Director

 Professor John Tsamopoulos


Email: tsamo [at] chemeng.upatras.gr

Curriculum Details

 Studies

Diploma, Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1979.

M.S. Chemical Engineering, Mass. Inst. of Technology, 1981.

Ph.D.,Chemical Engineering, Mass. Inst. of Technology, 1985.

 Selected publications

Varchanis, S., Syrakos, Al., Dimakopoulos, Y., and Tsamopoulos, J., “A new finite element formulation for viscoelastic flows: Circumventing simultaneously the LBB conditions and the high-Weissenberg number problem”, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 267, 78-97, (2019), doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2019.04.003

Varchanis, S., Makrigiorgos, G., Moschopoulos, P., Dimakopoulos, Y., and Tsamopoulos, J., “Modelling and Rheology of Thixotropic Elastoviscoplastic Fluids”, J. Rheol. 63, 609-639 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1122/1.5049136

De Corato, M., Saint-Michel, B., Makrigiorgios, G., Dimakopoulos, Y., Tsamopoulos, J., Garbin, V., “Oscillations of small bubbles and medium yielding in elastoviscoplastic fluids”, Phys. Rev. Fluids, paper 073301 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.073301 , DOI:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.073301

Pettas, D., Karapetsas, G., Dimakopoulos, Y. and Tsamopoulos, J., “Viscoelastic film flows over an inclined substrate with sinusoidal topography, II. Linear stability analysis”, Phys. Rev. Fluids, 4(8), (2019) URL: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.083304, Editors’ Suggestion.

Syrakos, Al., Dimakopoulos, Y., and Tsamopoulos, J., “A finite volume method for the simulation of elastoviscoplastic flows and its application to the lid-driven cavity case” J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 275, 104216 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2019.104216

Moschopoulos, P., Dimakopoulos, Y., and Tsamopoulos, J., “Electro-osmotic flow of electrolyte solutions of PEO in microfluidic channels”, J. Colloid Interf. Sci. 563, 381-393 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2019.12.052.

Varchanis, S., Cameron C. Hopkins, A. Q. Shen, J. Tsamopoulos, and S. J. Haward, “Asymmetric flows of complex fluids past confined cylinders: A comprehensive numerical study with experimental validation”, Phys. Fluids, 32, 053103 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0008783, featured article in the May 2020 issue of the Journal.

Varchanis, S., Haward, S.J., Hopkins C.C., Syrakos, A., Shen, A.Q., Dimakopoulos, Y. and Tsamopoulos, J., Transition between solid and liquid state of yield-stress fluids under purely extensional deformations”, Proceed. National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS) (2020). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922242117