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  1. Reacting condensed phase explosives in direct contact

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, March 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis, Riccardo Demattè

  2. Full-Field Three-Dimensional Simulation of Sonic Boom Emanating from Complex Geometries

    Article • June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  3. A Multi-physics Methodology for Four States of Matter

    Article • Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  4. An embedded boundary approach for efficient simulations of viscoplastic fluids in three dimensions

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  5. Meso-resolved simulations of shock-to-detonation transition in nitromethane with air-filled cavities

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, June 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Louisa Michael, Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  6. Numerical modelling of detonation initiation via shock interaction with multiple flame kernels

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  7. Highly parallelisable simulations of time-dependent viscoplastic fluid flow with structured adaptive mesh refinement

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  8. Effect of spatial inhomogeneities on detonation propagation with yielding confinement

    Article • Shock Waves, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  9. A hybrid formulation for the numerical simulation of condensed phase explosives

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Louisa Michael, Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  10. Simulating geometrically complex blast scenarios

    Article • Defence Technology, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  11. Three-dimensional cut-cell modelling for high-resolution atmospheric simulations

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  12. A Cartesian Cut-Cell Approach for Modelling Air and Water Droplet Flow

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  13. Cartesian Cut-Cell and GFM Approaches to Free-Surface and Moving Boundary Interaction

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Louisa Michael, Paul Bennett, Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  14. Investigation of detonation velocity in heterogeneous explosive system using the reactive Burgers’ analog

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  15. Relativistic Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion: A parametric study

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, October 2015, EDP Sciences

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  16. An experimentally-based in-situ combustion model with adaptive meshing

    Article • Combustion and Flame, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  17. Assessment of the MUSTA approach for numerical relativistic hydrodynamics

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, March 2015, EDP Sciences

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  18. General relativistic hydrodynamics on overlapping curvilinear grids

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, March 2015, EDP Sciences

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  19. Adaptive mesh refinement for compressible thermal flow in porous media

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  20. GPU-based simulation of the two-dimensional unstable structure of gaseous oblique detonations

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  21. Numerical modelling of underwater detonation of non-ideal condensed-phase explosives

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  22. High resolution GPU-based flow simulation of the gaseous methane-oxygen detonation structure

    Article • Journal of Visualization, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  23. An Eulerian algorithm for coupled simulations of elastoplastic-solids and condensed-phase explosives

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  24. Multi-phase simulation of ammonium nitrate emulsion detonations

    Article • Combustion and Flame, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  25. The propagation of detonation waves in non-ideal condensed-phase explosives confined by high sound-speed materials

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  26. Adaptive Osher-type scheme for the Euler equations with highly nonlinear equations of state

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  27. An efficient shock capturing scheme for multicomponent multiphase thermal flow in porous media

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, July 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  28. Experimental and theoretical study of the combustion of n-triacontane in porous media

    Article • Fuel, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  29. The growth of fractal dimension of an interface evolution from the interaction of a shock wave with a rectangular block of SF6

    Article • Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  30. Multiphase Multicomponent Thermal Models and Their Application to In-situ Combustion

    Article • April 2011, EAGE Publications

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  31. Mesh generation and mesh adaptation for large-scale Earth-system modelling

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, November 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  32. Well-balanced compressible cut-cell simulation of atmospheric flow

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, November 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  33. Numerical simulation of detonation structures using a thermodynamically consistent and fully conservative reactive flow model for multi-component computations

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, April 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  34. Analysis of implicit LES methods

    Article • Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, December 2008, Mathematical Sciences Publishers

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  35. Developing the next-generation climate system models: challenges and achievements

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, December 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  36. The mathematical structure of multiphase thermal models of flow in porous media

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, November 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  37. Richtmyer-Meshkov instability induced by the interaction of a shock wave with a rectangular block of SF6

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  38. Head-on Collision of a Detonation with a Planar Shock Wave

    Article • Shock Waves, June 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  39. Numerical investigation of the instability for one-dimensional Chapman–Jouguet detonations with chain-branching kinetics

    Article • Combustion Theory and Modelling, August 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  40. Nonlinear dynamics and chaos analysis of one-dimensional pulsating detonations

    Article • Combustion Theory and Modelling, February 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  41. Discretization of Semiconductor Device Problems (II)

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  42. Head-on collision of a detonation with a planar shock wave

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  43. Numerical modelling of two-dimensional and axisymmetric gravity currents

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, January 2005, Wiley

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  44. A Three-Dimensional, Adaptive, Godunov-Type Model for Global Atmospheric Flows

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, August 2003, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  45. A condensed-mass advection based model for the simulation of liquid polar stratospheric clouds

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, January 2003, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  46. A condensed-mass advection based model for the simulation of liquid polar stratospheric clouds

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, June 2002, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  47. Assessment of a High Resolution Centered Scheme for the Solution of Hydrodynamical Semiconductor Equations

    Article • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, January 2001, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  48. A Large Timestep Godunov-Type Model of Global Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  49. Moment equations for carrier transport in semiconductors

    Article • September 2000, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  50. Remarks on diffusionless combustion

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, December 1999, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  51. Flamelet-vortex interaction and the Gibson scale

    Article • Combustion and Flame, May 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  52. The wrong kind of snow: Polar stratospheric clouds and ozone depletion

    Article • Journal of Aerosol Science, March 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  53. Numerical studies of the evolution of detonations

    Article • Mathematical and Computer Modelling, October 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  54. Accumulating sequence of ignitions from a propagating pulse,

    Article • Combustion and Flame, February 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

  55. AMR for global atmospheric modelling

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis