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Theo Theofanous Professor of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering Director, Center for Risk Studies and Safety E-mail: theo@engr.ucsb.edu phone: (805)-893-4900 fax: (805)-893-4927 |
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| Education |
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B.S.: ChE, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1965) Ph.D. : ChE, University of Minnesota (1969)
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| Honors and Awards |
1. Fellow, American Nuclear Society, (1988) 2. E.O. Lawrence Medal, US DOE (1997) 3. Member, National Academy of Engineering (1998) 4. Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Science, Ufa Branch (1998) 5. Honorary Doctorate, Lappeenrantaa University, Finland (1999) 6. Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Minnesota (2004)
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| Research Interests |
Under the major headings of "Risk Assessment and Management in Complex Technological and Environmental Systems" and "Multiphase Transport Phenomena”, our interests and work range from basic aspects, such as methodological issues in treating uncertainty in risk assessment, and basic multiphase flow physics, such as interfacial instabilities, to integrative and synthetic efforts towards understanding and optimizing real system behavior, assessing risks, and improving safety. Current key words: interfacial instabilities in high speed flows, aero-breakup, explosive dissemination of liquids, homeland security, defense against chem-bio weapons, burnout physics, nuclear reactor safety.
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| Selected Publications |
T. G. Theofanous, “A Physicochemical Mechanism for the Ignition of the Seveso Accident,” Nature, 291, No. 5817, 640-642 (1981). T.G. Theofanous, X. Chen, P. Di Piazza, M. Epstein and H.K. Fauske, "Ignition of Aluminum Droplets Behind Shock Waves in Water," Physics of Fluids6, 3513-3515 (1994). T.G. Theofanous, “Risk Assessment and Management,” Ch. 19 in Vol. 1 of “Comprehensive Structural Integrity ” a Handbook. Eds. I. Milne, R.O. Ritchie, B. Karihaloo, Elsevier (2003). R.R. Nourgaliev, T.N. Dinh, and T.G.Theofanous, “The Characteristics-Based Matching Method for Compressible Flow with Moving Boundaries and Interfaces,”. ASME J. Fluids Engineering, July 2004. T. G. Theofanous, G.J. Li, T.N. Dinh, “Aerobreakup in Rarefied Supersonic Flows,” ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, July 2004. R.R.Nourgaliev, S.Yu.Sushchikh, T.N.Dinh, and T.G. Theofanous, Shock Wave Refraction Patterns at Interfaces, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2005 (in press). R.R.Nourgaliev, T.N.Dinh, and T.G.Theofanous, Adaptive Characteristics-Based Matching for Compressible Multifluid Dynamics, Journal of Computational Physics, 2005 (in press). |
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