Thanasis D. PapathanasiouPhone 803.777.7219
Fax 803.777.8265
E-mail
2C17 Swearingen Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina 301 Main St.
Columbia, SC 29208
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Thanasis D. Papathanasiou
Associate Professor
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Curriculum Vitae
I. Education
- Ph.D.,
Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
(1990) [Field: Polymer Processing (injection Molding)]
- M.Sc.,
Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, The University of
Calgary, Calgary, Canada (1987) [Field: Biochemical Engineering
(Reactor Design)]
- Chemical Engineering Diploma, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece (1984)
II. Positions
- R&D Scientist, Aluminium Castings Division, ALCAN International Ltd., Kingston R&D Center, Kingston, Canada. (1990)
- Director's
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Engineering Sciences & Applications Division
(ESA/EPE), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
(1991-1992)
- Associated Academic, Center for Composite Materials, Imperial College, London SW7 2BY, UK (1993-1997)
- Unilever
Lecturer in Process Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering
& Chemical Technology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BY, UK
(1993-1997)
- Associate Professor of
Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Swearingen
Engineering Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208,
USA (1997 - present)
III. Publications
a. Edited Books
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Papathanasiou,
T.D. and D.C. Guell (Eds.), "Flow-Induced Alignment in Composite
Materials", ISBN 1 85573 254 8, Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge,
UK, (1997)
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b. Articles In Books
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Papathanasiou
T.D., Kalogerakis N. and L.A. Behie, "Modelling the Dynamic Behaviour
of Immobilised Cell/Enzyme Bioreactors: The Tanks in Series Model",
Scale-up and Mixing of Biotechnological Processes, (Ho, C.S and
Oldshue, J.Y; Eds), pp.238-248, (1987)
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Papathanasiou,
T.D., "Plastics Extrusion", in Encyclopaedia of Heat and Mass Transfer,
Hewitt G.F. (Ed.), CRC Publishers, pp. 408-409, (1997)
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Papathanasiou,
T.D., "Flow-Induced Alignment in Injection Molding of Fiber-Reinforced
Polymeric Composites", in "Flow-Induced Alignment in Composite
Materials", Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK, (1997)
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Papathanasiou,
T.D. and M.S. Ingber, "Micromechanical Prediction of Effective
Properties in Aligned-Fiber Composites using the Boundary Integral
Method", in "Flow-Induced Alignment in Composite Materials", Woodhead
Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK, (1997)
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c. Articles In Refereed Journals
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Papathanasiou
T.D., Kalogerakis N. and L.A. Behie, "Dynamic Modelling of Mass
Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Immobilised Enzyme Bioreactors",
Chemical Engineering Science, 43(7), 1498, (1988)
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Papathanasiou
T.D. and M.R. Kamal, "Use of Boundary-Fitted Curvilinear Coordinates
for the Numerical Simulation of Complex Viscoelastic Flows" Journal of
non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 37, 139-156, (1990)
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3.
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Avramidis,
S., Englezos, P. and T. Papathanasiou, "Dynamic, non-Isothermal
Transport in Hygroscopic Porous Media: An Analysis of Moisture
Diffusion in Wood", AIChE Journal, 38(8), 1279-1287, (1992)
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4.
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Kamal,
M.R. and T.D.Papathanasiou, "Filling of a Complex-Shaped Mold with a
Viscoelastic Polymer. Part II: Comparison with Experimental Data",
Polymer Engineering & Science, 33(7), 410-417, (1993)
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Papathanasiou
T.D. and M.R. Kamal, "Filling of a Complex-Shaped Mold with a
Viscoelastic Polymer. Part I: The Mathematical Model", Polymer
Engineering & Science, 33(7), 400-409, (1993)
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Papathanasiou
T.D., Ingber M.S., Mondy, L.A. and A.L. Graham, "The Effective Elastic
Modulus of Fiber Reinforced Composites", Journal of Composite
Materials, 28(4) 288-304, (1994)
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T.D.
Papathanasiou, "A Micromechanical Investigation of Empirical Models for
the Effective Properties of Aligned Short-Fiber Composites", Advanced
Composite Letters, 4(1), 5-8, (1995)
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Papathanasiou,
T.D., Ingber, M.S. and D.C. Guell, "Stiffness Enhancement in Aligned
Short-Fiber Composites: A Computational and Experimental
Investigation", Composites Science & Technology, 54, 1-9, (1995)
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9.
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Papathanasiou,
T.D. and S.O. Ogadhoh, "Inhomogeneous Phase Distribution in Injection
Molded Glass-Filled Polystyrene", Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia, 33(7), 1133-1138, (1995)
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T.D.
Papathanasiou, "Modelling of Injection Mold Filling: Effect of
Undercooling on Polymer Crystallisation", Chemical Engineering Science,
50(21), 3433-3442, (1995)
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Caridis,
K.A. and T.D. Papathanasiou, "The Dynamic Performance of an Immobilised
-Urease Bioreactor in a Recycle Loop", Bioprocess Engineering, 14(1), 41-50, (1995)
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T.D.
Papathanasiou, R. Soininen and K.A. Caridis, "Internal Microstructure
and the Thermal Response of Functionally-Gradient Metal-Matrix
Composites", Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy, 24,159-167, (1995)
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13.
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Ogadhoh,S.O.
and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Particle Rearrangement During Processing of
Glass-Reinforced Polystyrene by Injection Molding", Composites Part A, 27A(1), 57-63, (1996)
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T.D. Papathanasiou, "Microstructural Effects in Viscous Flow Through Fiber Preforms", J. Materials Science Letters, 15(17), 1507-1509, (1996)
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Soontaranun,
W., Higgins, J.S. and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Shear Flow and the Phase
Behaviour of Polymer Blends", Fluid Phase Equilibria, 121, 273-292, (1996)
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T.D.
Papathanasiou, "A Structure-Oriented Micromechanical Model for Slow
Flow Through Square Arrays of Fiber Clusters", Composites Science &
Technology, 56(9), 1055-1069, (1996)
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T.
D. Papathanasiou, "Microstructure Evolution During Molding of
Particulate-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites", International Polymer
Processing, 11(3), 275-283, 1996.
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Soontaranun,
W., Higgins, J. S. and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Rheology and
Thermodynamics in Partially-Miscible Polymer Blends", J. non-Newtonian
Fluid Mechanics, 67, 191-212, 1996.
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T.
D. Papathanasiou, "On the Effective Permeability of Square Arrays of
Permeable Fiber Tows", International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 23(1), 81-92, 1997.
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Luwagie
and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Viscous Heating in Planar Couette Flow: Series
Solutions for Temperature-Sensitive Fluids", Journal of Chemical
Engineering of Japan, 30(1), 123-136, (1997)
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K.A.
Caridis, B. Luwagie and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Viscous Heating in Planar
Couette Flow: Series Solutions for Temperature-Sensitive Fluids",
Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 30(1), 123-136, (1997)
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K.A.
Caridis and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Pressure Effects in Cross-Flow
Microfiltration of Suspensions of whole Bacterial Cells", Bioprocess
Engineering, 16(4), 199-208, (1997)
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T.D.
Papathanasiou and P.D. Lee, "Morphological Effects on the Transverse
Permeability of Arrays of Aligned Fibers", Polymer Composites, 18(2), 242-253, (1997)
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T.D.
Papathanasiou, K.A. Caridis and B. Bijeljic, "Thermo-mechanical
Coupling in Frictionally Heated Circular Couette Flow", International
Journal of Thermophysics, 18(3), 825-843, (1997)
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T.D.
Papathanasiou, "Circular Couette Flow of Temperature-Dependent
Materials: Asymptotic Solutions in the Presence of Viscous Heating",
Chemical Engineering Science, 52(12), 2003-2006, (1997)
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Adams,
M.J., Briscoe, B.J., Corfield, G.M., Lawrence, C.J. and T.D.
Papathanasiou, "An Analysis of the Plain-Strain Compression of
Viscoplastic Materials", J. Applied Mechanics, 64, 420-424,(1997)
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S.
O. Ogadhoh and T. D. Papathanasiou, "On Microstructure at the Weldline
in Injection Molded Particulate Composites", Scripta Materialia, 37(8), 1143-1149, 1997.
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K.A.
Caridis and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Effective permeability of
multi-channel microfiltration membranes from permeate flux measurements
using the Boundary Integral Method", Journal of Chemical Engineering of
Japan, 30(5), 839-845, (1997)
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M.
S. Ingber and T. D. Papathanasiou, "A Parallel-Supercomputing
Investigation of the Stiffness of Aligned, Short-Fiber-Reinforced
Composites using the Boundary Element Method", International Journal
for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 30, 3477-3491, 1997.
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T.D.
Papathanasiou, "Explicit Corrections for the Effect of Viscous Heating
in Circular Couette Viscometers", International Journal of
Thermophysics, 19(1), 71-88, (January 1998)
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T.
D. Papathanasiou, "Explicit Corrections for the Effect of Viscous
Heating in Circular Couette Viscometers", International Journal of
Thermophysics, 19(1), 71-88, 1998.
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T.
D. Papathanasiou and B. Bijeljic, "Intra-Particle Diffusion Alters the
Dynamic Response of Immobilized Cell/Enzyme Columns", Bioprocess
Engineering, 18(6), 419-426, 1998.
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T.D.
Papathanasiou, J.S. Higgins and W. Soontaranun, "An Experimental Study
of Polymer Blend Mixing in a Twin-Screw Extruder", Polymers &
Polymer Composites, 6(4), 223-227, (Fall 1998)
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T.
D. Papathanasiou, J. S. Higgins and W. Soontaranun, "An Investigation
of Shear-Induced Mixing in the PSAN/PMMA Blend", Polymer Engineering
& Science, 39(12) 2461-2474, 1999.
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T.
D. Papathanasiou, "Flow across structured fiber bundles: A
dimensionless correlation", International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 27, 1451-1461, 2001.
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B.
Markicevic and T. D. Papathanasiou, "The Hydraulic Permeability of Dual
Porosity Fibrous Media", Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites,
20(10), 871-880, 2001.
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T.D. Papathanasiou, "The hydraulic permeability of periodic arrays of cylinders of varying size", Journal of Porous Media, 4(4), 323-336, 2001
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S.O.
Ogadhoh and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Particle Motion and Segregation near
an Advancing Free Surface in Viscoelastic Fluids", Polymers &
Polymer Composites, 9(5), 319-326, 2001
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B.
Bijeljic, M. D. Mantle, A. J. Sederman, L. F. Gladden and T. D.
Papathanasiou, "Slow Flow Across Macroscopically Rectangular Fiber
Lattices and an Open Region - Visualization by Magnetic Resonance
Imaging", Physics of Fluids, 13(12), 3652-3663, 2001.
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T.
D. Papathanasiou, B. Markicevic and E. Dendy, "A computational
evaluation of the Ergun and Forchheimer equations for fibrous media",
Physics of Fluids, 13(10), 2795-2804, 2001.
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T.
D. Papathanasiou, E. Gravel, S. C. Barwick and E. D. Dendy,
"Non-isotropic structured fibrous media: The permeability of regular
arrays of fiber bundles of elliptical cross-section", Polymer
Composites, 23(4), 520-529, 2002.
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V.
Kolli, S. O. Ogadhoh, S. M. Abel, F. Gadala-Maria and T. D.
Papathanasiou, "Particle motion in the Fountain Flow Region During
Filling of a Tube with a Viscoelastic Fluid", Polymer Engineering &
Science, 42(2), 403-412, 2002.
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E.
Juhlin, X. Chen and T.D. Papathanasiou, "On the effects of fiber length
and spatial distribution on the stiffness of short-fiber reinforced
composites", Polymers & Polymer Composites, 10(3), 205-210, 2002
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E.M.
Gravel and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Development of permeability models for
saturated fluid flow across arrays of fiber clusters", Advanced
Composites Letters, 11(3), 123-130, 2002
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B.
Markicevic and T. D. Papathanasiou, "On the Apparent Permeability of
Regular Arrays of non-Uniform Fibers", Physics of Fluids,14(9), 3347-3349, 2002.
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S.
C. Barwick and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Identification of Sample
Preparation Defects in Automated Topological Characterization of
Composite Materials", Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 22(7), pp. 655-669, 2003.
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B.
Markicevic and T. D. Papathanasiou, "A model for the transverse
permeability of bi-material layered fibrous preforms", Polymer
Composites, 24(1), 68-82, 2003.
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S.C. Barwick and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Identification of Fiber Misalignment in Continuous Fiber Composites", Polymer Composites, 24(3), 475-486, 2003
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B.
Markicevic and T. D. Papathanasiou, "An Explicit Physics-Based Model
for the Transverse Permeability of Multi-Material Dual Porosity Fibrous
Media", Transport in Porous Media, 53(3), 265-280, 2003.
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X.
Chen and T. D. Papathanasiou, "Interface Stress Distributions in
Transversely Loaded Continuous Fiber Composites: Parallel Computation
in Multi-Fiber RVEs Using the Boundary Element Method", Composites
Science & Technology, vol. 64, 1101-1114, 2004.
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B. Bijeljic, M. D. Mantle, A. J. Sederman, L. F. Gladden and T. D. Papathanasiou,
"Slow flow across macroscopically semi-circular fibre lattices and a
free flow region of variable width - visualisation by magnetic
resonance imaging", Chemical Engineering Science, 59(10), pp. 2089-2103, 2004.
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X.
Chen and T.D. Papathanasiou, "On the variability of the Kozeny constant
for saturated flow across unidirectional, disordered, fiber arrays",
Composites Part A: Manufacturing and Applied Science, invited paper,
accepted 12/2004
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