& Staff

Ship Design Laboratory

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE & MARINE ENGINEERING

Postal Address:

Ship Design Laboratory
Division of Ship Design & Maritime Transport
National Technical University of Athens
9, Heroon Polytechniou
15 773
Zografou - Athens
GREECE
Tel.: 0030 210 772 14 09
         0030 210 772 14 16
 Fax: 0030 210 772 14 08

Education

• Ph.D., Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2003.
• Naval Architect and Marine Engineer, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1995.

• Ship Design:
Design of ships with specific focus on the integration of the various subsystems into the ship system and the interactions between the subsystem design and the overall ship design.  Particular interest at the design of advanced hull forms such as high speed monohulls, Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) ships, Surface Effect Ships (SES), Air Cushion Vehicles (ACVs) and surface naval combatants. 
 
• Survivability:
Investigation of the survivability of Ro-Ro passenger and naval ships through their susceptibility and vulnerability characteristics. Analysis of the Radar Cross Section (RCS) and Infrared (IR) signatures for naval combatants and their suppression through proper design. Vulnerability assessment of Ro-Ro and naval ships using alternative probabilistic damage stability procedures. Study the impact of the new rules and regulations on existing and new designs.

• Design Optimization:
Parametric definition of ship design for investigating and implementing state-of-the-art optimization algorithms. Application of Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms for obtaining the Pareto-optimum solutions in Multi-Criteria decision problems.

• Evacuation Modeling & Simulation:
Modeling and simulation of the human behaviour and the crowd dynamics during the evacuation of large passenger ships. Investigation of the potential applicability of Cellular Automata-based (CA) programs to the compliance procedure of the relevant IMO regulations.

• Seakeeping:
Operability analysis using seakeeping computer codes such as NEWDRIFT (a 3D panel method software developed by Prof. A. Papanikolaou) for estimating the performance of monohull and twin-hull ships in sea waves, according to prescribed criteria.

• Computer Aid Design & Animation:
Application of modern computer aid design (i.e. AUTOCAD, Rhinocheros, NAPA, AUTOSHIP) & animation (i.e. 3DS max) programs in ship design and simulation. Development of user-friendly computer programs using low-level application programming interfaces (APIs) such as Microsoft® Direct3D® and OpenGL.

1. Boulougouris, E. K., "Ship design optimization for enhanced survivability after damage for Ro-Ro passenger and naval ships" - PhD Thesis, Ship Design Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, November 2003.
2. Boulougouris, E. K., and Papanikolaou, A., "Optimization of Naval Ships with Genetic Algorithms for Enhanced survivability", Athens, IMDC 2003.
3. Zaraphonitis G., Boulougouris E. and Papanikolaou A., "An Integrated Optimization Procedure for the Design of Ro-Ro Passenger Ships of Enhanced Safety and Efficiency", Athens, IMDC 2003.
4. Boulougouris, E. K., and Papanikolaou, A., "Modeling & Simulation of the evacuation process of passenger ships", IMAM 2002.
5. Spanos D., Papanikolaou A., Boulougouris E., "On the Rolling and Safety of Fishing Vessels with Water On Deck" VIII Inter. Symp. on Technics and Technology in Fishing Vessels, Ancona, May, 2001.
6. Boulougouris, E. K., Papanikolaou, A. D., Spanos, D., "Rational Assessment of Survivability for Naval Ships", submitted to 2000 RINA Safer Ship Competition, January 2001.
7. Papanikolaou, A., Spyrou, K., Boulougouris, E., "Improved Guidance to the Master for Avoiding Dangerous Situations in Extreme Weather Conditions", 1st joint Prize Award at the Annual Safer Ship Competition organized by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), Dec. 1999, publ. Summary at the Journal Naval Architect, July 2000, London (United Kingdom).
8. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., "On a Rational Approach to the Survivability of Surface Naval and Merchant Ships", Proc. 7th Int. Congress of IMAM, May 2000, Naples (Italy).
9. Papanikolaou, A., Gratsos, G., Boulougouris, E., Eliopoulou, E., "Operational Measures of Avoiding Dangerous Situations in Extreme Weather Conditions", Proc. 7th Int. Conf. On Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, STAB2000, Feb. 2000, Tasmania (Australia).
10. Papanikolaou, A., Zaraphonitis, G., Spanos, D., Boulougouris, E., Eliopoulou, E., "Investigation into the Capsizing of Damaged Ro-Ro Passenger Ships in Waves", Proc. 7th Int. Conf. On Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, STAB2000, Feb. 2000, Tasmania (Australia).
11. Uzunoglu, N., Frangos, P., Boulougouris, E., Pintzos, S., Kaklamani, D., "Calculations of the Radar Cross Section of complex radar targets using the Physical Optics Approximation", Invited Pa-per, Progress of Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS'98), Nantes, France, July 13-17, 1998.
12. Frangos, P., Boulougouris, E., Pintzos, S., Aliferis, I., "Calculations of the Radar Cross Section of ships using high frequency electromagnetic techniques", International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA'99), September 13-17, 1999, Torino, Italy.
13. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., "Design Aspects of Survivability of Surface Naval and Merchant Ships", in Contemporary Ideas on Ship Stability, Elsevier Publishers, September 1999, Oxford (United Kingdom). 
14. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., "Seakeeping Analysis of Standard Type Bulkcarriers for Improved Weather Routing", Part I: Handysize, Part 2: Handymax, Part III: Panamax, part IV: Capesize, Greek Chamber of Shipping, NTUA-SDL Rep., August-November 1998 (Greece).
15. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, V., "Design Aspects of Survivability of Merchant and Naval Ships", Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Ship Stability, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, September 1998, St. John's (Canada).
16. Boulougouris, V., Papanikolaou, A., "Design Aspects of Survivability of Naval Ships", Proc. Int. Conf. on Naval Technology, 29-30 June, 1998, Piraeus (Greece).
17. Uzunoglu, N., Papanikolaou, A., Frangos, P., Boulougouris, E., Kaklamani, D., "Calculation of the Radar Cross Section (RCS) of Ships Using the Physical Optics (PO) approximation", Proc. of the Int. Conf. on The Naval Technology For the 21st Century, Hellenic Naval Academy, 29-30 June 1998.
18. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., "Preliminary Design of an Offshore Patrol Vessel for the Aegean Sea", Proc. Int. Conf. on Naval Technology, 29-30 June 1998, Piraeus (Greece).
19. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., "Conceptual Design of a 120 TEU High-Speed SWATH Container Ship", SDL-NTUA Report, Athens, December 1996 (Greece).
20. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., Spanos, D., "On the Specification of the Roll Radius of Gyration for Ro-Ro Passenger Ships in view of SOLAS 95 Res. 14 Equivalent Model Test Method", Proc. ISOPE'97 Conf., Honolulu, May 1997 (USA).
21. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., Spanos, D., "On the Specification of the Roll Radius of Gyration for Ro-Ro Passenger Ships in view of SOLAS 95 Res. 14 Equivalent Model Test Method", Prep. for the Hellenic Register of Shipping, Greek Shipowners Assoc. for Passenger Ships & Union of Coastal Passenger Shipowners, NTUA-SDL Rep., Athens, June 1996 (Greece).
22. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., "Validation of 2D Sloshing Simulations for partially filled oscillating Tanks", Rep. to Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg, December 1995 (Germany).
23. Papanikolaou, A., Bartzis, P., Boulougouris, E., Spanos, D., "Study on the Practical Implications of the Proposed New SOLAS Regulations on Existing Greek Ro-Ro Passenger Ships and Critical Review of the Proposed New Regulations", Vol. I-III, Final Report for the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, Greek Shipowners Association and Union of Greek Coastal Passenger Shipowners, September 1995, Athens (Greece).
24. Papanikolaou, A., Boulougouris, E., "Hydrodynamic Analysis and Preliminary Design of a SWATH Offshore Patrol Vessel for the Greek Navy", SDL-NTUA Report, March 1995.

[back to top ]

1. "Study on the Practical Implications of the Proposed New SOLAS Regulations on Existing Greek Ro-Ro Pass. Ships and Critical Re-view of the Proposed New Regulations", Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, Greek Shipowners Association for Pass. Ships, Union of Coastal Passenger Shipowners, 1995.

2. "Development of a SWATH Offshore Patrol Vessel for the Aegean Sea", Hellenic Navy, self-funded research, 1995.

3. "Study on the Evaluation of the Roll Radius of Gyration of Ro-Ro Pass. Ships in view of the New SOLAS Reg. - Equivalent Model Test Method" (completed), Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, 1996.

4. Thematic Network SAFER-EURORO - Design for Survivability, DG XII, 1997-2001.

5. SHEAKS - Development of a Computer Based System for Enhanced Seakeeping and Structural Ship Design, DG XII - BRITE, 1997-2000.

6. "Systematic Study on the wave induced loads and on the capsize of a series of standard type bulkcarriers", Hellenic Chamber of Ship-ping, 1998.

7. ROROPROB - Probabilistic Rules based Design of Ro-Ro Pass. Ships (running), DG XII - BRITE, 2000-2003.

8. VRSHIPS-ROPAX - (running), 2001-2005.

• Member of Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), September 1995.
• Member of the Hellenic Society of Naval Architects.
• Member of the board of directors of the Hellenic Institute of Marine Technology (HIMT) from 1997 to 2001.

[back to top ]

• The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), 1st Prize in the international SAFER SHIP COMPETITION 1999.
• Hellenic Institute of Marine Technology (HIMT), 1st Prize of the for the best undergraduate thesis in 1995 for the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of NTUA.

Honors:

• Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), Three-year scholarship for postgraduate studies, 1996-99.
• Eugenides Foundation, one-year scholarship for postgraduate studies (1995-96).
• Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), scholarship for the best undergraduate performance during the academic-year 1992-93.

 

[back to top ]

Send mail to webmaster with questions or comments about this web site.