Kallinderis Yannis
Academic position: Professor
Biographic Notes
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. PhD from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at M.I.T.
Research and Academic Activity
Research and Teaching in the areas of Aerodynamic Design of Air Vehicles, Aerodynamics and the broader area of Fluid Mechanics, and Computational Methods.
Courses
Fluid Mechanics II
COURSE CONTENT BASIC PRINCIPLES OF IDEAL FLOW. Fluid deformation and vorticity. Stream function and velocity potential. ELEMENTARY FLOWS. Parallel flow, source, sink and dynamic...
Design of Air Vehicles
COURSE CONTENT Introduction to conceptual design of air vehicles. Design specifications. Calculation of weights. Sensitivity of maximum aircraft weight to basic parameters. Calculation of...
Computational Fluid Dynamics
COURSE CONTENT Finite Difference Method: Classification of partial differential equations. Construction of finite difference approximations. Discretization of first and second order derivatives. Temporal discretization....
Compressible Flow
COURSE CONTENT Basic principles of thermodynamics. Compressibility of fluids and speed of sound. Isentropic flows in convergent/divergent ducts. Flow in a constant area duct...