Yannis C. Yortsos is the Dean of Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the Chester F. Dolley Professor of Petroleum Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University, Athens, Greece, in 1973; his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology; and also his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at Caltech in 1979.
He has done significant research in fields that include fluid flow, transport, and reaction in porous media, viscous flows in porous media geometries, phase change in porous media and applications to the recovery of subsurface fluids (oil recovery, soil remediation).
1.Yiotis, A., Boudouvis, A.G., Stubos, A.K., Tsimpanogiannis, I.N., and Yortsos, Y.C.,* */Pore-Network Modeling of Isothermal Drying in Porous Media/, Transport in Porous Media, *58 *(1-2), 63-86 (2005).
2. Akkutlu, Y.I, and Yortsos, Y.C., /The Effect of Heterogeneity on In-situ Combustion: Propagation of Combustion Fronts in Layered Porous Media/,/ /SPEJ, accepted (2005).
3. Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y.C., /Pattern Formation in Reverse Filtration Combustion/, Phys. Rev. E accepted (2005).
4. Amili, P., and Yortsos, Y.C., /Darcian Dynamics: A New Approach to the Mobilization of a Trapped Phase in Porous Media/, TiPM, accepted (2005).//
5. Chen, M., Yortsos, Y.C., and Rossen, W., /A //Pore-Network Study of the Mechanisms of Foam Generation in Porous Media/, Phys. Rev.E submitted (2005).
6. Chen, M., Yortsos, Y.C., and Rossen, W., /Insights on the Mechanisms of Foam Generation in Porous Media from Pore-Network Studies/, Colloids and Surfaces, *256/2-3*, 181-189 (2005).
7. Yiotis, A., Stubos, A.K., Boudouvis, A.G., Tsimpanogiannis, I.N., and Yortsos, Y.C., /Pore Network Modeling Of Isothermal Drying In Porous Media/, in Upscaling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: *From Pore to Core and Beyond*, Das, D.B. and Hassanizadeh, S.M. (Eds.), Springer, 2005.
8. Chen, M., Rossen, W., and Yortsos, Y.C., /The Flow and Displacement in Porous Media of Fluids with Yield Stress/, Chem. Eng. Sci., *60 (15)*, 4183-4202 (2005).
9. Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y.C., /The Dynamics of Forward Filtration Combustion at the Pore-Network Level/, AIChEJ *51* (4), 1279-1296 (2005).
10. Talon, L., Martin, J., Rakotomalala, N., Salin, D., and Yortsos,Y.C., /Crossing the Elliptic Region in Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems with Change-of-Type Behavior Arising in Flow Between Parallel Plates/, Phys. Rev. E *69*, 066318 (2004).
11. Shariati, M., Talon, L., Martin, J., Rakotomalala, N., Salin, D., and Yortsos, Y.C., /Physical Origins of the Change of Type from Hyperbolic to Elliptic Equations: Fluid Displacement Between two Parallel Plates/, J. Fluid Mech.* 519, *105-132 (2004).
Yannis C. Yortsos