Office: Steinman Hall 252
Tel: (212)650-5215
Fax: (212)650-8013
email: ganatos@me.ccny.cuny.eduEducation and Awards:
B.E. (M.E.) 1973, The City College;
M.E. (M.E.) 1978, The City College;
Ph.D. (Engineering) 1979, CUNY
Member: ASME, AIAA
Research Interests:
low Reynolds number hydrodynamics
particulate flows
osmosis
elastohydrodynamic collision of bodies
mass transport in arterial wall
In collaboration with Prof. Sheldon Weinbaum and Prof. Robert Pfeffer (NJIT), Prof. Ganatos has done extensive research in numerical simulation of particulate flows at low Reynolds number and mass transport of macromolecules in the arterial wall. In his primary area of interest, low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, he and his students have tackled a number of previously unsolved problems including development of a strong interaction theory for the three-dimensional hydrodynamic interaction of particles, the motion of a body of revolution adjacent to a wall and the motion of an arbitrarily shaped body in a parallel-walled channel. The latter theory has been applied to theoretically predict the phenomenological coefficients for osmosis in biological membranes. In his secondary area of interest, mass transfer, Prof Ganatos has made significant contributions in the development of mathematical models describing transient and steady state diffusion and convection of macromolecules in the arterial wall. The above research has yielded numerous publications, a few of which are listed below
Current Collaborators:
B.M.Liaw, Department of Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York
Recent and frequently cited publications:
Tzeghai, G.E., P. Ganatos, R. Pfeffer, S. Weinbaum and A. Nir, "A Theoretical Model to Study the Effect of Convection and Leaky Junctions on Macromolecular Transport in Artery Walls," J. Theor. Biol. 121,141 (1986).
Hassonjee, Q., P. Ganatos and R. Pfeffer, "A Strong Interaction Theory for the Motion of Arbitrary Three- Dimensional Clusters of Spherical Particles at Low Reynolds Number," J. Fluid Mech. 197, 1 (1988).
Weinbaum, S., L. Chen and P. Ganatos, "Elastohydrodynamic Collision and Rebound of a Flat Plate from a Planar Surface Due to Body and Fluid Inertia," Phys. Fluids A 1, 140 (1989).
Hsu, R. and P. Ganatos, "The Motion of a Rigid Body in Viscous Fluid Bounded by a Plane Wall," J. Fluid Mech. 207, 29 (1989).
Weinbaum, S., P. Ganatos and Z. Yan, "Numerical Multipole and Boundary Integral Equation Techniques in Stokes Flow," Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 22, 275 (1990).
Teaching Activities:
Partial Differential Equations
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