CURRICULUM VITAE Dr-Ing DIMITRIOS E. MAZARAKOS
Date of Birth: November 6th, 1982 Place of Birth: Tripolis, Arcadia, Greece, Europe E-mail: [email protected]/ [email protected] Mobile number: +30 6973 473375, +30 6974 603960 Nationality: Hellenic Marital Status: Single Military Service: Fulfilled
EDUCATION
2006-2012 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS/ MECHANICAL & AERONAUTICS DEP. PhD in Subsea Engineering “Design, Analysis and Optimization of a subsea structure for oil recovery from shipwrecks.” Hydrodynamic analysis using ANSYS FLUENT Handmade structural calculations and structural analysis using MSc Nastran/Patran and ABAQUS Probabilistic analysis of Sea currents using Monte Carlo Method Hydro elastic effects using analytical calculations and water tunnel measurements.
2000-2005 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS/ MECHANICAL & AERONAUTICS DEP. Dipl. & M.Eng. .in Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering. (7.60/ Very Good) Thesis: “Space Shuttle’s Aerothermodynamic and trajectory analysis during reentry.” Prediction of Space Shuttle’s Aerodynamic coefficients during Re-entry path. Numerical method for the Aerodynamic Coefficients at Hypersonic Speeds. Thermal loads prediction during Reentry. Numerical method for the Temperature distribution through the thickness of the thermal shield. Orbital Analysis.
2000 HIGH SCHOOL, TRIPOLIS,( EXCELLENT 18.6/20)
AWARDS & CONTESTS
2015: Air Cargo Challenge 2015, Design Build and Fly an RC Cargo Aircraft. Team ATLAS V. Rank: 8th at Flight Contest and 2nd Prize for the Innovative Design of ATLAS V.
2015: VI-Grade Virtual Formula, Optimizing a Formula Race Car using the VI-CarRealTime Software, UPat Python Racing Team. Rank 5th.
2013: Air Cargo Challenge 2013, Design Build and Fly an RC Cargo Aircraft. Team ATLAS 2013. Rank: 11th
2011: Airbus Fly Your Ideas Challenge, Team University of Patras BeyondResearch, Completing Round 2 of the 2011 Airbus Fly Your Ideas Challenge Award. Project: Electromechanical Design of an energy recovery system from Aircraft’s landing system. Duties: Electrical circuit design and system’s energy management relative to aircraft functions.
2011: Air Cargo Challenge 2011, Design Build and Fly an RC Cargo Aircraft. Team ATLAS III. Rank: 16th
2009: Young Aerospace Engineer of the Year 2009 Technology and Innovation Award”, Atlas Project: Development of a Radio- Controlled Full Composite Aircraft, AEROSPACE 09, Munich, Germany. Duties: Team ATLAS I, Design Chief Engineer.
2009: Air Cargo Challenge 2009, Design Build and Fly an RC Cargo Aircraft. Team ATLAS II. Rank: 6th
2008: “1st award in design of a solar vehicle”, SUN-LIFE-Greece-Italy 2008, Athens, Greece. Project: Design of HERMES II Solar Car. Duties: Chief Aerodynamicist.
2007: Air Cargo Challenge 2007, Design Build and Fly an RC Cargo Aircraft. Team ATLAS I. Rank: 8th
SEMINARS
21/11/2011-16/12/2011: Aircraft and Helicopter Technician Certificate, Technical Training Department, 307 Support Battalion, 1st Army Aviation Brigade, Stefanovikeio Military Base.
WORK EXPERIENCE
09/2012 – Today UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS- APPLIED MECHANICS LABORATORY (AML) -Experienced Research Associate and Executive Engineer
Projects:
Proof of Concept Consultancy Services in MIFIS Project: System Design specifications of an underwater structure for hydrate mining/intervention and offshore Blow-out Recovery. Duties: Principal System Designer and Collaborator/Advisor of Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy. Design of the System’s Components Design Specifications and structural requirements of the System’s Components Design and Analysis of the Presso-Gravitational Buffer Bell Separator: An innovative structure for multiphase mixture separation under the sea surface (300 meters depth). Reporting to JRC’s Officer and AML’s Director for the progress.
Large Stable Deployable Structure for Future Space Science Missions (LAGARD). Duties: Technical Chief Engineer,Work Package Manager and External Collaborator/Advisor in ADAMANT Composites Ltd. Technical coordination of the AML’s Work Package. Creating mathematical models for the kinematics and dynamics of the truss structure. Designing Testing Procedures for the Truss Verification. Performing Structural calculations and Finite Element Analysis for the Testing Equipment Supervising the Kinematic models in MSc ADAMS Supervising the Ground Support Equipment selection Supervising the Mechanical Design calculations for the Motorization System Manage the Work Package’s expenses Reporting to the AML Director for the progress. Reporting to the System’s Engineer for the progress.
Conceptual and Preliminary design of a Future aircraft following the carrier-pod concept (FANTASSY). Duties: Project Engineer & Technical Coordinator, NLR and PIAGGIO External Advisor: Subsonic aerodynamics numerical code Preliminary Weight estimation Dynamic stability & Control analysis Structural Calculations Aircraft Evacuation Methods Aircraft new Assembly/ Disassembly methods Writing Technical Documents Guide and Support the Consortium Members in Aircraft Design Procedure.
Innovative smart composite moulds for cost-effective manufacturing of plastic and composite components (COEUS-TITAN). Duties: Thermostructural Engineer Developing a Finite Element Model in MSc NASTRAN/PATRAN for the composite mould’s structural and Thermal Response. Reporting to Project Engineer for the Progress.
10/2014 - 4/2015 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS- Python Virtual Racing Team Race Engineer. Optimizing a Virtual Formula Student Car using the VI-Grade Software Duties: Performing analytical and handmade calculations for the Race Track Decisions on Vehicle Set up (CoG arrangement, ground vehicle stability (understeer/oversteer, toe etc.) Tire engineer, estimating the maximum vertical load on tires for maximum performance Lead the Team, making suggestions to the brakes, suspensions, gear box design engineers.
03/2014 – 07/2014 OMEGA TRAINING CENTER- AVIATION ACADEMY -Theoretical Knowledge Instructor & Examiner. Duties: Training of Aircraft Maintenance Technician students. Courses on EASA Module 8: Basic Aerodynamics Courses on EASA Module 11:Turbine Airplane Aerodynamics, structures and systems EASA Examination on Module 8
11/2013 – Today UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS- ATLAS GROUP (http://atlasteamupat.weebly.com) -General Director (General Head of ATLAS Team and Technical Director of ATLAS Group), ATLAS Group founder. Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) development project. Duties:
Design and Development of ATLAS V prototype Conceptual Design of ATLAS V aircraft (Bi-plane Configuration) Ground Structural Tests and calculations’ validation Flight Test Engineer: ATLAS V Flight Program establishment
Introduce changes from ATLAS IV to ATLAS IVB-no aileron aircraft Upgrade the flying qualities from Stable to Robust. Methods for aircraft’s structural weight reduction.
Introduce the Design of X1-ATLAS Aircraft’s Functional Specifications Aerodynamic design of ATLAS-MAK Airfoil Aerodynamic design of high thrust propellers Automatic Control Systems: Introduction to Autonomous flight systems Introductory lessons in Aircraft Design Advise young Engineers Group Financial Management/ Sponsorships
09/2012 – 08/2013 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS- ATLAS 2013 TEAM (www.atlasteam.mech.upatras.gr) -Technical Director, Team ATLAS IV. Design, Buid and Fly an Unmanned Air Vehicle for Air Cargo Challenge Competition in Lisboa. Portugal. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuqOEDaP44s) Duties: Conceptual and Preliminary design, Aircraft stability and (linear& non-linear) control, static tests procedures, flight tests, managing team’s staff and budget, mentoring junior engineers in aerodynamics, structural analysis ,aeroelasticity FEA,CFD and manufacturing methods, writing technical documents.
-Team Manager, Team ATLAS IIIB. Improve the flight characteristics of an Unmanned Air Vehicle for Air Cargo Challenge Competition in Lisboa. Portugal. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-bnwh9aM0Q) Duties: Flight tests, managing team’s staff and budget, mentoring junior engineers in aerodynamics, structural analysis ,aeroelasticity FEA,CFD and manufacturing methods.
10/2011 – 06/2012 MILITARY SERVICE 1st Army Aviation Brigade/ 307th Support Battalion “Aircraft engineer in Technical Group.” Improve Maintenance Procedures AH-64 Apache Helicopter’s fuselage Inspector Writing Technical Documents
11/2010 - 8/2011 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS- ATLAS III TEAM Project Consultant/ Flight Test Engineer. Design, Build and Fly an Unmanned Air Vehicle for Air Cargo Challenge Competition in Stuttgart, Germany. Duties: Managing team’s staff and budget, mentoring junior engineers in aerodynamics, structural analysis, FEA and CFD, introduce the flight test analysis.
11/2009 - 8/2011 COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND PRESS “DIOPHANTUS” Project FP7-218513: “Autonomous Surveillance in Public transport Infrastructure Systems” (ASPIS) Duties: Thermostructural Engineer. Structural analysis of the Electronics box using MSc Nastran/Patran, Thermal management of the Electronics box using CFD methods and Experimental measurements. Writing Technical Documents
11/2008 - 9/2009 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS- ATLAS II TEAM Technical Manager. Design, Build and Fly an Unmanned Air Vehicle for Air Cargo Challenge Competition in Lisboa. Portugal. Duties: Aircraft stability and Linear control, static tests procedures, flight tests, managing team’s staff and budget, writing technical documents
10/2008 - 8/2010 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS Ballast Water Treatment. Hydraulic design and construction of an experimental structure for the ballast water treatment of cargo ships. Duties: High-Pressure Engineer, External Collaborator/Advisor of NAFTOSOL S.A & Deputy Project Manager. Numerical method for hydraulic calculations in a closed system. Hydraulic losses on hydrocyclone, filters, UV chamber and ultrasonic chamber. Construction of the experimental structure. Pressure Test. Writing technical documents
10/2007 - 9/2008 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS- HERMES II Solar Team Solar Car Design for the SUN-LIFE competition Duties: Chief Aerodynamicist, Preliminary Aerodynamic design, 2d CFD models, Ground Vehicle Dynamics.Writing Technical Documents
10/2006 - 9/2007 UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS- ATLAS TEAM -Design Chief Engineer, ATLAS Team Co-Founder and Assistant Manager. Design, Build and Fly an Unmanned Air Vehicle for Air Cargo Challenge Competition in Lisboa. Portugal. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To9P60LDhGc) Duties: Design Group Leader, Conceptual and Preliminary design, Aircraft stability and linear control, Aircraft detail design, CFD, FEA, tutoring young engineers and managing team’s budget.
11/2005 - 7/2008 INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE Project FP6-516360: “Double Inverted Funnel for the Intervention on Ship wrecks” (DIFIS), Duties: Research Engineer. Functional Specifications and Operational requirements of a subsea structure, ocean waves global statistics processing in order to estimate the Hydrodynamic loads, Structural handmade calculations.
06/2004 - 08/2004 PUBLIC POWER CORPORATION S.A. Technical Student.
06/2003 - 08/2003 HELLENIC DEFENCE SYSTEMS S.A. Technical Student.
LANGUAGES
Greek (Native), English (Fluent), French (Basic), Spanish (Basic).
COMPUTER SKILLS
GENERAL USE:Windows, Origin, MS Office and Visio, ENGINEEIRING DESIGN: AutoCAD, Solidworks, FLUID MECHANICS: ANSYS FLUENT and ANSYS CFX, Gambit, Phoenics, FINITE ELEMENTS: MSc Patran/Nastran, ABAQUS, ANSYS Multiphysics AIRCRAFT DESIGN: XFLR, PanAir, CEASIOM. PROGRAMMING: Matlab
JOURNAL PAPERS
1. D.Mazarakos, F. Andritsos and V. Kostopoulos, “Recovery of Oil-Pollutant from Shipwrecks: A new proposal based on the Double Inverted Funnel concept. Description and Design Methodology”, International Journal of Structural Integrity, 2012.
2. D. Mazarakos, D. E. Vlachos and V. Kostopoulos, “Structural Analysis of a Steel Double Hull Underwater Tank, Intended for Oil Recovery from Shipwrecks”, International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology (IJCAET), 2012.
3. A. Ampatzoglou, S. Tsantzalis, D. E. Mazarakos and V. Kostopoulos,’’ 3D Printed frame for CubeSat applications for Low-Earth orbit mission’’, International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology (IJCAET), 2015.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
1. D. Mazarakos, Ath. Kotzakolios and V. Kostopoulos, Ice Impact analysis of an Metallic and Composite underwater structure dedicated to the intervention and remediation of trapped pollutant in tanker wrecks, 7th International ASRANet Colloquium, 17-20 August 2014, Glasgow, UK.. 2. D.Mazarakos, D. Sikoutris, A. Kotzakolios, V. Kostopoulos, “Aerodynamic and Structural Investigation of a full composite radio-controlled aircraft”, 7th GRACM, 30 June-2 July 2011, Athens, GR. 3. D.Mazarakos and V. Kostopoulos, “Numerical investigation of the flow field around a fully submerged oil storage tank. Comparison against experimental and analytic results.”, 9th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, 12-14 July 2010, Limassol, Cyprus. 4. D. Mazarakos, Ath. Kotzakolios, V. Kostopoulos and F. Andritsos. Ice loading analysis of an underwater structure dedicated to the intervention and remediation of trapped pollutant in tanker wrecks, 5th International ASRANet Colloquium, 14-16 June 2010, Edinburgh, UK. 5. D. Mazarakos, Christos Derdas and V. Kostopoulos. Failure Event Analysis and Optimisation of a Submerged Underwater Critical Structure against Non Deterministic Current Loading Conditions with the use of the Finite Element Method, 4th International ASRANet Colloquium, 25-27 June 2008, Athens, GR. 6. J. L. Cozijn , F.Andritsos ,P. A. Konstantinopoulos, K. J. Charatsis, C. Derdas, D.Mazarakos, V. Kostopoulos, D. Hoornstra, A. Arnedo Pena, L. Candini, S. Ametler, A. Fidani, A.Castex, M. Delauze, J. F Drogou, J. P .Lévèque, P. Davies, C. Montandon, F. Geffard, F. Pecot, V. Estrada . Recovery of Oil Trapped in Ship-Wrecks: the DIFIS Concept, IOSC 2008. 7. Dimitrios E. Mazarakos, Dimitrios E. Sikoutris, Elias E. Panagiotopoulos,Dionissios P. Margaris and Dimitrios G. Papanikas . Aerothermodynamic analysis of the Space Shuttle orbiter in Hypersonic Flight, 2nd IC-SCCE, 5-8 July, Athens, GR. 8. Dimitrios E. Mazarakos, Dimitrios E. Sikoutris, Elias E. Panagiotopoulos,Dionissios P. Margaris and Dimitrios G. Papanikas . Analytical Calculations of Spacecrafts Hypersonic Aerodynamic Characteristics based on Experimental Data, 14th AIAA, 6-9 November 2006, Canberra, Australia. 9. Dimitrios E. Mazarakos, Dimitrios E. Sikoutris, Elias E. Panagiotopoulos,Dionissios P. Margaris and Dimitrios G. Papanikas . Stagnation Heat Transfer and Through-thickness Temperature Profile Calculation at Hypersonic Speeds, 14th AIAA, 6-9 November 2006, Canberra, Australia.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecturing in out of University Tuition Centres: Statics, Strength of materials, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Aircraft Systems, Aircraft Structures, Flight Control Systems, and Electrical Circuits & Motors, heat engines, propulsion systems.
ACTIVITIES Reading, Poetry, Running, non- professional Football player (Defensive/Attacking Midfielder), PC strategy games and board games, RC model aircraft pilot, shooting, hunting, Boxing.