SpyrosKinnas

Texas Engineer Spyros Kinnas
Professor & Associate Director – Offshore Technology Research CenterFellow of Hudson Matlock Professorial Endowed Excellence Fund in Civil Engineering

Areas of Impact
Research Interests

Ocean engineering; Hydrodynamics; Cavitation; Wave mechanics; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Design of ocean vehicle control and propulsion systems; Tidal turbines;

Bio

Professor Spyros Kinnas holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Ocean Engineering at MIT and a Diploma from the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Prior to his tenure at UT Austin, he served as a principal research engineer and lecturer in the Department of Ocean Engineering at MIT.

Kinnas specializes in the area of computational hydrodynamics with applications to the design of high-speed propulsors and control surfaces for ships, as well as the design of ocean current turbines. He is a member of the Scientific Committees of the International Symposia on Cavitation, the International Symposia on Marine Propulsors, a SNAME Fellow and a member of the Editorial Committees/Boards of the Journal of Ship Research, the Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, the International Journal of Ocean Systems Engineering and the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985
B.S., Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1981

Select Awards & Honors

  • Department Teaching Award – Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (1999, 2009)
  • Ervin S. Perry Student Appreciation Award – Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (2008) 
  • Halliburton Young Faculty Award (1998) 
  • Innovative Instructional Technologies Award (2001) 

Select Publications

Kinnas research group Google Scholar

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