E-mail: kinnas@mail.utexas.edu  

B.S., National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1981
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ocean Engineering, 1985

Dr. Kinnas' expertise is in the area of computational hydrodynamics with applications on the design of ocean vehicles and off-shore structures. In particular, his research has been focused on the prediction of unsteady sheet and tip vortex cavitation, design of high-speed propulsors, free-surface entry, inflow/propulsor interaction, and wave/body interaction. For additional information, see Dr. Kinnas' home page. 

• Kinnas, S.A. "A Note on Bernoulli Equation for Propeller Flows: The Effective Pressure, " Journal of Ship Research, December 2006 (in print)

• Kinnas , S.A. , Lee, H., Gu, H., and Deng, Y.,"Prediction of Performance and Design via Optimization of Ducted Propellers Subject to Non-axisymmetric Inflows", Trans. Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Vol. 113, 2005.

  Tip cavitation on a model ship propeller

• Lee, H. and Kinnas, S.A., “A BEM for the Modeling of Unsteady Propeller Sheet Cavitation inside of a Cavitation Tunnel,” Journal of Computational Mechanics, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 41-51, December 2005 (published online, July 2005).

• Lee, H. and Kinnas, S.A., “Fully Unsteady Wake Alignment for Propellers in Non-axisymmetric Flows,” Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 176-190, September 2005.

• Young, Y.L. and Kinnas, S.A., “Performance Prediction of Surface-Piercing Propellers,” Journal of Ship Research, 2004, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 288-304, December 2004.

• Lee, H. and Kinnas, S.A., “Application of BEM in the Prediction of Unsteady Blade Sheet and Developed Tip Vortex Cavitation on Marine Propellers,” Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 15-30, March 2004 .