Undergraduate Courses

Heat Transfer

  • Introduction to heatt transfer
  • Heat transfer modes
  • One dimensional, steady state heat conduction
  • Thermal resistances
  • Conduction with heat generation
  • Cooling fins
  • Multi dimensional heat condyction
  • Transient heat conduction
  • Numerical methods in heat conduction
  • Introduction to heat convection
  • Boundary layer, laminar and turbulent flow, boundary layer equations
  • Similarity theory
  • Analogies in heat and momentum transfer
  • Heat convection in external flows
  • Heat convection in internal flows
  • Intriduction to heat radiation

Fluid Mechanics

  • Introcuction to fluid mechanics
  • Fluid properties
  • Hydrostatics, Hydrostatic pressure prism
  • Eulerian and Langragian flow description, streamlines, pathlines
  • Flow equations, integral form
  • Flow equations, differential form
  • Stream function. Velocity potential
  • Bernoulli equation
  • Rotational and irrotational flow fields
  • Euler equations
  • Newton law for viscosity
  • Navier-Stokes equations
  • Laminar and turbulent flow in pipes. Moody diagram
  • Major and minor losses in pipes
  • Flow in pipe networks

Postrgraduate Courses

Rational Energy Management in Production Systems

  • Introduction to the energy problem.
  • Principles of energy analysis and energy efficiency of production systems.
  • The energy system. Energy chain. Principles of systems theory.
  • Primary energy and final energy.
  • Energy balance at process and system level.
  • Rational use of energy in the industrial sector.
  • Heat and Power co-generation systems.
  • Rational use of energy in transport.
  • Rational use of energy in the domestic sector.
  • Energy Materials Technology - "Intelligent" materials and energy saving devices.
  • Energy saving policies.
  • Energy management. Energy auditing.
  • Economic and environmental dimension.

ICT for Agriculture and Water Resources Management

  • Revolution 4.0
    • Ιndustrial revolutions
    • Agricultural revolutions
    • Water management revolutions
  • Current trends and challenges in agriculture industry
  • State of art practices and applications
    • Produce differently using new techniques
    • Increase efficiencies in food value chain
    • Incorporate cross–industry practices
  • Enabling technologies: Hardware
    • Robots and cobots
    • Global navigation satellite systems
    • Unmanned aerial vehicles
    • Internet of things
  • Enabling technologies: Software and services
    • Farm management information systems
    • AI & Big data analytics
    • Blockchain technologies
  • Enabling technologies: Cyber Physical Systems and Digital Twins
  • European research initiatives and research projects