Dimitrios
V. Papavassiliou
C.M. Sliepcevich
Professor
The University of Oklahoma
"The
most important single limitation of the human mind for turbulence research is
our inability to hold more than 7 (plus or minus 2) bits of uncorrelated information
in out short-term (working memory) -- the thinking part of the brain." S.J.
Kline
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EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Ph.D., Chemical
Engineering,
1996 M.S., Chemical
Engineering, 1993 ARISTOTLE
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI,
Diploma, Chemical Engineering, 1989 |
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PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY
- The University of Oklahoma, School of Chemical,
Biological and Materials Engineering, Professor, 7/09-present
- National Science Foundation, Division of Chemical,
Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport systems, Fluid Dynamics
Program Director, Summer 2013-August 2016
- The University of Oklahoma, School of Chemical,
Biological and Materials Engineering, Sarkeys
Energy Center, Associate Professor, 7/05-6/09
- The University of Oklahoma,
School of Chemical,
Biological and Materials Engineering, Sarkeys Energy Center, Assistant Professor,
3/99-6/05
- Mobil Technology Company, Upstream Strategic
- Mobil Technology Company,
Upstream Strategic
- Chemical
Process Engineering Research Institute in Thessaloniki-Greece,
Graduate Research Fellow, 10/89-7/90
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
The focus of my research is on the
fundamental understanding and modeling of transport processes with industrial
and environmental interest. Novel computational methods are developed and
applied by my group to explore turbulent transport of mass and heat, reactive
flows, multiphase flows and flows in porous media.
Numerical experiments are
conducted in a virtual laboratory that can provide excellent measurements for
turbulent channel and plane Couette flow. We can also measure heat and mass
transfer rates in these channels and we can monitor the trajectories of
hundreds of thousands of particles. We can also study elementary chemical
reactions in anisotropic turbulent fields, and simulate of multiphase flow
behavior in micro-pores and micro-channels.
The development of prototype
software for nanofluidics and nanoscale
heat transfer in carbon nanocomposits, as well as for
nanoparticle transport through porous materials is also underway. My interest
is in multiscale phenomena (flow through porous media
being one of such phenomena) and in the integration of scales in order to
predict the macroscopic manifestation of small scale phenomena.
My research interests include a
number of emerging areas, such as transport phenomena in biological systems and
small-scale transport (at the interface between statistical mechanics and
classical mechanics).
Teaching - ChE
4253 (Design I)
Teaching - ChE
5480 (Industrial & Environmental Transport)
Teaching - ChE 3432 (Unit Operations Laboratory)
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