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John Tsamopoulos

John Tsamopoulos

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
41
Citations
6519
World Ranking
7001
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding contributions, via insightful computations and analyses, to the fundamental understanding of flows of twophase materials and viscoplastic fluids

Overview

John Tsamopoulos is affiliated with the University of Patras in Greece. Their research activities focus primarily on Engineering and Chemical Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Computational Mechanics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Food Science.

The main topics of Tsamopoulos's work include Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, Blood properties and coagulation, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies, Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, and Fluid Dynamics and Mixing.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Yannis Dimakopoulos, with 45 joint works
  • Stylianos Varchanis, with 19 joint works
  • P. Moschopoulos, with 13 joint works
  • Alexandros Syrakos, with 7 joint works
  • Giancarlo Esposito, with 7 joint works

Tsamopoulos has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most common publication venues are:

  • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (15 publications)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics (6 publications)
  • Physical Review Fluids (5 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (5 publications)
  • Journal of Rheology (4 publications)

Selected recent papers from Tsamopoulos's research include:

  • "Transition between solid and liquid state of yield-stress fluids under purely extensional deformations," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Asymmetric flows of complex fluids past confined cylinders: A comprehensive numerical study with experimental validation," 2020, Physics of Fluids
  • "The concept of elasto-visco-plasticity and its application to a bubble rising in yield stress fluids," 2021, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • "Advanced Constitutive Modeling of the Thixotropic Elasto-Visco-Plastic Behavior of Blood: Description of the Model and Rheological Predictions," 2020, Materials
  • "PEGAFEM-V: A new petrov-galerkin finite element method for free surface viscoelastic flows," 2020, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

In recognition of their contributions, Tsamopoulos was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016, cited for insightful computations and analyses advancing the fundamental understanding of flows of two-phase materials and viscoplastic fluids.

Best Publications

  • Creeping motion of a sphere through a Bingham plastic

    A. N. Beris;J. A. Tsamopoulos;R. C. Armstrong;R. A. Brown

  • Nonlinear oscillations of inviscid drops and bubbles

    John A. Tsamopoulos;Robert A. Brown

  • Spherical capsules in three-dimensional unbounded Stokes flows: effect of the membrane constitutive law and onset of buckling

    E. Lac;D. Barthès-Biesel;N. A. Pelekasis;J. Tsamopoulos

  • Steady bubble rise and deformation in Newtonian and viscoplastic fluids and conditions for bubble entrapment

    J. Tsamopoulos;Y. Dimakopoulos;N. Chatzidai;G. Karapetsas

  • Squeeze flow of Bingham plastics

    Dimitrios Smyrnaios;John Tsamopoulos

  • Secondary Bjerknes forces between two bubbles and the phenomenon of acoustic streamers

    Nikolaos A. Pelekasis;Alexandra Gaki;Alexander Doinikov;John A. Tsamopoulos

  • Numerical simulations of complex yield-stress fluid flows

    Evan Mitsoulis;John Tsamopoulos

  • Yielding the yield-stress analysis: a study focused on the effects of elasticity on the settling of a single spherical particle in simple yield-stress fluids

    D. Fraggedakis;Y. Dimakopoulos;J. Tsamopoulos

  • Steady bubble rise in Herschel–Bulkley fluids and comparison of predictions via the Augmented Lagrangian Method with those via the Papanastasiou model

    Y. Dimakopoulos;M. Pavlidis;J. Tsamopoulos

  • How viscoelastic is human blood plasma

    S Varchanis;Y Dimakopoulos;C Wagner;J Tsamopoulos

  • A quasi-elliptic transformation for moving boundary problems with large anisotropic deformations

    Yannis Dimakopoulos;John Tsamopoulos

  • Resonant oscillations of inviscid charged drops

    John A. Tsamopoulos;Robert A. Brown

  • Bjerknes forces between two bubbles. Part 2. Response to an oscillatory pressure field

    Nikolaos A. Pelekasis;John A. Tsamopoulos

  • Transient displacement of a viscoplastic material by air in straight and suddenly constricted tubes

    Yannis Dimakopoulos;John Tsamopoulos

  • On the velocity discontinuity at a critical volume of a bubble rising in a viscoelastic fluid

    D. Fraggedakis;M. Pavlidis;Y. Dimakopoulos;J. Tsamopoulos

  • Bjerknes forces between two bubbles. Part 1. Response to a step change in pressure

    Nikolaos A. Pelekasis;John A. Tsamopoulos

  • Densification of Porous Materials by Chemical Vapor Infiltration

    S. M. Gupte;J. A. Tsamopoulos

  • Boundary‐layer analysis of the dynamics of axisymmetric capillary bridges

    Abhay Borkar;John Tsamopoulos

  • Yielding the yield stress analysis: A thorough comparison of recently proposed elasto-visco-plastic (EVP) fluid models

    D. Fraggedakis;Y. Dimakopoulos;J. Tsamopoulos

  • Dynamics of Charged Drop Break-Up

    J. A. Tsamopoulos;T. R. Akylas;R. A. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Vlasis G. Mavrantzas
Vlasis G. Mavrantzas University of Patras
Dominique Barthès-Biesel
Dominique Barthès-Biesel University of Technology of Compiègne
Evan Mitsoulis
Evan Mitsoulis National Technical University of Athens
Antony N. Beris
Antony N. Beris University of Delaware
Robert C. Armstrong
Robert C. Armstrong Sandia National Laboratories
Nasser Ashgriz
Nasser Ashgriz University of Toronto
Christos Georgakis
Christos Georgakis Tufts University
Ralph T. Yang
Ralph T. Yang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Costas G. Vayenas
Costas G. Vayenas University of Patras
Robert J. Good
Robert J. Good University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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