Dr. Georgios Zarafonitis
Associate Professor, School of Naval Architecture, NTUAWP Leader 2
- School of Naval Architecture of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. Ship & Sea Study. Transport, Ship Study Laboratory, Naval Building, Zografou Complex, Building C, 2nd floor, office 2.13
- zar@deslab.ntua.gr
- +30 210 7722264
- +30 210 7721408
- www.naval.ntua.gr
Work Packages / Deliverables: WP2, WP5 / D2.1, D2.2, D5.1, D5.2, D5.3
Other Information
- Diploma of Naval Engineer, NTUA (1984).
- Doctoral Diploma: NTUA, Department of Naval Mechanical Engineering, entitled "Secondary theory of movements and loads of three-dimensional bodies of general form in waves" (1985-1990).
Research interests:
Ship design and design, development of optimization methods for ship design, ship security, marine hydrodynamics applications in ship design and ship design.
Research experience:
Participation in 21 research projects. Author or co-author of more than 70 scientific papers in journals and international conferences in full text.
Selected recent scientific publications:
Zaraphonitis, G., Samuelides, M.S., “Survivability of grounded and damaged ships”, Proc. Int. Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships, ICCGS 2010, June 2010, Helsinki (Finland).
Liu, S., Papanikolaou A., Zaraphonitis, G., “Prediction of added resistance of ships in waves”, Ocean Engineering, vol. 38, pp. 641-650, 2011.
Harries, S., Tillig, F., Wilken, M., Zaraphonitis, G., “An Integrated Approach for Simulation in the Early Ship Design of a Tanker”, Proc. 10th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications (COMPIT), May 2011, Berlin (Germany).
Papanikolaou, A., Hamann, R., Byung Suk Lee, Mains, C., Olufsen, O., Vassalos, D., Zaraphonitis, G., “GOALDS—Goal Based Damage Ship Stability and Safety Standards”, Journal of Accidents Analysis and Prevention, volume 60, pp. 353 – 365, DOI information: >10.1016/j.aap.2013.04.006, 2013.
Papanikolaou, A., Hamann, R., Byung Suk Lee, Mains, C., Olufsen, O., Tvedt, E., Vassalos, D., Zaraphonitis, G., “GOALDS – Goal Based Damage Stability of Passenger Ships”, SNAME 2013 Annual Meeting, Nov. 2013, Bellevue (USA). Archival paper, selected for publication in the 2013SNAME Transactions.
Bulian, G., Lindroth, D., Ruponen, P., Zaraphonitis, G., “Probabilistic Assessment of survivability in case of grounding: development and testing of a direct non-zonal approach”, Special Issue of the Ocean Engineering Journal dedicated to Stability and Safety of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, OceanEng.(2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2016.02.018.