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Two faculty members, senior researchers, doctoral candidates and undergraduate students, working with universities, manufacturers and ship operators in Europe and beyond.
The group belongs to the Machine Elements / Tribology Lab of the Division of Marine Engineering, in the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of NTUA.
Marine engineering with emphasis on the tribology of machine elements: hydrodynamic lubrication (THD/TEHD) of journal and thrust bearings and of piston rings, elastic shaft alignment, design optimization, surface texturing, diesel engine tribology, propulsion-system dynamics and numerical acoustics. Responsible for the Machine Elements Laboratory Unit of NTUA.
Co-founder of ShipReality (2018) and consultant to the maritime industry for more than 25 years.
Professor in the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Research on computational fluid mechanics and transport phenomena in marine and energy systems, including the thermo-fluid dynamics of lubricated contacts and combustion in large marine engines, and coordinator of major research programmes in tribology and engine optimization.
The group’s doctoral work is carried out by research students in the Division of Marine Engineering, several of whom appear as first authors of its recent publications. Recent doctoral research includes:
Undergraduate students join the group every year for their diploma theses; several of those theses have won best-thesis awards from RINA, SNAME and IMarEST.
Long-standing joint work on bearing thermohydrodynamics, engine tribology and manufacturing tolerances.
France — Professor Michel Fillon. Joint experimental and computational work on thrust bearings, texturing and TEHD analysis.
Poland — Professors Michał Wasilczuk and Michał Wodtke. Manufacturing errors, pad surface geometry and thrust bearing performance.
Switzerland — Professor Konstantinos Boulouchos. Engine-related research and combustion.
Greece — Professor Pantelis Nikolakopoulos. Textured micro-thrust bearings, wear minimization and liquid-slip surfaces.
Research and consultancy with the manufacturers, operators and class societies that use the results.
The Netherlands, Turbocharger Division — Mr R. Eling, Mr R. Visser. Design optimization and transient performance of turbocharger thrust bearings (MHI TD025R).
Switzerland — Dr German Weisser. Large two-stroke engine research.
STARBULK (i-MARINE monitoring prototype and sea trials on STAR Cleo) and other shipping companies, on shafting, bearing and vibration problems.
Cooperation on elastic shaft alignment and stern-tube bearing performance; ABS and RINA contributed to the i-MARINE dissemination event.
Pre-processing software (ANSA) used for the global finite-element models of the vessels in the shaft-alignment studies.
Joint work on encapsulated liquid lubricants in metal-matrix thermal-spray coatings with materials-science groups.