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Contact Information:
Manousos Valyrakis
Ph.D. candidate
Charles E. Via Jr. Department
of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 24060, VA, USA
Office: Patton Hall, 200D
Advisors: Prof. P. Diplas,
Prof. C. L. Dancey
Colleagues: A. O. Celik, S.
Nam, J. Petrie
Education:
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2005-present
M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Protection & Sustainable
Development, AUTh, Greece, 2004-2005
Diploma in Civil
Engineering, AUTh, Greece,
1999-2004
Research
Interests:
River Mechanics (Incipient motion of sediment grains and Sediment
Transport), Hydro-informatics (soft computing/Machine Learning tools in
hydraulics-hydrology), Environmental and Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Numerical
Modeling of two phase flows (sediment-flow interaction)
Professional
Societies:
Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Student
Member of EWRI
Selected
Publications:
Valyrakis
M., P. Diplas, C. L. Dancey, A. O. Celik, “The role of instantaneous force magnitude
and duration on particle entrainment”, Journal of Geophysical Research (under review).
Valyrakis M., P. Diplas, C. L. Dancey, A. O. Celik, “Simulation of small scale river morphodynamics using Discrete Particle Models”,
2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, Blacksburg,
VA, 24-27 June 2009.
Panayiotis Diplas, Clint L. Dancey, Ahmet O. Celik, Manousos Valyrakis, Krista Greer, and Tanju
Akar (31 October 2008), “The Role of Impulse
on the Initiation of Particle Movement Under Turbulent Flow
Conditions,” Science 322
(5902), 717. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1158954]
Valyrakis M., Diplas
P., Celik A. O., Dancey
C. L. (2008), “Investigation of evolution of gravel river bed microforms
using a simplified Discrete Particle Model,” Proceedings of River Flow 2008, Ismir,
Turkey, 03-05 September 2008, 10p.
Valyrakis M., Dancey
C. L., Diplas P., Celik
A. O. (2008), “Discrete particle model for entrainment of uniform bed
material,” Proceedings of 9th
conference on Protection and Restoration of the Environment, Kefalonia, Greece, 29-03 July 2008, 8p.
Valyrakis M., Diplas
P., Dancey C. L., Akar
T., Celik A. O. (2006), “Development of a
hybrid adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy system for the prediction
of sediment transport,” Proceedings of River Flow 2006, Lisbon,
Portugal, 06-08 September 2006, p. 877-886.
Valyrakis M., Diplas
P., Dancey C. L. (2006), “Prediction of
particle entrainment using Neural Networks,” Proceedings of 8th
conference on Protection and Restoration of the Environment, Chania, Greece, 03-06 July 2006, p. 137-138.
Last updated : 16 September 2009
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