Thanos Papanicolaou
Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty Fellow of Engineering
Associate Professor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Program Coordinator for Hydraulics/Water Resources
athanasios-papanicolaou@uiowa.edu
(319) 335-6448
323B C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1585
Education:
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1997
- M.S., Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1993
- Five-Year Degree, Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 1990
Teaching Interests:
- Hydrodynamics
- Sediment transport
- Environmental fluid mechanics
- Experimental hydraulics
Research:
- Sediment transport issues of cohesive and non-cohesive sediments
- Coupling of upland watershed processes and instream processes
- Sediment-flow interactions
- Bedform formation and migration
- Fluidization phenomena in marine sediments
- Sediment fingerprinting methods
- Geomorphology and numerical sediment transport tools