Constantinos Evangelinos
Work mailing address
Room 5-424
Department of Ocean Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
tel. (617) 253-7950
email: ce107@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/ce107/www
Home address in the USA
255 Independence Dr.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3628
USA
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Home address in Greece
19, Evanthias Kairi ST
Athens, 11255
Greece
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Personal information
- Born 1971 in Athens, Greece.
- Hellenic nationality.
Degrees
- Ph.D, Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA, 1999.
Thesis title: Parallel Simulations of Vortex-Induced Vibrations in Turbulent Flow: Linear and Non-Linear Models.
- Sc.M, Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA, 1994.
- B.A. Honours, Mathematics, University of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, UK, 1993.
Basic education
Military Service
- Fulfilled the military service requirement from March 2000 to March 2001.
Work experience
Academic Work
- Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1994-1995 academic year.
- Graduate Research Assistant in the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1995-1999 academic years. The research was funded by AFOSR, ONR, DOE and the NSF.
- Visiting Research Associate (postdoctoral position) at the Center for Fluid Mechanics, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, June 1999 to December 1999.
- Research work with Associate Professor George Triantafyllou at the Laboratory for Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics of the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, July 1999 to March 2000.
- Research work with Prof. George Karniadakis at the Center for Fluid Mechanics, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, June 2001 to September 2001.
- Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Ocean Engineering, MIT, October 2001 to present.
Computer Related
Research Interests
- Numerical solutions of PDEs
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Flow-Structure Interactions
- Computational Elasticity & related problems
- Numerical Analysis & Numerical Linear Algebra
- Parallel Scientific Computation
- High Performance Computing
- Parallel Computing paradigms and frameworks
- Parallel algorithms and their efficiency issues on different architectures
- Serial performance bottlenecks
- Parallel performance bottlenecks
- Benchmarking
- New areas I'd be interested in working in:
- Computational Finance
- Computational Genomics
- Computer simulations of complex processes that require parallel processing
- Symbolic Computation
Skills
Languages
- Greek (native speaker).
- English (excellent).
- French (very rusty verbal skills).
Operating Systems
- System administration level experience on SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, Linux (Red Hat and SuSE). Security, networking and NFS, printing, installing and managing vendor and PD software, Web server maintenance (NCSA httpd/Apache).
- User level experience (MS Office and various image manipulation programs mainly) for MS-DOS/Windows family/Mac OS/MVS/VM-CMS/VMS.
- Extensive experience porting (as well as developing portable) applications on Unix systems: SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, Linux, HP-UX, SPP-UX, Unicos (and MPP derivatives), Tru64, BSD family and various other more obscure Unices.
- Some experience porting applications to Windows NT systems.
Programming Languages
- Mainly user of C/C++, and also of Fortran 77/90/95. Extensive familiarity with mixed language programming.
- Some experience with Java, LISP.
- Old time user of Pascal.
- Computer Algebra: Mathematica, Maple and (in the past) MuPAD, Derive.
- Scripting Languages and the like: Bourne/C shell, sed/awk; some experience with Perl, Tcl/Tk.
Parallel Processing
- Extensive experience as a Grand Challenge project user on most supercomputer systems available to foreign nationals in the USA from 1994 to 2000: Thinking Machines CM-5, Intel Paragon, Cray C90/J90, T3D & T3E, IBM SP1, SP2 all the way to the Power3 SP models, HP/Convex Exemplar SPP-1200 to SPP-2200, SGI Power Challenge & Origin systems, Sun HPC xx00 Servers, DEC Alphaservers and clusters of workstations (Alpha, Sun, PC, including setup of Beowulf clusters). Also some work with the Fujitsu AP3000 and the Hitachi SR8000.
- Extensive experience in performance analysis and tuning. Familiarity with most of the debugging and performance tools available on high performance systems.
- Mainly user of MPI/MPI2 and to a lesser degree CRAY shmem and PVM3.
- Some experience with HPF, OpenMP, Posix threads.
Computer Architecture
- In depth knowledge of current processor and memory technologies and resulting performance issues.
- Familiar with the hardware architecture, networking and OS issues and performance characteristics of current high performance systems.
Visualization and Graphics
- Extensive use of Tecplot, Super Mongo, gnuplot.
- Some experience with OpenDX and Vis5D.
- Some experience with OpenGL and X11 programming (in the context of the CAVE at TCASCV).
Document Processing
- Typesetting in LaTeX
- Word Processing in Microsoft Word and clones
- HTML
Selected Publications
Papers in Refereed Journals
- C.H. Crawford, C. Evangelinos, D.J. Newman and G.E. Karniadakis,
Parallel Benchmarks of Turbulence in Complex Geometries,
Computers and Fluids, vol. 25, p. 677, 1996.
- C. Evangelinos and G.E. Karniadakis,
Parallel CFD benchmarks on Cray computers,
Parallel Algorithms and Applications, vol. 9, pp.273-298, 1996.
- C. Evangelinos, S.J. Sherwin and G.E. Karniadakis,
Parallel DNS algorithms on unstructured grids,
Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engr., special issue on Vistas in Domain Decomposition and Parallel Processing in Computational Mechanics, vol. 184 nos. 2-4, pp.401-425, April 2000.
- C. Evangelinos and G.E. Karniadakis,
Dynamics and flow structures in the turbulent wake of rigid and flexible cylinders subject to vortex-induced vibrations,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 400, pp.91-124, 1999.
- C. Evangelinos, D. Lucor and G.E. Karniadakis,
DNS-Derived Force Distribution on Flexible Cylinders Subject to VIV,
Journal of Fluids and Structures, vol. 14 no. 3, pp.429-440, April 2000.
- C. Evangelinos, I. Lomtev and G.E. Karniadakis,
Shedding Patterns in Flow-Structure Interactions,
Journal of Visualization, vol. 2 no. 2, pp.135-142, November 1999.
- C. Evangelinos, D. Lucor, C-H. Su and G.E. Karniadakis,
Flow Induced Vibrations of Non-Linear Cables. Part I: Models and Algorithms,
Submitted: Int. J. for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
- D. Lucor, C. Evangelinos, L. Imas and G.E. Karniadakis,
Flow Induced Vibrations of Non-Linear Cables. Part II: Simulations,
Submitted: Int. J. for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
Papers in Refereed Conferences
- C.H. Crawford, C. Evangelinos D.J. Newman and G.E. Karniadakis,
Parallel Benchmarks of Turbulence in Complex Geometries,
Parallel CFD '95, June 26-29 1995, Pasadena, CA.
- C. Evangelinos and G.E. Karniadakis,
Communication Performance Models in Prism: A Spectral Element-Fourier Parallel Navier-Stokes Solver,
candidate for best student paper,
Supercomputing '96, November 17-22 1996, Pittsburgh, PA.
- S.J. Sherwin, C. Evangelinos, H. Tufo and G.E. Karniadakis,
Development of a Parallel Unstructured Spectral/$hp$ Element Method for Unsteady Fluid Dynamics,
Parallel CFD '97, May 19-21 1997, Manchester, UK.
- G-S Karamanos, C. Evangelinos, R.C. Boes, R.M. Kirby and G.E. Karniadakis,
Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence with a PC/Linux Cluster: Fact or Fiction?,
SC99, November 1999, Portland, OR.
Complete list of publications
Honors
- Candidate for best student paper, Supercomputing '96, November 17-22 1996, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Corpus Christi College Exhibition for 1991, Cambridge, UK.
- Athens College graduation prize for best student in Mathematics, Physics, English and honorary prize for History.
- Greek National Chemistry Contest, 4th place, April 1990, Athens, Greece.
- ECIS Senior Math Contest, 1st place in individual competition, March 1990, Istanbul, Turkey.
- ECIS Senior Math Contest, 7th place in individual competition, March 1989, Frankfurt, Germany.
References
Academic:
Prof. George Em Karniadakis
Center for Fluid Mechanics
Division of Applied Mathematics
Box F, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
gk@cfm.brown.edu
(401) 863-1217
Paul Fischer
Building 221, Room D-248
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
fischer@mcs.anl.gov
(630) 252-6018
Prof. George Triantafyllou
Laboratory for Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics
Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
9, Heroon Polytechniou Str.
Zografou 157 73
Athens, Greece
gtrian@deslab.naval.ntua.gr
tel. (011 30) 1 7721729
Computer systems - related:
Samuel Fulcomer
Technology Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Visualization (TCASCV)
and
Computing and Information Services
Box 1885, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912-1885
Samuel_Fulcomer@Brown.EDU
(401) 965-6811
Richard Boes
Computing and Information Services
Box 1885, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912-1885
Richard_Boes@Brown.EDU
(401) 863-3618
George B. Loriot
Computing and Information Services
Box 1885, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912-1885
George_Loriot@Brown.EDU
(401) 863-7308
Character reference:
Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Pantelis Mavrodopoulos
Nafpaktias 22 & Eptanissou 25
Agia Paraskevi
Athens, Greece
lami@x-treme.gr
(011 30) 1 6002548
Prof. Constantine Dafermos
Division of Applied Mathematics
Box F, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Constantine_Dafermos@Brown.EDU
(401) 863-1483