Projects

a. Recently completed funded R&D projects (2000-2004)

The recently completed funded R&D projects of the Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis group are summarized in the following table:

	Project Name & Principal Investigator	Subject summary	Duration & Funding Source
1	Know-Blade I. Ekaterinaris	Application of advanced turbulence and models to wind turbine blades. Numerical investigation of flow control application. Computation of aeroelastic response of wind turbine blades.	EC Started 1-12-2001 Ended 30-11-2004 Budget: 49 kEuros
2	Computation of High Speed Jet Noise (Phase I) I. Ekaterinaris	Development and Validation of a high order accurate method suitable of simultaneously capturing discontinuities and small amplitude acoustic disturbances.	European Space Agency (ESA), ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL. Started 1-2-2004 Ended 31-1-2005 Budget: 80 kEuros
3	Development of a high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for multi-physics problems governed by hyperbolic equations (Phase I) I. Ekaterinaris	Development of a basic high-order, DG discretization method. Applications to linear wave propagation and to the inviscid compressible flow equations.	AFOSR European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), London , UK Started 30-9-2004 Ended 30-9-2005 Budget: 12,1 kEuros
4	Environmentally friendly treatment of coasts using floating barriers. N. Kampanis	Application of numerical simulation and experimental techniques to the design and deployment of efficient environmental friendly floating barrier structures. Application to coastal protection and small boat port design.	PENED program, GSRT Duration: 2003-05 Budget: 5,5 kEuros
5	An Information System for the numerical simulation and forecasting of floods N. Kampanis	Numerical prediction of floods and simulation of devastation waves. Interfaces with GIS for accessing information from digital terrain maps and satellite images. WEB application.	French-Greek Integrated Actions PLATON 2000, GSRT Duration: 2001-02 Budget: 11,2 kEuros
6	Prevention of eutrophication via aeration N. Kampanis	Numerical simulation of the flow established by the aeration process in a eutrophised water basin. Establishment of criteria for the optimal aeration process. Interface with GIS for retrieving physical data	French-Greek Integrated Actions PLATON 2002, GSRT Duration: 2003-04 Budget: 13,9 kEuros
7	Computation of High Speed Jet Noise (Phase II) I. Ekaterinaris	Development and validation of a high order accurate method suitable of simultaneously capturing discontinuities and small amplitude acoustic disturbances.	European Space Agency (ESA), ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL Started 1-05-2005 Ends 30-04-2007 Budget: 240 kEuros
8	Development of a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for multi-physics problems governed by hyperbolic equations. (Phase II) I. Ekaterinaris	Development of a DG methodology for magnetogasdynamics and application to flow shock wave control of high speed flows using magnetic effects	AFOSR European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), London , UK Started 1-10-2005 Ends 30-09-2007 Budget: 36.4 kEuros
9	A WEB integrated information system for the numerical simulation of floods N. Kampanis	Numerical simulation of floods from rainfall or eruption of dams. Interfaces with GIS and databases. Development of a home machine interface for the exploitation and development of new models through the WEB.	French-Greek Integrated Actions PLATON 2004, GSRT Duration: 2005-06 Budget: 12,4 kEuros
10	Computer methods for the numerical solution of PDE's in Science and Technology V.Dougalis	Numerical and analytical investigation of the stability of solitary waves of the Boussinesq system of water wave theory and other problems	Spain-Greece E&T cooperation, GSRT Started: 1/5/2005 Ends: 30/4/2007 Budget: 10,4 kEuros
11	GRID-APP J. Ekaterinaris	Large scale fluid dynamics GRID-based computations in Aerodynamics and Biomechanics	GSRT 2006-2007
12	Image based patient specific hemodynamic simulation of arterial geometries Y. Papaharilaou	Image based patient specific hemodynamic simulation of arterial geometries	RPF’s FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME, IPE CYPRUS 2006-2007
13	BEACHMED-e	Strategic management of the littoral defense and the sustainable developement of the Mediterranean coastal zones	INTERREG IIIC (Sud) Authority Duration: 2005-2008 Budget: 260 kEuros

b. Funded R&D projects in progress

The funded R&D projects in progress of the Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis group are summarized in the following table.

	Project Name & Principal Investigator	Subject summary	Funding Source
1	GOAHEAD I. Ekaterinaris	Application of advanced numerical techniques for the calculation of steady-sate and time dependent helicopter flows. Detailed comparisons with full scale experiments for rigid and flexible rotors (aeroelastic coupling).	EC Started 1-7-2005 Ends 30-6-2008 Budget: 243 kEuros
2	TRANSFER C. Synolakis	Tsunami Risk ANd Strategies for the European Region	EC FP6 STREP 2006-2009
3	A Preliminary Study on Polarizable and Magnetizable Fluids (Phase I) J. Ekaterinaris	A Preliminary Study on Polarizable and Magnetizable Fluids	ESA 04/2008 -10/2008
4	Peripheral innovation pole of Crete Y. Papaharilaou	The electronic meta-health record – an integrated approach in providing e-health services	GSRT 2006-2008
5	PENED 2003 A. Katsamouris	Clinical, experimental and computational investigation of the evolution of hemodynamics in aneurysms and synthetic vascular grafts of the abdominal aorta and development of advanced visualization tools for clinical management support	GSRT 2005-2009