Spyros A. Kinnas, Ph.D.
Professor - Hudson Matlock Professor in Civil Engineering- Associate Director OTRC

Office: ECJ 8.604
Phone: (512) 475-7969
Fax: (512) 471-5870
Email: kinnas@mail.utexas.edu
UT Mail: C1786
My Website: http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/kinnas/home.html

Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-EWRE
301 E. Dean Keeton St. Stop C1786
Austin, TX 78712-1173

Area(s) of Expertise:
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Ocean Engineering

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ocean Engineering, 1985
B.S., Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1981

Technical Interests:
Ocean and offshore engineering; computational hydrodynamics; cavitation; separated flows; wave/body interaction; design of marine propulsors and tidal turbines

Selected Publications:

Kinnas, S.A., Xu, W., Yu, Y.-H., and He, L., "Computational Methods for the Design and Prediction of Performance of Tidal Turbines", Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Vol. 134, No.1, 2012 (in print).

Pan, Y. and Kinnas, S.A., "A viscous/inviscid interactive approach for the prediction of performance of hydrofoils and propellers with non-zero trailing edge thickness", Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 55, No.1, March 2011, pp. 45-63.

Xu, W. and Kinnas, S.A., "Performance Prediction and Design of Marine Current Turbines in the Presence of Cavitation", Transactions 2010, Vol. 118, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).

Vinayan, V. and Kinnas, S.A. "A numerical nonlinear analysis of two-dimensional ventilating entry of surface-piercing hydrofoils with effects of gravity", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2010, Vol. 658, pp. 383-408.

Yu, Y.-H. and Kinnas, S.A., "Roll Response of Various Hull Sectional Shapes Using a Navier-Stokes Solver", International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 46-51

Sun, H. and Kinnas, S.A., "Performance prediction of cavitating water-jet propulsors using a Viscous-inviscid interactive method," Transactions, SNAME (Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers), Vol. 116, pp. 166-181, 2008

Vinayan, V. and Kinnas, S.A., "Numerical Modeling of Surface Piercing Hydrofoils and Propellers", Twenty-seventh Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, October 5-10, 2008, Seoul, Korea.