Department of Mechanical Engineering  Washington University One Brookings Drive Campus Box 1185 St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 USA   Office: Jolley Hall, room 317/318 tel: (+1)-314-935-4346 fax: (+1)-314-935-4014 email: tk@mecf.wustl.edu

SHORT INTRODUCTION: Educated in Britain and the United States, Professor Korakianitis (link: name-pronounciation audio wave file) is presently on the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the director of the Internal Combustion Engines laboratory. He conducts research in design and in steady, unsteady and transient processes of machinery components and of power conversion systems. His principal teaching responsibilities are in thermodynamics, design, turbomachinery and piston engines.

A US citizen, his industrial work experience and consulting activities include design, analyses and manufacturing products for the US Air Force, Navy and Army; and for various international commercial interests.

EDUCATION
	Sc.D.	MIT, Mechanical Engineering, Sep 1987
	S.M.	MIT, Mechanical Engineering, Feb 1987
	S.M.	MIT, Ocean Systems Management, Feb 1987
	S.M.	MIT, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, June 1982
	B.Sc.	Newcastle Upon Tyne Univ., UK, First Class Honours, Marine Engineering, July 1981

RESEARCH AREAS: Korakianitis is not excited by established equations or established solutions looking for new engineering applications. Instead, he derives the impetus for his analytic, numerical and experimental work from practical aspects in the design of machinery, machinery components and processes. He uses mechanics, dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and other sciences as necessary in the design of various types of contemporary machinery, including but not limited to piston engines and turbomachinery. Most of Korakianitis' scholarly publications address aspects of steady, unsteady and transient performance of machinery, power generation and energy conversion components, systems and processes. See current research interests and recent publications links below.

PERSONAL INTERESTS: Entrepreneurial companies; classical music; european sports cars.

   The following table of links is a site navigation map     

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Research in piston engines	Research in turbomachines	Engineering practice	Opinions on education
Internal combustion engines laboratory Emissions Combustion Piston dynamics Valve train dynamics Nutating-disk engine Turbochargers	Airfoil and blade design Stator-rotor interactions Aircraft inlets Combustion Emissions Gas-turbine transients Gas-turbine performance	Machine design topics Thermofluids design Blood flow in human heart Surgical instruments Power generation Aeronautical applications Piston engines	Graduate thermodynamics (ME 512) Graduate piston engine design (ME 578) Graduate turbomachinery design (ME 574) Senior design course (ME 404/404a/404b) Junior thermodynamics (ME 320A) Freshman internal combustion engines (ME 147)

Archival publications

1999 Graduation-day special:
click the icon below to download a 325 kb avi movie of the nutating-disk engine
two intake/compression/power/exhaust disk spaces per one engine-shaft revolution
(see nutating-disk engine link in the table above for more details)

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