Materials Science and Engineering

Biography

Professor Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Engineering Science, Executive Director of the Strathclyde Space Institute and Executive Director of Global University Partnerships (US & Far East) at the University of Starthclyde, Glasgow, UK. Prior to his present positions, he was the Executive Dean (Engineering) at the University of Strathclyde, Head of Aerospace Sciences and Professor of Fluid Mechanics & Computational Science at Cranfield University (2003-2015). His expertise is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Molecular Dynamics for flows and materials, fluid mechanics (particularly compressible flows), and micro/nanoscale processes at fluid-solid interfaces. He has been active in both fundamental and applied research across a diverse spectrum of aerospace and mechanical engineering applications. To date, he has co-authored two books in the field of computational fluid dynamics and has published about 400 papers/book chapters in the above technical areas

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