Browsing Τμήμα Μηχανικών Μηχανολογίας και Κατασκευαστικής / Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering by Title

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      Tapering analysis of airways with bronchiectasis 

      Quan, Kin; Shipley, Rebecca J.; Tanno, Ryutaro; McPhillips, Graeme; Vavourakis, Vasileios; Edwards, David; Jacob, Joseph; Hurst, John R.; Hawkes, David J. (International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2018)
      Bronchiectasis is the permanent dilation of airways. Patients with the disease can suffer recurrent exacerbations, reducing their quality of life. The gold standard to diagnose and monitor bronchiectasis is accomplished ...
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      Target cascading in vehicle redesign: A class VI truck study 

      Kim, H. M.; Kokkolaras, M.; Louca, Loucas S.; Delagrammatikas, G. J.; Michelena, N. F.; Filipi, Z. S.; Papalambros, P. Y.; Stein, J. L.; Assanis, D. N. (2002)
      The analytical target cascading process is applied to the redesign of a U.S. class VI truck. Necessary simulation and analysis models for predicting vehicle dynamics, powertrain, and suspension behaviour are developed. ...
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      Targeted Drug Delivery to Upper Airways Using a Pulsed Aerosol Bolus and Inhaled Volume Tracking Method 

      Ostrovski, Yan; Dorfman, Simon; Mezhericher, Maksim; Kassinos, Stavros; Sznitman, Josué (2019)
      The pulmonary route presents an attractive delivery pathway for topical treatment of lung diseases. While significant progress has been achieved in understanding the physical underpinnings of aerosol deposition in the ...
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      Targeted Drug Delivery to Upper Airways Using a Pulsed Aerosol Bolus and Inhaled Volume Tracking Method 

      Ostrovski, Y.; Dorfman, S.; Mezhericher, M.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Sznitman, J. (2018)
      The pulmonary route presents an attractive delivery pathway for topical treatment of lung diseases. While significant progress has been achieved in understanding the physical underpinnings of aerosol deposition in the ...
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      Targeting Inflammation to Improve Tumor Drug Delivery 

      Gkretsi, V.; Zacharia, L. C.; Stylianopoulos, T. (2017)
      Inefficient delivery of drugs is a main cause of chemotherapy failure in hypoperfused tumors. To enhance perfusion and drug delivery in these tumors, two strategies have been developed: vascular normalization, aiming at ...
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      Targeting inhaled aerosol delivery to upper airways in children: Insight from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) 

      Das, Prashant; Nof, Eliram; Amirav, Israel; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Sznitman, Josué (2018)
      Despite the prevalence of inhalation therapy in the treatment of pediatric respiratory disorders, most prominently asthma, the fraction of inhaled drugs reaching the lungs for maximal efficacy remains adversely low. By and ...
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      Targeting inhaled fibers to the pulmonary acinus: Opportunities for augmented delivery from in silico simulations 

      Shachar-Berman, Lihi; Ostrovski, Yan; Koshiyama, Kenichiro; Wada, Shigeo; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Sznitman, Josué (2019)
      Non-spherical particles, and fibers in particular, are potentially attractive airborne carriers for pulmonary drug delivery. Not only do they exhibit a high surface-to-volume ratio relative to spherical aerosols, but their ...
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      Techniques for Perfusion Imaging with Microbubble Contrast Agents 

      Simpson, David Hope; Burns, Peter N.; AVERKIOU, MICHALAKIS A. (2001)
      Deals with a study which introduced a common methodology, based directly upon the measured or modeled properties of agent and tissue, whereby Doppler and radio frequency (RF) filters for perfusion imaging can be optimized. ...
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      Tensile mechanical properties and hydraulic permeabilities of electrospun cellulose acetate fiber meshes. 

      Stylianopoulos, T.; Kokonou, M.; Michael, S.; Tryfonos, A.; Rebholz, Claus; Odysseos, A. D.; Doumanidis, C. C. (2012)
      The mechanical properties and hydraulic permeabilities of biomaterial scaffolds play a crucial role in their efficacy as tissue engineering platforms, separation processors, and drug delivery vehicles. In this study, ...
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      Tensorial volume of turbulence revisited 

      Kassinos, Stavros C.; Reynolds, W. C. (1990)
      A corrected tensorial turbulent volume transport equation, which is exact for uniform density flows, is derived from the Navier-Stokes equations. For homogeneous turbulence, the new terms appearing in the correct equation ...
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      Test-driven Coarray parallelization of a legacy Fortran application 

      Radhakrishnan, H.; Rouson, D. W. I.; Morris, K.; Shende, S.; Kassinos, Stavros C. (Affiliation: EXA High Performance Computing, Nicosia, CyprusAffiliation: Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United StatesAffiliation: Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United StatesAffiliation: Performance Research Laboratory, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United StatesAffiliation: UCY-CompSci, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CyprusCorrespondence Address: EXA High Performance Computing, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2013)
      This paper summarizes a strategy for parallelizing a legacy Fortran 77 program using the object-oriented (OO) and coarray features that entered Fortran in the 2003 and 2008 standards, respectively. OO programming (OOP) ...
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      Testing models of the symmetry of the superconducting pairing state by low-temperature electron irradiation of an untwinned single crystal of YBa2Cu3O7- 

      Giapintzakis, John; Ginsberg, D. M.; Kirk, M. A.; Ockers, S. (1994)
      We have carried out in situ resistivity measurements in a high-voltage electron microscope to determine how the superconducting transition temperature Tc and the resistivity (T) change with low-temperature electron ...
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      Textured VN coatings with Ag3VO4 solid lubricant reservoirs 

      Luster, B.; Stone, D.; Singh, D. P.; Baben, M. to; Schneider, J. M.; Polychronopoulou, K.; Rebholz, Claus; Kohli, P.; Aouadi, S. M. (2011)
      Silver oxovanadate powders were produced using a low temperature hydrothermal synthesis method. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman microscopy revealed the formation of the α-Ag3VO4 phase, and differential scanning calorimetry ...
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      Theoretical study of the flow in a fluid damper containing high viscosity silicone oil: Effects of shear-thinning and viscoelasticity 

      Syrakos, Alexandros; Dimakopoulos, Yannis; Tsamopoulos, John (2018)
      The flow inside a fluid damper where a piston reciprocates sinusoidally inside an outer casing containing high-viscosity silicone oil is simulated using a finite volume method, at various excitation frequencies. The oil ...
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      Theory-guided metal-decoration of nanoporous carbon for hydrogen storage applications 

      Holec, David; Kostoglou, Nikolaos; Tampaxis, Christos; Babic, Biljana; Mitterer, Christian; Rebholz, Claus (2018)
      The current paper presents a combined ab initio and experimental study of H2 adsorption on carbon. Adsorption energetics of a H2 molecule on pristine graphene were obtained for various molecule orientations, showing that ...
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      Thermal and chemical stability of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanoplatelets 

      Kostoglou, N.; Polychronopoulou, K.; Rebholz, Claus (2015)
      High-temperature properties of boron nitride platelets (200-800 nm in width and 30-50 nm in thickness) were systematically evaluated through thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) in combination with differential scanning ...
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      Thermal conduction in magnetized turbulent gas 

      Cho, J.; Lazarian, A.; Honein, A.; Knaepen, B.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Moin, P. (2003)
      Using numerical methods, we systematically study in the framework of ideal MHD the effect of magnetic fields on heat transfer within a turbulent gas. We measure the rates of passive scalar diffusion within magnetized fluids ...
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      Thermal conductivity and degradation behavior of HDPE/graphene nanocomposites: Pyrolysis, kinetics and mechanism 

      Tarani, E.; Terzopoulou, Z.; Bikiaris, D. N.; Kyratsi, Theodora; Chrissafis, K.; Vourlias, G. (2017)
      Graphene-filled high-density polyethylene nanocomposites varying filler’s size (5, 10 and 25 × 10−6 m in diameter) were prepared by the melt-mixing method, and their thermal properties are then investigated by TG, Py–GC/MS ...
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      Thermal conductivity measurements of anisotropic bulk samples using the 3ω method 

      Athanasopoulos, G. I.; Svoukis, E.; Viskadourakis, Z.; Giapintzakis, John (Affiliation: Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Avenue, Nicosia, 1678, CyprusAffiliation: Materials Science and Technology Department, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, Heraklion Crete 710 03, GreeceCorrespondence Address: Athanasopoulos, G. I.Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Avenue, Nicosia, 1678, Cyprus, 2010)
      The 3ω method has been applied to measure the anisotropic thermal conductivity of single crystals of SiO2 (quartz) and La 14-yCayCu24O41 (y = 9 and 10). A two-dimensional heat conduction model along with properly oriented ...
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      Thermal conductivity of Ni, Co, and Fe-doped La5Ca 9Cu24O41 thin films measured by the 3ω method 

      Athanasopoulos, G. I.; Svoukis, E.; Pervolaraki, M.; Saint-Martin, R.; Revcolevschi, A.; Giapintzakis, John (2010)
      The effect of Ni-, Co- and Fe-substitution for Cu on the thermal conductivity of La5Ca9Cu24O41 thin films is investigated. Highly b-axis oriented polycrystalline films were grown onto MgO (100) substrates using the pulsed ...