Dipl.-Ing. Georgios Bletsos

Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory (M8)
Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4 (C)
D-21073 Hamburg
Room C5.021

Phone: +49 40 42878 6060

E-mail:george.bletsos(at)tuhh(dot)de

URL: http://www.tuhh.de/fds/staff/

Bio-Sketch

Schooling in Athens (Greece)

2013-2019

Diploma (Integrated Master) Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

2017-2018

Intern at Advanced Technology Department, Toyota Motor Europe, Belgium

2020-present

Research Assistant at Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory, Hamburg University of Technology

Major Areas of Interest & Expertise

Mathematical Optimization: Adjoint Techniques, Continuous Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis, Adjoint FSI formulations, Robust Optimization

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): Applications in hemodynamics, Blood damage modelling

Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI): Partitioned approach to adjoint shape optimization of coupled FSI problems

Student work

velos0.ltt.mech.ntua.gr/kgianna/diplomat/fp/bletsos.pdf

Publications

2024

Bletsos, G., Rung, T., Radtke, L.. Hemodynamics in arterial bypass graft anastomoses with varying cuff sizes and proximal flow paths: a fluid–structure interaction study. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2024. doi: 10.1080/10255842.2024.2310747

2023

Radtke, L., Bletsos, G., Kühl, N., Suchan, T., Rung, T., Düster, A., Welker, K. Parameter-Free Shape Optimization: Various Shape Updates for Engineering Applications. Aerospace. 2023; 10(9):751. doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10090751

Bletsos, G., Kühl, N., Rung, T.. Adjoint shape sensitivities of blood flows considering non-Newtonian properties. Int J Numer Meth Fluids. 2023; 95(11): 17911819. doi: 10.1002/fld.5227

Müller, P.M, Bletsos, G., Rung, T. Shape Transformation Approaches for Fluid Dynamic Optimization. Aerospace. 2023; 10(6):519. doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10060519

2022

Bletsos, G., Radtke, L., Düster, A., Rung, T. A fluid-structure interaction study of hemodynamics in arterial bypass-graft anastomoses. Proceedings of ECCOMAS 2022. 2022. doi.org/10.23967/eccomas.2022.007

2021

Bletsos, G., Kühl, N., Rung, T.  Adjoint-based shape optimization for the minimization of flow-induced
hemolysis in biomedical applications. Engineering Appl. of Comp. Fluid Mech. 15:1095-1112 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2021.1943532.

2019

Bletsos, G., Gkagkas, K., Asouti, V. et al. Multi-scale design of new lubricants featuring inhomogeneous viscosity. Eur. Phys. J. B 92, 201 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2019-100239-8