OTRC Principal Investigator Publication Listing

Principal Investigator:

Spyros Kinnas

Journal Articles, Reports and Conference Papers

Kinnas, S.A., Yu, Y.-H., and Vinayan, V., "Prediction of Flows around FPSO Hulls in Roll Using an Unsteady Navier-Stokes Solver”, The 16th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE), San Francisco, California, May 28-June 2, 2006, pp384-393.

Kinnas, S.A., Vinayan, V, A BEM for the propagation of Nonlinear Free-surface waves, BeTeQ’05, 6th International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, Montreal, Canada, July 2005.

Vinayan, V., Kinnas, S.A., Yu, Y.-H., Modeling of the Flow Around FPSO Hull Sections to Roll Motions: Effects of Non-linear Boundary Conditions, OMAE 2005.

Yu, Y.-H., Kinnas, S.A., Vinayan, V., Kacham, K., Modeling of Flow around FPSO Hull Sections Subject to Roll Motions: Effect of the Separated Flow around Bilge Keels, ISOPE 2005.

Kinnas, S.A., Yu, Y-H, Kacham, B. and Lee, H.S., “A model of the flow around bilge keels of FPSO hull sections subject to roll motions”, Proceedings of the 12th Offshore Symposium, Texas section of the SNAME, February, 2003, Houston, Texas

Kinnas, S.A., Yu, Y-H, Lee, H.S., and Kakar, K., “Modeling of Oscillating Flow Past a Vertical Plate”, ISOPE, May, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii

“Computational Modeling of FPSO Hull Roll Motions,” by Kakar and Kinnas, ISOPE 2003, Honololu, July 2003 (under preparation)

Modeling Roll Motions of an FPSO Hull using an Unsteady 2-D Euler solver, by K. Kakar, presented at the Joint MTS/SNAME Meeting at Texas A&M University, March 27, 2002

Real-time Visualization of Hull/3-D Waves Interaction, by A. Hariramasamy and S. Natarajan, presented at the Joint MTS/SNAME Meeting at Texas A&M University, March 27, 2002

Choi, J.K., Kinnas, S.A. (2001). "Prediction of Non-Axisymmetric Effective Wake by a Three-Dimensional Euler Solver," Journal of Ship Research, March, Vol. 45, pp.13-33.

Bal, S., Kinnas, S.A., Lee, H.S. (2001). "Numerical Analysis for 2-D and 3-D Cavitating Hydrofoils Under a Free Surface," Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 45, March. pp. 34-49.

Young, Y.L., Kinnas, S.A. (2001). "A BEM for the Prediction of Unsteady Midchord Face, and/or Back Propeller Cavitation," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 123, June. pp. 311-319.

Krishnaswamy, P., Andersen. P., Kinnas, S.A. (2001). "Re-entrant Jet Modeling for Partially Cavitating Two-dimensional Hydrofoils," CAV 2001, 4th International Symposium on Cavitation, Pasadena, California, June.

Lee, H., Kinnas, S.A. (2001). "Modeling of Unsteady Blade Sheet and Developed Tip Vortex Cavitation," CAV 2001, 4th International Symposium on Cavitation, Pasadena, California, June.

Young, Y.L., Kinnas, S.A. (2001). "Numerical Modeling of Supercavitating and Surface-piercing Propeller Flows," CAV 2001, 4th International Symposium on Cavitation, Pasadena, California, June.

Kinnas, S.A., Lee, H., Young, Y.L. (2001). "Boundary Element Techniques for the Prediction of Sheet and Developed Tip Vortex Cavitation," BETEQ/IABEM-2001 Symposium of the International Association for Boundary Element Methods, New Brunswick, New Jersey, July.

Kinnas, S.A., Choi, J.K., Kahar, K., Gu, H. (2001). "A General Computational Technique for the Prediction of Cavitation on Two-Stage Propulsors," 26th American Towing Tank Conference, Glen Clove, New York, July.

Kinnas, S.A. (2001). "Superactive 3-D Hydrofoils and Propellers: Prediction of Performance and Design: Lecture 2 in Special Course on Supercavitating Flows," von Karman Institute, Brussels, Belgium. February.

Kinnas, S.A. (2001). "Superactive 2-D Hydrofoils: Prediction of Performance and Design: Lecture 1 in Special Course on Supercavitating Flows," von Karman Institute, Brussels, Belgium, February.

Hardjanto, F.A. and Kinnas, S.A. " Fully Non-linear Simulations of Wave and Ship-Like Bodies Interaction," ETCE/OMAE2000 Joint Conference, February 14-17, 2000, New Orleans, LA.

Kinnas, S.A., Choi, J.K., Lee, H., Young, J., (2000). "Numerical Cavitation Tunnel," NCT'50; International Conference on Propeller Cavitation, Newcastle, UK, April.

Young, Y.L., Kinnas, S.A. (2000). "Modeling of Unsteady Sheet Cavities on Hydrofoils and Propellers,"  EM2000 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers, Austin, May.

Hardjanto, F.A., Kinnas, S.A., Roesset, J.M. (2000). "Numerical Simulations of Wave and Floating Body Interactions,"  EM2000, 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers, Austin. May.

Bal, S., Kinnas, S.A. (2000). "A BEM for Caviating Hydrofoils Under a Free-Surface," IABEM-2000 Symposium of the International Association for Boundary Element Methods, Brescia, Italy, July. pp. 13-17.

Choi, J.K., Kinnas, S.A. (2000). "An Unsteady 3-D Euler Solver Coupled with a Cavitating Propeller Analysis Method," 23rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Val de Reuil, France, September.

Choi, J.K., Kinnas, S.A. (2000). "Non-axisymmetric Effective Wake Prediction by Using an Unsteady Three-Dimensional Euler Solver," Propellers/Shafting 2000 Symposium, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Virgina Beach, Virginia, September.

Young, Y.L., Kinnas, S.A. (2000). "Prediction of Unsteady Performance of Surface-Piercing Propellers,"  Propellers/Shafting 2000 Symposium, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Virgina Beach, Virginia, September.

Hardjanto, F.A., Kinnas, S.A., and Roesset, J.M."Numerical Simulation of Three-dimensional Non-linear Water Waves", Boundary Element Techniques International Conference, July 6-8, 1999, London, UK.

Hardjanto, F.A., Kinnas, S.A., and Roesset, J.M."A Boundary Element Method for the Simulation of Non-linear Surface Waves," ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, June 13-16, 1999,  Baltimore, MD.

Hardjanto, F.A., Kinnas, S.A., Hart, H., and Kim, M.H., “Visualization of Wave Kinematics on the World Wide Web:An Interactive Instructional Tool,”  To be presented at the ASCE International Symposium on Ocean Wave Kinematics, Dynamics and Loads on Structures, April 30-May 1, 1998, Houston, TX

Thesis and Dissertations

Kacham, B. (2004) "Inviscid and Viscous 2D Unsteady Flow Solvers Applied to FPSO Hull Roll Motions", Masters Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, December.

Computational Modeling of FPSO Hull Roll Motions and Multi-Component Marine Propulsion Systems, by K. Kakar, Masters Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, expected August 2002 (under preparation).