Dr. Nikolaos Th. Fourniotis

Dr. Nikolaos Th. Fourniotis is a Civil Engineer (University of Patras, 2004), with Master of Science (M.Sc. 2005) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. 2009) degrees from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Patras. He serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of the Peloponnese where he teaches 4 undergraduate courses, as well as 2 courses in the Department’s Graduate Program. In addition, he is a member of the Collaborating Educational Staff of the Hellenic Open University (H.O.U.) in the Master’s Degree Program: Engineering Project Management (DCHT).

He served as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the scientific area of Hydraulic Engineering teaching related courses, initially in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Patras (2010-2013) and then in the Department of Civil Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece (2013-2019).

He is the supervisor of 1 PhD thesis, a member of the advisory committee of 3 PhD theses and a member of the 7-member examination committees of 3 PhD (completed). He is the supervisor of 2 Master Theses at the Department’s Graduate Program where he serves, 21 Master Theses at the H.O.U. and more than 28 Bachelor or Diploma Theses in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of the Peloponnese.

He is the author or co-author of 22 peer-reviewed research articles in scientific Journals, 29 articles in refereed conference proceedings and 10 abstracts in scientific conferences, as well as 1 educational textbook entitled “Elements of Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Works” (ISBN 978-960-9427-89-0). He has served as a referee of about 20 journal and conference proceedings articles. Since 2004 he has been a member of Greek scientific committees, councils and associations, as well as scientific committees of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE-TCG). In addition, he has been or is a member of the organizational and/or scientific committee of conferences (WWETC2014, HydroMediT 2021, E.Y.E. 2022, DMPCO 2023). He serves or served as the principal investigator of 1 funded research project and a member of the research team in 15 more funded research projects.

He is the Scientific Supervisor of Student Internship in the Department of Civil Engineering where he serves. From 2021 he serves as a member of the Technical Council of the University of the Peloponnese. He served as a Specialist Scientist of the Management Body of Messolonghi Lagoon (Oct. 2014 – Jan. 2019). He provided services as a Technical Consultant for Scientific Support, to the Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and Ionia in Hydraulic Engineering issues (Nov. 2012 – Dec. 2014).

His main research interests lie in the hydrodynamics of geophysical flows and coastal circulation, the advection-dispersion/ transport of pollutants in inland and coastal waters, as well as the study of turbulent open-channel flows.

COURSES:

Undergraduate Courses

• Hydraulics I (5^thSemester)
• Hydraulics ΙΙ (6^thSemester)
• Water Supply and Sewage Works (7^th Semester)
• Maritime Hydraulics – Harbour Engineering (8^th Semester)

Postgraduate Courses

• Flood risk assessment and flood mitigation practices (Α Semester)
• Coastal protection works against erosion and natural disasters (Β Semester)

Selected Publications

• Dimas, A.A., Fourniotis, N.Th., Vouros, A.P., Demetracopoulos, A.C. (2008). “Effect of bed dunes on spatial development of open-channel flow”, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 46, Νο. 6, pp. 802-813.
• Fourniotis, N.Th. and Horsch, G.M. (2010). “Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Wind-Induced Barotropic Circulation in the Gulf of Patras”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 37, Νο. 4, pp. 355-364.
• Fourniotis, N.Th. and Horsch, G.M. (2015). “Baroclinic Circulation in the Gulf of Patras (Greece)”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 104, pp. 238-248.
• Horsch, G.M. and Fourniotis, N.Th. (2017). “Wintertime Tidal Hydrodynamics in the Gulf of Patras, Greece”, Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. 33, Issue 6, pp. 1305–1314.
• Fourniotis, N.Th. (2018). “Erosion of the thermocline in the Gulf of Patras, due to a severe wind event”, Global Nest Journal, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 136-146.
• Fourniotis, N.Th., Horsch, G.M. and Leftheriotis, G.A. (2018). “On the Hydrodynamic Geometry of Flow-Through versus Restricted Lagoons”, Water, Vol. 10, Issue 3, 237 (16 p.).
• Koutrouveli, Th.I., Dimas, A.A., Fourniotis, N.Th. and Demetracopoulos, A.C. (2019). “Groyne spacing role on the effective control of wall shear stress in open-channel flow”, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 167-182.
• Fourniotis, N.Th., Vouros, A.P. and Dimas, A.A. (2019). “Pier Shape Effect on Backwater Rise and Drag Force in Open-Channel Flow”, International Review of Civil Engineering (I.RE.C.E.), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 170-175.
• Fourniotis, N.Th., Leftheriotis G.A. and Horsch, G.M. (2021). “Towards enhancing tidally-induced water renewal in coastal lagoons”, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 343-360.
• Serafeim, A.V., Perdios, A., Gkikas, D., Fourniotis, N.Th. and Langousis, A. (2022). “OX FreeSurf: Automated Free Surface Calculation in Open-Channel Flow”, Water Utility Journal, EWRA, Vol. 30-31, p.p. 33-42.