Summary
| Date | Academic appointments/Educational background |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Professor in Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics |
| 2004-2010 | Reader in Fluid Mechanics |
| 2004-2009 | EPSRC Advanced Fellow |
| 2001-2004 | Senior Lecturer, Reader in Fluid Mechanics, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK |
| 2015 | Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Japan |
| 2015 | Research scholar with the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering and the Programme in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), Princeton University, USA |
| 2005 | Visiting Professor, Laboratoire FAST, UMR CNRS, Université P. et M. Curie et Paris Sud, France |
| 2002-present | Visiting Professor, Unidad de Fluidos, Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Madrid, Spain |
| 2001-present | Visiting Scientist, Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. |
| 2000 | Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Stanford, USA |
| 1995-2001 | Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK |
| 1994-1995 | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK (Research Supervisor: Prof. D.H. Peregrine) |
| 1990-1994 | PhD, University of Notre Dame, USA (Thesis title: Self-similar interfacial and wetting dynamics, Research Advisor: Prof. H.-C. Chang) |
| 1984-1989 | Dipl. Ing.(5 yrs UG degree), Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Thesis title: Inviscid free-surface flows over topography, Advisors: Prof. V. Bontozoglou and Prof. A. Karabelas) |
Research Interests
Engineering Science Fundamentals, especially the cusp-interface between Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Engineering Science and Complex Multiscale Systems. Systems of interest cross the boundaries between Engineering Science, Physics and Chemistry. Particular emphasis is given to:
- Applied Mathematics, Computational Science and Engineering: perturbation methods; bifurcation and dynamical systems theory; discrete and essential spectra of differential operators; applied PDEs; numerical analysis; complexity reduction and low-dimensional representation of complex systems; data-driven coarse graining and machine learning; extracting coarse-grained models from time series with multiscale structure; applied stochastic processes; multiscale analysis for stochastic PDEs (SPDEs); homogenization theory; control of PDEs and of SPDEs; nonlinear forecasting; mathematical foundations of engineering.
- Statistical Mechanics: equilibrium and dynamic phase transitions; out-of--equilibrium processes; noise effects; dynamic density-functional theory; rigorous hydrodynamic theory of simple and complex fluids; phase transitions of fluids in confinement; micro-/mesoscopic dynamics of moving contact lines.
- Fluid Mechanics: micro- and multiscale fluid mechanics; molecular fluid mechanics; topological transitions; hydrodynamic stability, low-dimensional complexity and self-organisation in interfacial flows, dissipative solitons and nonlinear waves in free-surface thin-film flows; soft matter at interfaces and interfacial phenomena; viscoelastic and other complex fluids; chaotic mixing in micro-scale flows; flows in porous media; transport phenomena in advection/diffusion systems; wave-induced transport in multi-phase flow systems; applications on micro-/nanofluidics.
- Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics and Disease Transmission mathematical framework of epidemiology; minimalistic model development accounting for causal effects including social awareness and policy making; comparison with data and observations.
Group website
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Goddard BD, Nold A, Savva N, et al., 2013, Unification of dynamic density functional theory for colloidal fluids to include inertia and hydrodynamic interactions: derivation and numerical experiments, Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter, Vol:25, ISSN:0953-8984
Goddard BD, Nold A, Savva N, et al., 2012, General dynamical density functional theory for classical fluids, Physical Review Letters, Vol:109, ISSN:0031-9007
Savva N, Pavliotis GA, Kalliadasis S, 2011, Contact lines over random topographical substrates. Part 2. Dynamics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol:672, ISSN:0022-1120, Pages:384-410
Duprat C, Giorgiutti-Dauphine F, Tseluiko D, et al., 2009, Liquid Film Coating a Fiber as a Model System for the Formation of Bound States in Active Dispersive-Dissipative Nonlinear Media, Physical Review Letters, Vol:103, ISSN:0031-9007