Selected Publications

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Biofluid Dynamics - Flow in Microfluidics

  1. Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2009
    ``Dynamics of strain-hardening and strain-softening capsules in strong planar extensional flows via an interfacial spectral boundary element algorithm for elastic membranes''
    J. Fluid Mech., to appear.

  2. Takemura F., Magnaudet J. and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2009
    ``Migration and deformation of bubbles rising in a wall-bounded shear flow at finite Reynolds number''
    J. Fluid Mech., 634, 463-486.

  3. Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2008
    ``Spindles, cusps and bifurcation for capsules in Stokes flow''
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 208102.

  4. Wang Yechun and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006
    ``A three-dimensional spectral boundary element algorithm for interfacial dynamics in Stokes flow''
    Phys. Fluids, 18, 082106(1-16).

  5. Wang Yechun and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006
    ``Nature of the hemodynamic forces exerted on vascular endothelial cells or leukocytes adhering to the surface of blood vessels''
    Phys. Fluids, 18, 087107(1-14).

  6. Wang Yechun and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006
    ``Normal force exerted on vascular endothelial cells''
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 028106.


Dynamics of Multiphase Flows: Flow in Porous Media

  1. Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2007
    ``Gravitational effects on the deformation of a droplet adhering to a horizontal solid surface in shear flow''
    Phys. Fluids, 19, 122105(1-14).

  2. Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2007
    ``Deformation of a droplet adhering to a solid surface in shear flow: onset of interfacial sliding''
    J. Fluid Mech., 580, 451-466.

  3. Dimitrakopoulos, P. and Higdon, J.J.L., 2003
    ``On the displacement of fluid bridges from solid surfaces in viscous pressure-driven flows''
    Phys. Fluids, 15 (10), 3255-3258.

  4. Dimitrakopoulos, P. and Higdon, J.J.L., 2001
    ``On the displacement of three-dimensional fluid droplets adhering to a plane wall in viscous pressure-driven flows''
    J. Fluid Mech., 435, 327-350.

  5. Dimitrakopoulos, P. and Higdon, J.J.L., 1999
    ``On the gravitational displacement of three-dimensional fluid droplets from inclined solid surfaces''
    J. Fluid Mech., 395, 181-209.

  6. Dimitrakopoulos, P. and Higdon, J.J.L., 1998
    ``On the displacement of three-dimensional fluid droplets from solid surfaces in low-Reynolds-number shear flows''
    J. Fluid Mech., 377, 189-222.

  7. Dimitrakopoulos, P. and Higdon, J.J.L., 1997
    ``Displacement of fluid droplets from solid surfaces in low-Reynolds-number shear flows''
    J. Fluid Mech., 336, 351-378.


Biophysics and Microrheology: Dilute Solutions of Biopolymers

  1. Dissanayake I. D. and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2008
    ``Coil-helix-rod transition of an initially flexible bead-rod polymer after rapid stiffening: configuration and stress evolution''
    J. Chem. Phys., under review.

  2. Dissanayake, I. D. and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006
    ``Stress, birefringence and conformational relaxation of an initially straight stiff bead-rod polymer''
    Phys. Rev. E, 74, 021918(1-14).

  3. Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2004
    ``Longitudinal relaxation of initially straight flexible and stiff polymers''
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 217801.

  4. Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2004
    ``Stress and configuration relaxation of an initially straight flexible polymer''
    J. Fluid Mech., 513, 265-286.

  5. Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2003
    ``Conformational evolution of initially straight flexible and stiff polymers over extended time periods via the scaling law methodology ''
    J. Chem. Phys., 119 (15), 8189-8196.

  6. Dimitrakopoulos, P., Brady, J. F. and Wang, Zhen-Gang, 2001
    ``Short- and intermediate-time behavior of the linear stress relaxation in semiflexible polymers''
    Phys. Rev. E., 64 (5), 050803(R).


Numerical Analysis: Development of Efficient Computational Methodologies

  1. Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2009
    ``Dynamics of strain-hardening and strain-softening capsules in strong planar extensional flows via an interfacial spectral boundary element algorithm for elastic membranes''
    J. Fluid Mech., to appear.

  2. Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2007
    ``Interfacial dynamics in Stokes flow via a three-dimensional fully-implicit interfacial spectral boundary element algorithm''
    J. Comp. Phys., 225, 408-426.

  3. Dimitrakopoulos, P., and Wang Jingtao, 2007
    ``A spectral boundary element algorithm for interfacial dynamics in two-dimensional Stokes flow based on Hermitian interfacial smoothing''
    Eng. Anal. Bound. Elem., 31, 646-656.

  4. Wang Yechun and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006
    ``A three-dimensional spectral boundary element algorithm for interfacial dynamics in Stokes flow''
    Phys. Fluids, 18, 082106(1-16).

  5. Wang Yechun, Dodson W. R. III and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006
    ``Dynamics of multiphase flows via spectral boundary elements and parallel computations''
    In Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Theory and Applications,
    A. Deane, G. Brenner, A. Ecer, D. Emerson, J. McDonough, J. Periaux, N. Satofuka and D. Tromeur-Dervout (Eds.).
    Elsevier/North-Holland, 405-412.

  6. Dissanayake I. D. and Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2006
    ``Dynamics of biological and synthetic polymers through large-scale parallel computations''
    In Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Theory and Applications,
    A. Deane, G. Brenner, A. Ecer, D. Emerson, J. McDonough, J. Periaux, N. Satofuka and D. Tromeur-Dervout (Eds.).
    Elsevier/North-Holland, 211-218.

  7. Dimitrakopoulos, P., 2003
    ``Conformational evolution of initially straight flexible and stiff polymers over extended time periods via the scaling law methodology ''
    J. Chem. Phys., 119 (15), 8189-8196.

  8. Dimitrakopoulos, P. and Higdon, J.J.L., 1998
    ``On the displacement of three-dimensional fluid droplets from solid surfaces in low-Reynolds-number shear flows''
    J. Fluid Mech., 377, 189-222.

  9. Dimitrakopoulos, P. and Higdon, J.J.L., 1997
    ``Displacement of fluid droplets from solid surfaces in low-Reynolds-number shear flows''
    J. Fluid Mech., 336, 351-378.


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