Alkmini Lytra

Post doctoral researcher

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Thessaly

Leoforos Athinon

Pedion Areos

38334 Volos

Greece

Tel. +30-24210 7 4186

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Short CV and Research Interests

Alkmini Lytra holds a PhD in computational mechanics and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the research group under the supervision of Prof. N. Pelekasis in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University of Thessaly.

Her work mainly focuses on computational and theoretical modeling of the static behavior of contrast agent microbubbles, the dynamics of two-phase flows with an interface in the presence of soluble surfactants and MHD flows of thin films with direct numerical simulations and stability analysis. 

Selected publications

  1. Lytra A. & N. Pelekasis, Static response and stability of coated microbubbles – Multiplicity of solutions and parameter estimation, Fluid Dyn. Res., 46(4), 041422, 2014. Download
  2. Lytra A., N. Pelekasis, V. Sboros, E. Glynos and V. Koutsos, Static Response of Coated Microbubbles: Modeling Simulations and Parameter Estimation, Procedia IUTAM, 16, 123-133, 2015. Download
  3. Lytra A. & N. Pelekasis, Static response of coated microbubbles compressed between rigid plates: Simulations and asymptotic analysis including elastic and adhesive forces, Physics of Fluids, 2018, 30, 030711. Download
  4. Lytra A., V. Sboros, A. Giannakopoulos and N. Pelekasis, Modeling atomic force microscopy and shell mechanical properties estimation of coated microbubbles, Soft Matter, 16,  4661-4681, 2020. Download