Constantinos Politis
Professor, Head of the Department
Studies
- 1982: Diploma in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
- 1990: Doctor of Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
Research interests
- Ship Design: Methods of optimization, Optimum ship design, Ship evacuation, Seakeeping, Wave resistance.
- Water waves: Propagation and diffraction of surface waves, Stochastic description of water waves, Energy absorption from water waves, Acoustic ocean waves.
- Boundary-value problems: Boundary-value problem for partial differential equations, Boundary integral equations, Variational formulations, Finite elements, Asymptotic techniques.
- Rules for the Construction and Classification of Ships (Ship Surveys, Loads, Longitudinal and Local Strength, Ship Stability), International Conventions and Standards.
Selected publications
S.P. Chouliaras, P.D. Kaklis, K.V. Kostas, A.I. Ginnis, C.G. Politis, 2021, “An Isogeometric Boundary Element Method for 3D lifting flows using T-splines”, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 373.
S.P. Chouliaras, K.V. Kostas, A.I. Ginnis, C.G. Politis and P.D. Kaklis, 2021, “Refinement strategies for 3D lifting flows using an IGA-BEM solver”, XVI International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS 2021), ECCOMAS-IACM Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
K.V. Kostas, A. Amiralin, S. Sagimbayev, T. Massalov, Y. Kalel, C.G. Politis, 2020, “Parametric model for the reconstruction and representation of hydrofoils and airfoils”, Ocean Engineering, 199.
Kostas, K.V., Fyrillas, M.M., Politis, C.G., Ginnis, A.I., Kaklis, P.D., 2018, “Shape optimization of conductive-media interfaces using an IGA-BEM solver”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 340, pp. 600-614.
Kaklis, P. D., Politis, C. G., Belibassakis, K. A., Ginnis, A. I., Kostas, K. V. and Gerostathis, T. P., 2017, “Boundary‐Element Methods and Wave Loading on Ships”. In Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics Second Edition (eds E. Stein, R. Borst and T. J. Hughes).
K.V. Kostas, A.I. Ginnis, C.G. Politis, P.D. Kaklis, 2017, “Shape optimization of 2D hydrofoil using an Isogeometric BEM solver”, Computer Aided Design, 82, 79-87.
Wang, X., Chouliaras, S.P., Kaklis, P.D., Ginnis, A.A.-I., Politis, C.G., Kostas, K.V., 2017, “Wave-resistance computation via CFD and IGA-BEM solvers: A comparative study”, Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, pp. 706-712.
K.V. Kostas, A.I. Ginnis, C.G. Politis, P.D. Kaklis, 2015, “Ship-hull shape optimization with a T-spline based BEM-isogeometric solver”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 284.
A.I. Ginnis, K.V. Kostas, C.G. Politis, P.D. Kaklis, 2015, “VELOS – A VR environment for ship applications: Current status and planned extensions”, Virtual Realities – Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8844, pp.33-55, Springer.
A.I. Ginnis, K.V. Kostas, C.G. Politis, P.D. Kaklis, K.A. Belibassakis, Th.P. Gerostathis, M.A. Scott, T.J.R Hughes, 2014, “Isogeometric Boundary-Element Analysis for the Wave-Resistance Problem using T-splines”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 279, 425-439.
C.G. Politis, A.I. Ginnis, P.D. Kaklis, K. Belibassakis, C. Feuer, 2009, “An Isogeometric BEM for exterior potential-flow problems in the plane”, in Proceedings of SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, San Francisco, California, USA.
Courses
The current academic year teaches in the context of the following courses:
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
- Computational Methods for Engineers
- Ship hydrodynamic behavior in sea waves