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Dimitra Anevlavi, Spiros Zafeiris, George Papadakis and Kostas Belibassakis
This work addresses the effects of blade tip-rake reformation on the performance of marine propellers using a low-cost potential-based vortex-lattice method (VLM) and the high fidelity artificial compressibility CFD-RANS solver MaPFlow. The primary focus...
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Dimitris Ntouras, George Papadakis and Kostas Belibassakis
Flapping foils for augmenting thrust production have drawn attention as a means of assisting ship propulsion in waves due to their high efficiency rate compared to traditional screw propellers. However, they can also offer substantial resistance reductio...
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Kostas Belibassakis, Evangelos Filippas and George Papadakis
Flapping-foil thrusters arranged at the bow of the ship are examined for the exploitation of energy from wave motions by direct conversion to useful propulsive power, offering at the same time dynamic stability and reduction of added wave resistance. In ...
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Gregory J. Grigoropoulos, Christos Bakirtzoglou, George Papadakis and Dimitrios Ntouras
The present paper proposes a new mixed-fidelity method to optimize the shape of ships using genetic algorithms (GA) and potential flow codes to evaluate the hydrodynamics of variant hull forms, enhanced by a surrogate model based on an Artificial Neural ...
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Eleftherios Tzagkarakis, Haridimos Kondylakis, George Vardakis and Nikolaos Papadakis
Advances in computers and communications have significantly changed almost every aspect of our daily activity. In this maze of change, governments around the world cannot remain indifferent. Public administration is evolving and taking on a new form thro...
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Charalampos Themistokleous, Nikolaos-Grigorios Markatos, John Prospathopoulos, Vasilis Riziotis, Giorgos Sieros and George Papadakis
Morphing offers an attractive alternative compared to conventional hinged, multi-element high lift devices. In the present work, morphed shapes of a NACA 64A010 airfoil are optimized for maximum lift characteristics. Deformed shapes of the leading and tr...
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Nikos Spyropoulos, George Papadakis, John M. Prospathopoulos and Vasilis A. Riziotis
In this paper, the accuracy of an in-house Actuator Line (AL) model is tested on aeroelastic simulations of a Wind Turbine (WT) rotor and a helicopter Main Rotor (MR) under uniform free-stream flow. For the scope of aeroelastic analyses, the AL model is ...
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Kyriakos Dimitrios Kantarakias and George Papadakis
In this paper, we consider the effect of stochastic uncertainties on non-linear systems with chaotic behavior. More specifically, we quantify the effect of parametric uncertainties to time-averaged quantities and their sensitivities. Sampling methods for...
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Dimitris Ntouras and George Papadakis
Modeling free surface flows in a CFD context typically requires an incompressible approach along with a formulation to account for the air?water interface. Commonly, pressure-correction algorithms combined with the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method are used t...
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Evangelos S. Filippas, George P. Papadakis and Kostas A. Belibassakis
Flapping foils located beneath or to the side of the hull of the ship can be used as unsteady thrusters, augmenting ship propulsion in waves. The basic setup is composed of a horizontal wing, which undergoes an induced vertical motion due to the ship?s r...
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