Interests
Dr. Kinnas' expertise is in the area of computational hydrodynamics with applications on the design of ocean vehicles and off-shore structures. In particular, his research has been focused on the prediction of unsteady sheet and tip vortex cavitation, design of high-speed propulsors, free-surface entry, inflow/propulsor interaction, and wave/floating body interaction. Dr. Kinnas is the associate director at UT for the Offshore Technology Research Center (OTRC), and a member of the editorial committee of the Journal of Ship Research. For additional information, see Dr. Kinnas' home page

Education
B.S., National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Naval Architecture and Marine Engr., 1981
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ocean Engineering, 1985

Kinnas, S.A., Yu, Y.-H., and Vinayan, V. “Numerical Methods for the Prediction of the Bilge Keel Effects on the Response of Ship-Shaped Hulls to Waves,” The 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Enginnering (OMAE), San Diego, CA, June 10-15, 2007.

Lee, H. and Kinnas, S.A., “A BEM for the Modeling of Unsteady Propeller Sheet Cavitation inside of a Cavitation Tunnel,” Journal of Computational Mechanics, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 41-51, December 2005 (published online, July 2005).

Lee, H. and Kinnas, S.A., “Fully Unsteady Wake Alignment for Propellers in Non-axisymmetric Flows,” Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 176-190, September 2005.

Young, Y.L. and Kinnas, S.A., “Performance Prediction of Surface-Piercing Propellers,” Journal of Ship Research, 2004, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 288-304, December 2004.

Lee, H. and Kinnas, S.A., “Application of BEM in the Prediction of Unsteady Blade Sheet and Developed Tip Vortex Cavitation on Marine Propellers,” Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 15-30, March 2004 .