Dr. Demosthenes Kivotides

  Email: demos@engineering.ucsb.edu

  Telephone: (805) 893 4939

Education

• Cambridge University, United Kingdom (EU), M.S. (1998).
• Aachen University of Technology, Germany (EU), Ph.D. (1995).
• Stanford University, California, USA, M.S. (1989).
• University of Thessaloniki, Greece, (EU), B.S. (1988).

Professional Appointments

• University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA, Research Fellow (2007-).
• Newcastle University, United Kingdom (EU), Research Fellow (2004-2007).
• Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (EU), Research Fellow (2003-2004).
• California Institute of Technology, California, USA, Research Fellow (2001-2003).
• Newcastle University, United Kingdom (EU), Research Fellow (1998-2001).

Research Interests

Numerical and computational analysis of multiscale, nonlinear problems of mathematical physics.

Selected Recent Publications

• D. Kivotides, C.F. Barenghi, A.J. Mee and Y.A. Sergeev, Interaction of solid particles with a
  tangle of vortex filaments in a viscous fluid, SUBMITTED.
• D. Kivotides, A.J. Mee and C.F. Barenghi, Magnetic field generation by coherent turbulence
  structures, New J. Phys. TO APPEAR.
• D. Kivotides, Viscous microdetonation physics, Phys. Lett. A363, 458 (2007).
• D. Kivotides, C.F. Barenghi and Y.A. Sergeev, Physics of solid particles in thermal counter-
  flow, Europhys. Lett. 73, 733 (2006).
• D. Kivotides, Coherent structure formation in turbulent thermal superfluids, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  96, 175301 (2006).
• D. Kivotides and A. Leonard, Geometrical physics of the many vortex filament problem,
  Europhys. Lett. 66, 69 (2004).