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Dr Manolia Andredaki

School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Dr Andredaki joined LJMU as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment in 2022. She started her research activity in 2008 at the Laboratory of Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics in the School of Engineering (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece), investigating numerically the effect of sediment accumulation in reservoirs on shoreline erosion, developing and applying an in-house mathematical model for suspended sediment transport and deposition. She was also involved as a Researcher in the Project: INTERREG IIIC/BEACHMED-e, Strategic management of beach protection for sustainable development of Mediterranean coastal zones and in the National Research Project: Application of optimisation methods for problems relating to reservoir sedimentation, in which she investigated numerically the connection of the shoreline erosion with sediment accumulation at the reservoirs upstream of rivers, potential sediment removal techniques and their corresponding optimisation. The aforementioned knowledge on hydraulics, mathematical and numerical simulations as well as on multiphase and particulate flows has been utilised and expanded through her long term post-doctoral research in the UK. Dr Andredaki worked as a Research Fellow (RF) and Co-Investigator at the well-known Advanced Engineering Centre (AEC) and the Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Devises (CRMD) of the University of Brighton (UoB) in various ESA-CORA-MAP, Innovate UK Smart Grant and EPSRC research projects as well as industrial consultancy projects for more than six years, publishing her work in the most influential journals in the field, working with word-leading research groups and laboratories in University of Toronto, University of Milan, University of Pisa, Technical University of Denmark, University of Mons, University of Lisbon. Her post-doctoral research has been focused on multiphase flows (gas/liquid interface dynamics, phase-change heat transfer coupled between two-phase fluid and solid domains, droplet impact phenomena) for green engineering applications, while the methodologies that have been developed by Dr Andredaki can also be applied to applications, such as heating and air conditioning, water supply, waste water treatment, irrigation, oil and gas pumping networks as well as for simulating dam- break phenomena, floods and fluid-structure interaction and water motion within soil substrates. As a PI, Dr Andredaki has been successful in securing funding by the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF-EF) (€172,618.56). This MSCA Fellowship has now been withdrawn, since, in September 2022, Dr Andredaki has been appointed as a Senior Lecturer at LJMU, prior to the starting date of the proposed fellowship. As a Principal Investigator (PI), Dr Andredaki has been also successful in securing internal funding at the UoB through the Rising Stars Initiative 2019-2020 Award, in 2019, being the only RF that won the fund. The successful completion of the Rising Stars research project led in 2020 to her participation in the preparation and submission as a Co-Investigator of the successful research proposal WHISKIES (Wound Healing In Space: Key challenges towards Intelligent and Enabling Sensing platforms) funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). This interdisciplinary ESA CORA-MAP Research Project had 15 Academic and 8 Industrial international partners, totalling to an overall budget of €2.2M Finally, as a part of an active research group, for the past six years, Dr Andredaki has contributed to the preparation and submission of a significant number of research proposals to funding schemes such as the EPSRC and Leverhulme Trust, in order to secure and maintain her research fellowship from 2016 until 2022. Furthermore, Dr Andredaki has a long-term professional experience (2004-2016) working as a Chartered Engineer in Greece both in the private and public sectors, designing, managing and supervising the construction of water supply and wastewater networks, rainwater drainage networks, public buildings and infrastructures and preparing successful EU funding applications for public buildings renovation projects.

Journal article

Grmasha RA, Stenger-Kovács C, Al-sareji OJ, Al-Juboori RA, Meiczinger M, Andredaki M, Idowu IA, Majdi HS, Hashim K, Al-Ansari N. 2024. Temporal and spatial distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Danube River in Hungary Scientific Reports, 14 :8318 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Al-sareji OJ, Abdulzahra MA, Hussein TS, Shlakaa AS, Karhib MM, Meiczinger M, Grmasha RA, Al-Juboori RA, Somogyi V, Domokos E, Idowu IA, Andredaki M, Hashim KS. 2023. Removal of Pharmaceuticals from Water Using Laccase Immobilized on Orange Peels Waste-Derived Activated Carbon Water, 15 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Al-sareji OJ, Meiczinger M, Al-Juboori RA, Grmasha RA, Andredaki M, Somogyi V, Idowu IA, Stenger-Kovács C, Jakab M, Lengyel E, Hashim KS. 2023. Efficient removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from water and wastewater using immobilized laccase on activated carbon derived from pomegranate peels Scientific Reports, 13 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Pontes P, Gonçalves I, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Moreira ALN, Moita AS. 2022. Fluid flow and heat transfer in microchannel devices for cooling applications: Experimental and numerical approaches Applied Thermal Engineering, 218 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Bouchard DJ, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Marengo M, Chandra S. 2022. Penetration characteristics of a liquid droplet impacting on a narrow gap: Experimental and numerical analysis Physics of Fluids, 34 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Andredaki M, Vontas K, Georgoulas A, Miché N, Marengo M. 2021. The effect of channel aspect ratio on flow boiling characteristics within rectangular micro-passages International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 183 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Vontas K, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Miché N, Marengo M. 2021. The Effect of Hydraulic Diameter on Flow Boiling within Single Rectangular Microchannels and Comparison of Heat Sink Configuration of a Single and Multiple Microchannels Energies, 14 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Vontas KONSTANTINOS, Andredaki MANOLIA, Georgoulas ANASTASIOS, Miché NICOLAS, Marengo MARCO. 2021. The effect of surface wettability on flow boiling characteristics within microchannels International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 172 DOI Publisher Url

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Miche N, Marengo M. 2021. Numerical investigation of liquid film instabilities and evaporation in confined oscillating slug-plug flows. Hernández S, Vorobieff P. Wit Transactions on Engineering Sciences, 123 :127-138 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Miché N, Marengo M. 2021. Accelerating Taylor bubbles within circular capillary channels: Break-up mechanisms and regimes International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 134 :103488-103488 DOI Publisher Url

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Marengo M. 2020. Numerical investigation of quasi-sessile droplet absorption into wound dressing capillaries Physics of Fluids, 32 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Vontas K, Boscariol C, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Crua C, Walther JH, Marengo M. 2020. Droplet Impact on Suspended Metallic Meshes: Effects of Wettability, Reynolds and Weber Numbers Fluids, 5 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Georgoulas A, Andredaki M, Marengo M. 2017. An Enhanced VOF Method Coupled with Heat Transfer and Phase Change to Characterise Bubble Detachment in Saturated Pool Boiling Energies, 10 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

ANDREDAKI M, GEORGOULAS A, HRISSANTHOU V, KOTSOVINOS N. Assessment of reservoir sedimentation effect on coastal erosion in the case of Nestos River, Greece International Journal of Sediment Research, 29 :34-48 DOI Publisher Url

Conference publication

Pontes P, Martins L, Gonçalves I, Manetti L, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Moreira ALN, Moita AS. 2021. Fluid flow and heat transfer in microchannel devices for cooling applications: experimental and numerical approaches PROCEEDINGS 15th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, ATE-HEFAT 2021, 15th international conference on heat transfer, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics Public Url

Vontas K, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Nikas K, Marengo M. 2017. Numerical Investigation of Droplet Impact on Smooth Surfaces with Different Wettability Characteristics: Implementation of a dynamic contact angle treatment in OpenFOAM Proceedings of ILASS-Europe 2017, ILASS-Europe 2017, 28th Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems :58-65 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Andredaki M, Gratziou M. Water demand and rate policies applications in a Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewerage 5th International Conference on Environmental Technology HELECO ’05, February 2005, Athens.

Andredaki M, Hrissanthou V, Kotsovinos N. Calculation of sediment reduction at the outlet of Nestos River basin, due to the dams V International Symposium on Transboundary Waters Management

Hrissanthou V, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Kotsovinos N. Impact of reservoir sedimentation on coastal erosion in the case of Nestos River International Conference on the Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Hrissanthou V, Kotsovinos N. The Effect of Reservoir Sedimentation on Coastal Erosion: the Case of Nestos River, Greece Proceedings of the TU/MEDFRIEND International Conference on Sediment Transport Modeling in Hydrological Watersheds and Rivers :806-815

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Hrissanthou V. Sediment management in reservoirs in order to reduce shoreline erosion: The case of Nestos River, Greece 4rth International Symposium on Sediment Management

Andredaki M. Numerical Investigation of Break-up Mechanisms and Conditions for Vapour Slugs Within Mini-Channels Georgoulas A, Marengo M. Proceedings of the 29th Parallel CFD Conference

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Miche N, Marengo M. Break-up Mechanisms and Conditions for Vapour Slugs Within Mini-Channels Proceedings of the 15th UK Heat Transfer Conference (UKHTC2017)

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Mangini D, Araneo L, Pietrasanta L, Miche N, Marengo M. Computational study on break-up mechanisms of isolated vapour slugs during saturated flow boiling conditions IHTC16-23952. Proceedings of the 16th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC-16

Teodori E, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Moita A, Moreira A, Marengo M. Enhanced VOF-based direct numerical simulations of slug flow boiling within micro-channels with smooth and finned heated walls Proceedings of the 16th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC-16

Andredaki M, Vontas K, Georgoulas A, Miche N, Marengo M. Effect of channel aspect ratio on flow boiling characteristics within rectangular micro- passages Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (ICMFHT’20)

Vontas K, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Miché N, Marengo M. Wettability effect on flow boiling characteristics within micro-passages Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (ICMFHT’20)

Vontas K, Boscariol C, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Walther, JH, Marengo M. Numerical Investigation of Droplet Impact on Metallic Meshes 10th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF 2019

Andredaki M, Bouchard DJ, Georgoulas A, Chandra S, Marengo M. Numerical Simulation of Droplet Breakup when Impacting a Narrow Gap 29th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. ILASS 2019

Andredaki M, Villa, F, Georgoulas A, De Coninck J, Marengo M. Numerical Investigation of isolated bubble growth and detachment in cases of pool boiling with different wettability characteristics: Implementation of a dynamic contact angle treatment in OpenFOAM Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Boiling & Condensation Heat Transfer,

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Miche N, Teodori E, Moita A, Moreira A, Marengo M. Numerical investigation of oscillating vapour slugs within heated microchannels in saturated flow boiling conditions, Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Microfluidics – μFlu18 and the 3rd European Conference on Non-Equilibrium Gas Flows – NEGF18

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Miche N, Marengo M. Effect of Flow Oscillations on the Liquid Film Evaporation and Instability Formation for Elongated Vapour Slugs within Heated Micro channels Proceedings of the joint 19th International Heat Pipe Conference and the 13th International Heat Pipe Symposium

Hrissanthou V, Andredaki M. Estimate of sedimentation in Kalavasos Reservoir, Cyprus 10th International Symposium on River Sedimentation VI :79-85

Pietrasanta L, Fioriti D, Miche N, Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Araneo L, Marengo M. A single loop pulsating heat pipe in varying gravity conditions: experimental results and numerical simulations Proceedings of the 16th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC-16

Andredaki M, Georgoulas A, Miche N, Marengo M. Break-up Mechanisms and Conditions for Vapour Slugs Within Mini-Channels Proceedings of the 15th UK Heat Transfer Conference (UKHTC2017)

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