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Thanasis D. Papathanasiou

Associate Professor


Curriculum Vitae
I. Education
  • Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1990) [Field: Polymer Processing (injection Molding)]
  • M.Sc., Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (1987) [Field: Biochemical Engineering (Reactor Design)]
  • Chemical Engineering Diploma, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece (1984)
II. Positions
  • R&D Scientist, Aluminium Castings Division, ALCAN International Ltd., Kingston R&D Center, Kingston, Canada. (1990)
  • Director's Post-Doctoral Fellow, Engineering Sciences & Applications Division (ESA/EPE), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA (1991-1992)
  • Associated Academic, Center for Composite Materials, Imperial College, London SW7 2BY, UK (1993-1997)
  • Unilever Lecturer in Process Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering & Chemical Technology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BY, UK (1993-1997)
  • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Swearingen Engineering Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA (1997 - present)
III. Publications
a. Edited Books

1.

Papathanasiou, T.D. and D.C. Guell (Eds.), "Flow-Induced Alignment in Composite Materials", ISBN 1 85573 254 8, Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK, (1997)
b. Articles In Books

1.

Papathanasiou T.D., Kalogerakis N. and L.A. Behie, "Modelling the Dynamic Behaviour of Immobilised Cell/Enzyme Bioreactors: The Tanks in Series Model", Scale-up and Mixing of Biotechnological Processes, (Ho, C.S and Oldshue, J.Y; Eds), pp.238-248, (1987)

2.

Papathanasiou, T.D., "Plastics Extrusion", in Encyclopaedia of Heat and Mass Transfer, Hewitt G.F. (Ed.), CRC Publishers, pp. 408-409, (1997)

3.

Papathanasiou, T.D., "Flow-Induced Alignment in Injection Molding of Fiber-Reinforced Polymeric Composites", in "Flow-Induced Alignment in Composite Materials", Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK, (1997)

4.

Papathanasiou, T.D. and M.S. Ingber, "Micromechanical Prediction of Effective Properties in Aligned-Fiber Composites using the Boundary Integral Method", in "Flow-Induced Alignment in Composite Materials", Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK, (1997)

c. Articles In Refereed Journals

1.

    Papathanasiou T.D., Kalogerakis N. and L.A. Behie, "Dynamic Modelling of Mass Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Immobilised Enzyme Bioreactors", Chemical Engineering Science, 43(7), 1498, (1988)

2.

Papathanasiou T.D. and M.R. Kamal, "Use of Boundary-Fitted Curvilinear Coordinates for the Numerical Simulation of Complex Viscoelastic Flows" Journal of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 37, 139-156, (1990)

3.

Avramidis, S., Englezos, P. and T. Papathanasiou, "Dynamic, non-Isothermal Transport in Hygroscopic Porous Media: An Analysis of Moisture Diffusion in Wood", AIChE Journal, 38(8), 1279-1287, (1992)

4.

Kamal, M.R. and T.D.Papathanasiou, "Filling of a Complex-Shaped Mold with a Viscoelastic Polymer. Part II: Comparison with Experimental Data", Polymer Engineering & Science, 33(7), 410-417, (1993)

5.

Papathanasiou T.D. and M.R. Kamal, "Filling of a Complex-Shaped Mold with a Viscoelastic Polymer. Part I: The Mathematical Model", Polymer Engineering & Science, 33(7), 400-409, (1993)

6.

Papathanasiou T.D., Ingber M.S., Mondy, L.A. and A.L. Graham, "The Effective Elastic Modulus of Fiber Reinforced Composites", Journal of Composite Materials, 28(4) 288-304, (1994)

7.

T.D. Papathanasiou, "A Micromechanical Investigation of Empirical Models for the Effective Properties of Aligned Short-Fiber Composites", Advanced Composite Letters, 4(1), 5-8, (1995)

8.

Papathanasiou, T.D., Ingber, M.S. and D.C. Guell, "Stiffness Enhancement in Aligned Short-Fiber Composites: A Computational and Experimental Investigation", Composites Science & Technology, 54, 1-9, (1995)

9.

Papathanasiou, T.D. and S.O. Ogadhoh, "Inhomogeneous Phase Distribution in Injection Molded Glass-Filled Polystyrene", Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia, 33(7), 1133-1138, (1995)

10.

T.D. Papathanasiou, "Modelling of Injection Mold Filling: Effect of Undercooling on Polymer Crystallisation", Chemical Engineering Science, 50(21), 3433-3442, (1995)

11.

    Caridis, K.A. and T.D. Papathanasiou, "The Dynamic Performance of an Immobilised -Urease Bioreactor in a Recycle Loop", Bioprocess Engineering, 14(1), 41-50, (1995)

12.

T.D. Papathanasiou, R. Soininen and K.A. Caridis, "Internal Microstructure and the Thermal Response of Functionally-Gradient Metal-Matrix Composites", Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy, 24,159-167, (1995)

13.

Ogadhoh,S.O. and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Particle Rearrangement During Processing of Glass-Reinforced Polystyrene by Injection Molding", Composites Part A, 27A(1), 57-63, (1996)

14.

T.D. Papathanasiou, "Microstructural Effects in Viscous Flow Through Fiber Preforms", J. Materials Science Letters, 15(17), 1507-1509, (1996)

15.

Soontaranun, W., Higgins, J.S. and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Shear Flow and the Phase Behaviour of Polymer Blends", Fluid Phase Equilibria, 121, 273-292, (1996)

16.

T.D. Papathanasiou, "A Structure-Oriented Micromechanical Model for Slow Flow Through Square Arrays of Fiber Clusters", Composites Science & Technology, 56(9), 1055-1069, (1996)

17.

T. D. Papathanasiou, "Microstructure Evolution During Molding of Particulate-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites", International Polymer Processing, 11(3), 275-283, 1996.

18.

Soontaranun, W., Higgins, J. S. and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Rheology and Thermodynamics in Partially-Miscible Polymer Blends", J. non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 67, 191-212, 1996.  

19.

T. D. Papathanasiou, "On the Effective Permeability of Square Arrays of Permeable Fiber Tows", International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 23(1), 81-92, 1997.

20.

Luwagie and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Viscous Heating in Planar Couette Flow: Series Solutions for Temperature-Sensitive Fluids", Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 30(1), 123-136, (1997)

21.

    K.A. Caridis, B. Luwagie and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Viscous Heating in Planar Couette Flow: Series Solutions for Temperature-Sensitive Fluids", Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 30(1), 123-136, (1997)

22.

K.A. Caridis and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Pressure Effects in Cross-Flow Microfiltration of Suspensions of whole Bacterial Cells", Bioprocess Engineering, 16(4), 199-208, (1997)

23.

T.D. Papathanasiou and P.D. Lee, "Morphological Effects on the Transverse Permeability of Arrays of Aligned Fibers", Polymer Composites, 18(2), 242-253, (1997)

24.

T.D. Papathanasiou, K.A. Caridis and B. Bijeljic, "Thermo-mechanical Coupling in Frictionally Heated Circular Couette Flow", International Journal of Thermophysics, 18(3), 825-843, (1997)

25.

T.D. Papathanasiou, "Circular Couette Flow of Temperature-Dependent Materials: Asymptotic Solutions in the Presence of Viscous Heating", Chemical Engineering Science, 52(12), 2003-2006, (1997)

26.

Adams, M.J., Briscoe, B.J., Corfield, G.M., Lawrence, C.J. and T.D. Papathanasiou, "An Analysis of the Plain-Strain Compression of Viscoplastic Materials", J. Applied Mechanics, 64, 420-424,(1997)

27.

S. O. Ogadhoh and T. D. Papathanasiou, "On Microstructure at the Weldline in Injection Molded Particulate Composites", Scripta Materialia, 37(8), 1143-1149, 1997.  

28.

K.A. Caridis and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Effective permeability of multi-channel microfiltration membranes from permeate flux measurements using the Boundary Integral Method", Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 30(5), 839-845, (1997)

29.

M. S. Ingber and T. D. Papathanasiou, "A Parallel-Supercomputing Investigation of the Stiffness of Aligned, Short-Fiber-Reinforced Composites using the Boundary Element Method", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 30, 3477-3491, 1997.

30.

T.D. Papathanasiou, "Explicit Corrections for the Effect of Viscous Heating in Circular Couette Viscometers", International Journal of Thermophysics, 19(1), 71-88, (January 1998)

31.

    T. D. Papathanasiou, "Explicit Corrections for the Effect of Viscous Heating in Circular Couette Viscometers", International Journal of Thermophysics, 19(1), 71-88, 1998.  

32.

T. D. Papathanasiou and B. Bijeljic, "Intra-Particle Diffusion Alters the Dynamic Response of Immobilized Cell/Enzyme Columns", Bioprocess Engineering, 18(6), 419-426, 1998.

33.

T.D. Papathanasiou, J.S. Higgins and W. Soontaranun, "An Experimental Study of Polymer Blend Mixing in a Twin-Screw Extruder", Polymers & Polymer Composites, 6(4), 223-227, (Fall 1998)

34.

T. D. Papathanasiou, J. S. Higgins and W. Soontaranun, "An Investigation of Shear-Induced Mixing in the PSAN/PMMA Blend", Polymer Engineering & Science, 39(12) 2461-2474, 1999.  

35.

T. D. Papathanasiou, "Flow across structured fiber bundles: A dimensionless correlation", International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 27, 1451-1461, 2001.  

36.

B. Markicevic and T. D. Papathanasiou, "The Hydraulic Permeability of Dual Porosity Fibrous Media", Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 20(10), 871-880, 2001.

37.

T.D. Papathanasiou, "The hydraulic permeability of periodic arrays of cylinders of varying size", Journal of Porous Media, 4(4), 323-336, 2001  

38.

S.O. Ogadhoh and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Particle Motion and Segregation near an Advancing Free Surface in Viscoelastic Fluids", Polymers & Polymer Composites, 9(5), 319-326, 2001

39.

B. Bijeljic, M. D. Mantle, A. J. Sederman, L. F. Gladden and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Slow Flow Across Macroscopically Rectangular Fiber Lattices and an Open Region - Visualization by Magnetic Resonance Imaging", Physics of Fluids, 13(12), 3652-3663, 2001.  

40.

T. D. Papathanasiou, B. Markicevic and E. Dendy, "A computational evaluation of the Ergun and Forchheimer equations for fibrous media", Physics of Fluids, 13(10), 2795-2804, 2001.  

41.

    T. D. Papathanasiou, E. Gravel, S. C. Barwick and E. D. Dendy, "Non-isotropic structured fibrous media: The permeability of regular arrays of fiber bundles of elliptical cross-section", Polymer Composites,  23(4), 520-529, 2002.  

42.

V. Kolli, S. O. Ogadhoh, S. M. Abel, F. Gadala-Maria and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Particle motion in the Fountain Flow Region During Filling of a Tube with a Viscoelastic Fluid", Polymer Engineering & Science, 42(2), 403-412, 2002.

43.

E. Juhlin, X. Chen and T.D. Papathanasiou, "On the effects of fiber length and spatial distribution on the stiffness of short-fiber reinforced composites", Polymers & Polymer Composites, 10(3), 205-210, 2002

44.

E.M. Gravel and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Development of permeability models for saturated fluid flow across arrays of fiber clusters", Advanced Composites Letters, 11(3), 123-130, 2002

45.

B. Markicevic and T. D. Papathanasiou, "On the Apparent Permeability of Regular Arrays of non-Uniform Fibers", Physics of Fluids,14(9), 3347-3349, 2002.  

46.

S. C. Barwick and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Identification of Sample Preparation Defects in Automated Topological Characterization of Composite Materials", Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 22(7), pp. 655-669, 2003.  

47.

B. Markicevic and T. D. Papathanasiou, "A model for the transverse permeability of bi-material layered fibrous preforms", Polymer Composites, 24(1), 68-82, 2003.  

48.

    S.C. Barwick and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Identification of Fiber Misalignment in Continuous Fiber Composites", Polymer Composites, 24(3), 475-486, 2003

49.

B. Markicevic and T. D. Papathanasiou, "An Explicit Physics-Based Model for the Transverse Permeability of Multi-Material Dual Porosity Fibrous Media", Transport in Porous Media, 53(3), 265-280, 2003.  

50.

X. Chen and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Interface Stress Distributions in  Transversely Loaded Continuous Fiber Composites:  Parallel Computation in Multi-Fiber RVEs Using the Boundary Element Method", Composites Science & Technology,  vol. 64, 1101-1114, 2004.  

51.

    B. Bijeljic, M. D. Mantle, A. J. Sederman, L. F. Gladden and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Slow flow across macroscopically semi-circular fibre lattices and a free flow region of variable width - visualisation by magnetic resonance imaging", Chemical Engineering Science, 59(10), pp. 2089-2103, 2004.  

52.

X. Chen and T.D. Papathanasiou, "On the variability of the Kozeny constant for saturated flow across unidirectional, disordered, fiber arrays", Composites Part A: Manufacturing and Applied Science, invited paper, accepted 12/2004

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