coordinated more than 45 R&D Projects, while he participated as a researcher in 13 additional ones. His research work is in the fields of Fluid Dynamics, Turbomachinery, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Engineering, Engineering Design Optimization and Traffic Flow modelling. He has co-authored one patent family, three books, one e-book, 66 journal papers and book chapters, 130 conference papers and 16 posters. His work attracted more than 4200 citations (Google Scholar, h-index: 31). Prof. Nikolos has supervised 9 completed PhD Theses and he is currently supervising another 1. He is a Senior Member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics), a Member of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and a Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (Computational Intelligence Society & Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society). He served as a Guest Editor (Mar. 2017 – Oct. 2017) and Associate Editor (Oct. 2017- Jan. 2021) with the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, as an Associate Editor for ASME Open Journal of Engineering (AOJE), and as a Guest Editor for the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP), for Advances in Engineering Software (ADES), and for Water. He has been a member of the research team of the TRAMAN21 ERC project, which was awarded with the IEEE ITS Society Outstanding Application Award for 2018. He has been awarded by the Global Power & Propulsion Society (GPPS) with the 2024 Service Award, “…for outstanding contributions and support to GPPS activities and mission”. He has been also awarded with the ASME 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award.

Dr. Anargiros Delis (ORCID: 0000-0001-6898-7321) is a Mathematician, Associate Professor of “Computational Mathematics” at the School of Production Engineering & Management of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece, where he has been working since 2013. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sciences at TUC from 2003-2013 and a visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Crete from 2000-2003. Prof. Delis is a member of the Applied Mathematics & Computers laboratory at TUC and a member of the Turbomachines & Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (TurboLab–TUC). He is also a collaborative researcher with the Institute of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH-IACM). He is a graduate of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Crete, in 1993, holder of an M.Sc., in Numerical Analysis & Computing, from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), U.K., 1994, and has received his PhD from the University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K. in Applied and Computational Mathematics in 1998. He has more than 20 years of experience in research and development programs, funded by the Greek State and the European Union. He has served as principal investigator in 3 Research and Development programs, while he has worked in additional 10. His research focuses in the area of Computational Hydrodynamics of Free Surface Flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and more generally in the area of Scientific Computing. He has completed the supervision of 1 Doctoral Thesis, while he is currently supervising an additional 2 while he has been in the supervising committee of 9 more Ph.D. students. He is currently the director of the interdepartmental Master’s degree program in “Applied Mathematics” at TUC. He is the co-author of 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed scientific conference proceedings, for which there are over 1400 non-self-citations [h-index (Google Scholar): 20, i10-index (Google Scholar): 28]. Prof. Delis has developed with his research group several CFD and Computational Engineering software. He acts as a reviewer for several international scientific journals, as (among others): Numerical Methods in Fluids, J. of Computational Physics, Computers & Fluids, J. of Aerospace Engineering (ASME), ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, J. of Scientific Computing, Int. Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Wiley), Engineering Computations (Emerald), IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor in the journals Water (MDPI) and Dynamics (MDPI). He has been a member of the research team of the TRAMAN21 ERC project, which awarded with the IEEE ITS Society Outstanding Application Award for 2018.

Dr. Vassilis Theofilis (ORCID: 0000-0002-7720-3434):

Education:
1984 BSc Physics, U Patras, Greece
1988 MSc Applied Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics, U Manchester, UK
1991 PhD Aeronautical Engineering, U Manchester, UK
1991-96: Post-Doc Dept of Applied Mathematics, U Twente, Netherlands

Awards:
1997 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, DLR Göttingen, Germany

2003 Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellowship, U Politécnica Madrid, Spain

2018 Ludwig Prandtl Memorial Lecture, T U Munich, Germany

2025 Fellow Royal Aeronautical Society

My research interests lie in the understanding, prediction and control of physical mechanisms underlying laminar flow linear and nonlinear instability and laminar-turbulent transition from the incompressible to the hypersonic regime. In my early career I pioneered theoretical/numerical developments to address instability of flows with multiple inhomogeneous spatial directions based on the continuum flow equations. Motivated by increased global interest in hypersonic flow physics phenomena, in recent years I have turned my attention to the intersection of statistical and continuum descriptions of hypersonic flows in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere. I joined the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Technion in 2024, where I perform integrated theoretical and experimental research to advance fundamental flow physics knowledge and pave the way for next-generation flight vehicles. I have served as Associate Editor of Aerospace Science and Technology (2006-16) and Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (2016-2021) and continue serving as Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics since January 2022.

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