Vlachos Nicholas

Νikos Vlachos was born on the island of Euboia and was raised in Marousi-Athens, Greece. He received the degrees of Mechanical-Electrical Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens (1967), ΜSc in Thermal Power (1972) and PhD in Fluids Engineering (1977) from Ιmperial College, London University. He is member of the Greek Technical Chambers (1967), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1976), and Senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (1987).

He worked as a researcher, faculty member or company executive in England, France and the USA more than twenty years (1970-91). He has specialized in laser flow diagnostics and computational fluid dynamics and transport phenomena (CFD). In the USA, he developed flow models for the main engines of the space shuttle (NASA) and for flue gas sulfur scrubbing (Dept. of Energy), in England (Imperial College/SERC) models and laser anemometry for blood flow and internal combustion engines, and in France (Inst. de mecanique des Fluides – U. Strasbourg) CFD models and Laser anemometry. He has given invited lectures in England, France, Germany and the USA and has organized conferences and colloquia on topics of flow, environment and energy. He has been a reviewer for numerous scientific journals or conferences and research proposals.

He has taught aerodynamics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics and measurement techniques in the thermal sciences at the universities of Illinois at Urbana, Alabama in Huntsville, Aegean and Thessaly. His research interests are in thermo-fluid mechanics of energy systems, propulsion and environment, laser flow diagnostics and mathematical models of flow and transport phenomena. He has presented more than (80) articles in scientific journals and conferences and he has supervised six PhD theses.

Nikos Vlachos was the first elected professor (1992) of the Engineering School of the University of Thessaly (UTH) and as Acting Chairman (1992-98) of the Department he contributed to its organization and development. He served as chairman of the UTH Library committee (1994-99), and as member of the governing boards of the universities of Aegean (1993-95) and Thessaly (1994-98). He was president of the technological center for metals ΕΒΕΤΑΜ (1994-98) and a founding member of the Hellenic Laboratory Association (1997) and its president (1999-2000). He was the scientific responsible for the 2nd CSFP project for the development of the UTH Library (1996-2000) and for the postgraduate program of the MIE Department (1998-2000).

For many years he was the director of the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics & Turbomachines, where supervised/is supervising, with three other faculty members, research projects in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena using computational fluid dynamics and laser flow diagnostics. Until the end of 2010, he will be the scientific responsible for UTH of the National Program for Thermonuclear Fusion supported by the Association Euratom – Hellenic Republic via the General Secretariat for Research & Technology. For several years he has been responsible for the organization of the Fusion Schools at UTH.

On September 2010, he retired as faculty member, and on April 2011, he was proclaimed Emeritus Professor by the Senate of the University of Thessaly.

For details on research and teaching activities and recent publications visit the website of the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics & Turbomachinery (LFMT).