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Dr. Manousos
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Ph.D., Research
Associate Education Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2011 M.Sc., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2005 Diploma, Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2004 Research Interests I am interested in pursuing research that spans the interface between water and energy resources engineering and management, with specific focus at the fields of surface and ground water flows, environmental fluid hydraulics and mechanics of sediment transport, granular and multiphase flow dynamics, carbon dioxide management and environmental impacts of the resource extraction industries. Teaching
Interests · Water Resources Engineering (undergraduate level) · Experimental & Environmental Fluid Mechanics (undergraduate & graduate level) · Mechanics of Sediment Transport (graduate level) · Computer Applications for engineers (undergraduate level) ·
Soil and
Groundwater Pollution (undergraduate level) · Introductory civil engineering courses (undergraduate level) Active Professional Organization Memberships American Geophysical Union (AGU) American Physical Society (APS) American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) European Geophysical Union (EGU) Environmental
and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) International
Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) Society of Engineering Science (SES) Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG) Selected Publications* Valyrakis, M., P. Diplas, and C. L. Dancey (2011), Entrainment of coarse grains in turbulent flows: An extreme value theory approach, Water Resources Research, 47, W09512, doi:10.1029/2010WR010236. Valyrakis, M., P. Diplas, C.L. Dancey (2011), Prediction of coarse particle movement with adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems, Hydrological Processes, 25, 3513-3524, doi: 10.1002/hyp.8228. Valyrakis M., P. Diplas, and C.L. Dancey (2011), Analysis of impulse events associated to entrainment of coarse particles, Coherent Flow Structures in Geophysical Flows at Earth Surface, Burnaby, British Columbia, 03-05 August 2011. Valyrakis, M., P. Diplas,
C.L. Dancey, K. Greer, and A.O. Celik
(2010), Role of instantaneous force magnitude and duration
on particle entrainment, Journal
of Geophysical Research, 115, F02006, doi:10.1029/2008JF001247. Valyrakis M., P. Diplas, and C.L.
Dancey (2010), Wavelet based analysis of energetic
events leading to entrainment of coarse grains, Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Environmental
Hydraulics, Athens, Greece, 23-25
June 2010. Valyrakis M., P. Diplas, and C.L.
Dancey (2010), Modelling the impulses causing
entrainment of coarse grains by means of Extreme Value Theory, Proceedings of 6th International
Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, Athens, Greece, 23-25 June 2010. Diplas, P., A.O. Celik, C.L. Dancey, M. Valyrakis (2010), Non-intrusive method for Detecting Particle Movement Characteristics near Threshold Flow Conditions, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 136(11), 774-780. Valyrakis M., P. Diplas, and C.L. Dancey (2010), On the impulse criterion for entrainment of coarse grains in air, International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics River Flow 2010, Braunchweig, Germany, 08-10 September 2010. Valyrakis M., P. Diplas, C.L. Dancey, and A.O. Celik (2010), Incipient rolling of coarse particles in water flows: a dynamical perspective, International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics River Flow 2010, Braunchweig, Germany, 08-10 September 2010. Celik, A.O., P. Diplas, C.L. Dancey, M. Valyrakis (2010), Impulse and particle dislodgement under turbulent flow conditions, Physics of Fluids, 22(4): 046601. Diplas P., C.L. Dancey,
A.O. Celik, M.
Valyrakis, K. Greer, T. Akar
(2008), The role of impulse on the initiation of particle movement under
turbulent flow conditions, Science, 322:717-720. Valyrakis M., P. Diplas, C.L. Dancey, and A.O. Celik (2008), Investigation of evolution of gravel river bed microforms using a simplified Discrete Particle Model, International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics River Flow 2008, Ismir, Turkey, 03-05 September 2008. *Feel free to contact me
requesting a copy to any of the above publications Last updated : 07 March, 2012 |
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