Stathis Tingas
stathis tingas

Dr Stathis Tingas

Lecturer

 0131 455 2304

  E.Tingas@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Stathis Tingas received a first degree (BScH) in Aeronautical Science from the Hellenic Air Force Academy in Greece in 2005 and a MSc and a PhD in Mechanics from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Before his current appointment, he was an Aircraft Engineer with specialty in jet engines at the Hellenic Air Force (2005-2016), a postdoctoral research associate at KAUST (2016-2019) and a Lecturer in Engineering and Aviation at Perth College UHI (2019-2020).

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC) and the Scottish Government (SG) Climate Change Policy & Implementation Unit Workshop on Climate Change Plan
  • Member of CIHT's Steering Group on EV Infrastructure policy
  • U!REKA working group member on research cooperation (Sustainable Built/Urban Environment: sustainable construction and materials, energy, digital twinning, transport and logistics)

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Chair and Member of the Organising committee - 7th Annual Electric Vehicle Event
  • Chair and Member of the Organising committee - The coming of age of renewable energy

 

Editorial Activity

  • Guest Editor for Frontiers in Fuels
  • Editorial board member of Energy Engineering, (Tech Science Press)
  • Guest Editor for Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
  • Guest Editor for Energies MDPI
  • Hydrogen for Future Thermal Engines - Springer

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Examiner - University of West of Scotland
  • External Examiner - University of East London
  • External Examiner - University of Limerick

 

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • Panel member for EPSRC's New Horizons call (Materials and Mechanical Engineering Panel)

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Reviewer for Carnegie's Trust Vacation Scholarship scheme
  • Grant reviewer for the EPSRC

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Organiser of the Solar/Wind Energy Workshop
  • Organiser of the Electic Vehicle Workshop

 

Reviewing

  • Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier
  • Journal Reviewer: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Elsevier
  • Journal Reviewer: Combustion Science and Technology, Taylor and Francis
  • Journal Reviewer: Combustion Theory and Modelling, Taylor and Francis
  • Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, SAGE Journals
  • Journal Reviewer: Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Elsevier
  • Journal Reviewer: AIP Advances
  • Journal Reviewer: Journal of Energy Engineering, ASCE
  • Journal Reviewer: Combustion and Flame, Elsevier
  • Journal Reviewer: Fuel, Elsevier

 

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Computational investigation of the chemical dynamics in detonation development at SI engine conditions

Presentation / Conference
Dimitrova, I. D., Sanal, S., Bau Luong, M., Tingas, S., & Im, H. G. (2021, November)
Computational investigation of the chemical dynamics in detonation development at SI engine conditions. Paper presented at 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Phoenix, Arizona
This study employs algorithmic tools from the computational singular perturbation (CSP) approach and statistics to investigate detonation development in SI engines using 2D si...

Identification of Key Processes and Periods in a Model of Human Brain Energy Metabolism by Algorithmic Decomposition with Computational Singular Perturbation

Presentation / Conference
Patsatzis, D., Tingas, S., Sarathy, M., Goussis, D., & Jolivet, R. (2021, July)
Identification of Key Processes and Periods in a Model of Human Brain Energy Metabolism by Algorithmic Decomposition with Computational Singular Perturbation. Paper presented at XV European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Online
Energetic considerations play a crucial role in brain function and disease. The study of brainenergy metabolism is, however, rendered difficult by a relative lack of e...

Statistics of local and global flame speed and structure for highly turbulent H2/air premixed flames

Journal Article
Song, W., Hernández Pérez, F. E., Tingas, E., & Im, H. G. (2021)
Statistics of local and global flame speed and structure for highly turbulent H2/air premixed flames. Combustion and Flame, 232, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111523
A statistical analysis is conducted for turbulent hydrogen-air premixed flames at a range of Karlovitz numbers up to 1,126 by direct numerical simulations (DNS) with detailed ...

Potential for Carbon-Neutral Advanced Biofuels in UK Road Transport

Journal Article
King, R., & Tingas, E. (2021)
Potential for Carbon-Neutral Advanced Biofuels in UK Road Transport. Journal of Energy Engineering, 147(4), 04021025. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28asce%29ey.1943-7897.0000775
As a result of anthropocentric climate change, there is an urgent need to decarbonize the supply of energy. Organic biomass, referred to as feedstock, can be converted into bi...

Computational analysis of the effect of hydrogen peroxide addition on premixed laminar hydrogen/air flames

Journal Article
Tingas, E. (2021)
Computational analysis of the effect of hydrogen peroxide addition on premixed laminar hydrogen/air flames. Fuel, 302, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121081
In the current work, the effect of H2O2 addition on the flame structure, laminar flame speed and NOx emissions is investigated in the context of 1D laminar premixed H2/air fla...

The chemical dynamics of hydrogen/hydrogen peroxide blends diluted with steam at compression ignition relevant conditions

Journal Article
Tingas, E. (2021)
The chemical dynamics of hydrogen/hydrogen peroxide blends diluted with steam at compression ignition relevant conditions. Fuel, 296, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.120594
In the current work, the use of hydrogen peroxide as an additive to hydrogen/air mixtures is proposed and explored computationally, in conditions relevant to compression ignit...

Dynamics Analysis of a Jet-Fuel Surrogate and Development of a Skeletal Mechanism for Computational Fluid Dynamic Applications

Journal Article
Sharmin, N., & Tingas, E. (2020)
Dynamics Analysis of a Jet-Fuel Surrogate and Development of a Skeletal Mechanism for Computational Fluid Dynamic Applications. Journal of Energy Engineering, 146(6), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28asce%29ey.1943-7897.0000714
The autoignition dynamics of a three-component surrogate jet fuel (66.2% n-dodecane, 15.8% n-proplylbenzene, 18.0% 1,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane) suitable for usage as Jet A-1 an...

Computational Singular Perturbation Method and Tangential Stretching Rate Analysis of Large Scale Simulations of Reactive Flows: Feature Tracking, Time Scale Characterization, and Cause/Effect Identification. Part 2, Analyses of Ignition Systems, Laminar and Turbulent Flames

Book Chapter
Valorani, M., Creta, F., Ciottoli, P. P., Malpica Galassi, R., Goussis, D. A., Najm, H. N., …Grenga, T. (2020)
Computational Singular Perturbation Method and Tangential Stretching Rate Analysis of Large Scale Simulations of Reactive Flows: Feature Tracking, Time Scale Characterization, and Cause/Effect Identification. Part 2, Analyses of Ignition Systems, Laminar and Turbulent Flames. In A. Attili, & H. Pitsch (Eds.), Data Analysis for Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion: From Equation-Based Analysis to Machine Learning (65-88). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44718-2_4
Chapter 3 summarized the highlights of the concepts behind the CSP method and the TSR analysis. In this chapter, we will discuss a few applications of these techniques.

Computational Singular Perturbation Method and Tangential Stretching Rate Analysis of Large Scale Simulations of Reactive Flows: Feature Tracking, Time Scale Characterization, and Cause/Effect Identification. Part 1, Basic Concepts

Book Chapter
Valorani, M., Creta, F., Ciottoli, P. P., Malpica Galassi, R., Goussis, D. A., Najm, H. N., …Grenga, T. (2020)
Computational Singular Perturbation Method and Tangential Stretching Rate Analysis of Large Scale Simulations of Reactive Flows: Feature Tracking, Time Scale Characterization, and Cause/Effect Identification. Part 1, Basic Concepts. In H. Pitsch, & A. Attili (Eds.), Data Analysis for Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion (43-64). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44718-2_3
This chapter provides a review of the basic ideas at the core of the Computational Singular Perturbation (CSP) method and the Tangential Stretching Rate (TSR) analysis. It inc...

Screening gas‐phase chemical kinetic models: Collision limit compliance and ultrafast timescales

Journal Article
Yalamanchi, K. K., Tingas, E., Im, H. G., & Sarathy, S. M. (2020)
Screening gas‐phase chemical kinetic models: Collision limit compliance and ultrafast timescales. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 52(9), 599-610. https://doi.org/10.1002/kin.21373
Detailed gas‐phase chemical kinetic models are widely used in combustion research, and many new mechanisms for different fuels and reacting conditions are developed each year....

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