Postdoctoral Researcher at National Technical University of Athens [full CV]

Research and interests

• Computational Mechanics
• Meshless Methods
• Finite Element Method
• Large scale problems
• Crack growth simulation
• 3d printing simulation

Education

• Postdoctoral studies in Computational Mechanics, NTUA – School of Civil Engineering, Greece.
• Ph.D. Computational Mechanics, NTUA – School of Civil Engineering, Greece.
• M.Sc. Analysis and Design of Structures, NTUA – School of Civil Engineering, Greece.
• M. Eng. Civil Engineering, NTUA – School of Civil Engineering, Greece.

Publications

Papers in Scientific Journals

• P. Metsis and M. Papadrakakis, “Overlapping and non-overlapping domain decomposition methods for large-scale meshless EFG simulations”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 229-232, 2012, pp. 128–141.
• A. Karatarakis, P. Metsis, M. Papadrakakis, “GPU-acceleration of stiffness matrix calculation and efficient initialization of EFG meshless methods”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 258, 2013, pp. 63–80.
• P. Metsis, N. Lantzounis and M. Papadrakakis, “A new hierarchical partition of unity formulation of EFG meshless methods” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 283, 2015, pp. 782–805.
• G. Stefanou, D. Savvas, D, P. Metsis, “Random Material Property Fields of 3D Concrete Microstructures Based on CT Image Reconstruction”. Materials 2021, 14, 1423. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14061423

Papers in Conference Proceedings

• P. Metsis and M. Papadrakakis, Solving large scale problems in meshless EFG simulations, 7th GRACM International Congress on Computational Mechanics, 30 June-2 July 2011, Athens, Greece.
• A. Karatarakis, P. Metsis, M. Papadrakakis, The computational efficiency of EFG simulations revisited, (Keynote Lecture), 6th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 10-14 September, 2012, Vienna, Austria.
• P. Metsis, N. Lantzounis and M. Papadrakakis, Hierarchical derivation of shape functions and stiffness matrix calculation of EFG meshless methods, 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona, Spain
• P. Metsis and M. Papadrakakis, Efficient shape function construction of EFG meshless method, VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 5–10 June 2016, Crete Island, Greece