Theodoros Gerostathis

Associate Professor

Studies

• PhD in the scientific area of Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, NTUA, Athens, Greece, 2004.
• Diploma in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, NTUA, Athens, Greece, 1997.

Research interests

• Free surface hydrodynamics, ship hydrodynamics, wave-current-body interactions, hydroelasticity, energy production from waves and currents.
• Wave phenomena in sea environment, surface gravity and acoustic waves, propagation-scattering in sea environment of variable parameters.
• Application of mesh and meshless for the simulation of the velocity field flow field around of bodies.
• Parallel and distributed scientific computing for the solution of  ship hydrodynamics and wave propagation problems in sea environment.
• Computer aided geometric/ship design. Isogeometric analysis.

Selected publications

Filippas, E.S., Gerostathis, Th.P., Belibassakis, K.A., 2018, Semi-activated oscillating hydrofoil as a nearshore biomimetic energy system in waves and currents, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 154, 396-415.

Gerostathis, Th.P., Belibassakis, K.A., Athanassoulis, G.A., 2016, 3D hydroelastic analysis of very large floating bodies over variable bathymetry regions, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, Vol 2, 159–175.

Ginnis A.I., Kostas K.V., Politis C.G., Kaklis P.D., Belibassakis K.A., Gerostathis, Th.P, Scott M.A., Hughes T.J.R., 2014, Isogeometric boundary-element analysis for the wave-resistance problem using T-splines, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol.279, 425-439.

Belibassakis, K.A., Gerostathis, Th.P., Kostas, K.V., Politis, C.G., Kaklis, P.D., Ginnis, A.I., Feurer, C., 2013, A BEM-isogeometric method for the ship wave-resistance problem, Ocean Engineering, Vol.60, pp. 53-67.

Gerostathis, T., Belibassakis, K.A., Athanassoulis, G.A., 2008, A coupled-mode model for the transformation of wave spectrum over steep 3d topography. A Parallel-Architecture Implementation, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, JOMAE, Vol.130(1), 011001.

Courses

The current academic year teaches in the context of the following courses:

Undergraduate

• Fluid Mechanics
• Numerical Analysis
• Computer Aided Geometric Design of Marine Structures
• Seakeeping and Maneuvering

Postgraduate

• Computational fluid dynamics with applications in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
• Hydrodynamic behavior of ships in sea waves
• Advanced 3D design of ship systems