Personal profile
Overview
Dr Georgios Fourtakas is a Senior Lecturer in the School Engineering at the University of Manchester. He obtained his PhD in 2014 for his work in non-Newtonian flows, multi-phase flows and boundary conditions. His research activity is mainly focused on meshless methods and computational fluid dynamics. Lately, George is working towards coupling Incompressible SPH with other mesh based solvers, wall boundary conditions and other theoretical SPH issues. Nevertheless, his curiosity to non-Newtonian flows and sediment transport is still strong. He is a developer of DualSPHysics with interest to free-surface, interfacial problems and high-performance computing.
Biography
George read Aeronautical Engineering at University of Salford and completed a Master degree at Cranfield University. Following his Masters degree he worked in industry for a number of years before returning to the academia to complete a Masters degree in Thermal Power and Fluid Mechanics followed by a Ph.D in SPH. He is currently a Lecturer in Complex Flow Modelling & Simulation at the University of Manchester.
Research interests
- Meshless methods and computational fluid dynamics
- Lagrangian, semi Eulerian-Lagrangian and ALE SPH formulations
- Hybrid codes with weak or strong coupling methodologies
- Sediment transport, multi-phase flows, non-Newtonian flows
- High-performance computing (GPU-CUDA and MPI)
Further information
- DualSPHyscis project, OpenMP/CUDA, Developer.
DualSPHysics is a set of C++, CUDA and Java codes designed to deal with real-life engineering problems using SPH. Currently, the most popular SPH solver in the world.
link: http://dual.sphysics.org/
External positions
Visiting Professor, University of Parma
1 Sept 2024 → 31 Oct 2025
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Dalton Nuclear Institute
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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GeoDualSPHysics: a high-performance SPH solver for large deformation modelling of geomaterials with two-way coupling to multi-body systems
Feng, R., Zhao, J., Fourtakas, G. & Rogers, B. D., 1 Mar 2026, In: Computer Physics Communications. 320, 20 p., 109965.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learning Mesh-Free Discrete Differential Operators with Self-Supervised Graph Neural Networks
Starepravo, L. G., Fourtakas, G., Lind, S., Harish, A., Tang, T. & King, J. R. C., 26 Mar 2026, SSRN, p. 1-26, 26 p.Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint
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Task-Parallelism in SWIFT for Heterogeneous Compute Architectures (RASTI)
Nasar, A., Rogers, B. D., Fourtakas, G., Ivkovic, M., Wienzierl, T., Kay, S. & Schaller, M., 10 Feb 2026, In: RAS Techniques and Instruments. 5, 26 p., rzag008.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2-D SPH modelling of poroelasticity: u-w-p and u-p formulations with absorbing boundary conditions and volumetric locking treatments
Yao, C., Fourtakas, G., Rogers, B. D. & Lombardi, D., Mar 2025, In: Computers and Geotechnics. 170, 107016.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A novel high-order spectral incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics(ISPH) scheme with an immersed boundary method (IBM)
Lin, M., Fourtakas, G. & Rogers, B. D., 1 Nov 2025, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 540, 25 p., 114264.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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SPH: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
Rogers, B. D. (PI), Stansby, P. (CoI), Fourtakas, G. (CoI), King, J. (CoI), Nasar, A. (Researcher) & Cen, C. (Researcher)
1/08/25 → …
Project: Research
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Mooring analysis and design for offshore WEC survivability and fatigue
Stansby, P. (PI), Draycott, S. (CoI), Fourtakas, G. (CoI), Lind, S. (CoI) & Zhang, L. (CoI)
1/09/21 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
Activities
- 7 Publication peer-review
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Advances in Water Resources (Journal)
Fourtakas, G. (Peer reviewer of publications)
2016 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review › Research
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Computer Physics Communications (Journal)
Fourtakas, G. (Peer reviewer of publications)
2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review › Research
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (Journal)
Fourtakas, G. (Peer reviewer of publications)
2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review › Research
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Advances in Engineering Software (Journal)
Fourtakas, G. (Peer reviewer of publications)
2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review › Research
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International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (Journal)
Fourtakas, G. (Peer reviewer of publications)
2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review › Research
Thesis
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Modelling multi-phase flows in Nuclear Decommissioning using SPH
Fourtakas, G. (Author), Rogers, B. D. (Main Supervisor) & Laurence, D. (Co Supervisor), 27 Oct 2014Student thesis: Phd
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