Vavourakis, V., Wijeratne, P. A., Shipley, R., Loizidou, M., Stylianopoulos, T., & Hawkes, D. J. (2017).
A Validated Multiscale In-Silico Model for Mechano-sensitive Tumour Angiogenesis and Growth.
PLoS Comput Biol 13(1). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005259
2016
Vavourakis, V., Eiben, B., Hipwell, J. H., Williams, N. R., Keshtgar, M., & Hawkes, D. J. (2016).
Multiscale mechano-biological finite element modelling of oncoplastic breast surgery interventions – A numerical study towards surgical planning and cosmetic outcome prediction.
PLoS ONE 11(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159766
Hipwell, J. H., Vavourakis, V., Han, L., Mertzanidou, T., Eiben, B., & Hawkes, D. J. (2016).
A review of biomechanically informed breast image registration.
Physics in Medicine and Biology, 61 (2), R1-R31. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/61/2/R1
Eiben, B., Lacher, R., Vavourakis, V., Hipwell, J. H., Stoyanov, D., Williams, N. R., . . . Keshtgar, M. (2016).
Breast Conserving Surgery Outcome Prediction: A Patient-Specific, Integrated Multi-Modal Imaging and Mechano-Biological Modelling Framework.
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWDM), doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41546-8_35. Vavourakis, V., Hipwell, J. H., & Hawkes, D. J. (2016).
An Inverse Finite Element u/p-Formulation to Predict the Unloaded State of In Vivo Biological Soft Tissues.
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 44 (1), 187-201. doi:10.1007/s10439-015-1405-5
Tzirakis, K., Botti, L., Vavourakis, V., & Papaharilaou, Y. (2016).
Numerical modeling of non-Newtonian biomagnetic fluid flow.
Computers and Fluids, 126, 170-180. doi:10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.11.016
Eiben, B., Vavourakis, V., Hipwell, J. H., Kabus, S., Buelow, T., Lorenz, C., . . . Hawkes, D. J. (2016).
Symmetric Biomechanically Guided Prone-to-Supine Breast Image Registration.
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 44 (1), 154-173. doi:10.1007/s10439-015-1496-z
2015
Kazakidi, A., Vavourakis, V., Tsakiris, D. P., & Ekaterinaris, J. A. (2015).
A numerical investigation of flow around octopus-like arms: near-wake vortex patterns and force development.
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 18 (12), 1321-1339. doi:10.1080/10255842.2014.900757
Wijeratne, P. A., Vavourakis, V., Hipwell, J. H., Voutouri, C., Papageorgis, P., Stylianopoulos, T., . . . Hawkes, D. J. (2015).
Multiscale modelling of solid tumour growth: the effect of collagen micromechanics.
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. doi:10.1007/s10237-015-0745-2
Metaxa, E., Kontopodis, N., Vavourakis, V., Tzirakis, K., Ioannou, C. V., & Papaharilaou, Y. (2015).
The influence of intraluminal thrombus on noninvasive abdominal aortic aneurysm wall distensibility measurement.
Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 53 (4), 299-308. doi:10.1007/s11517-014-1235-x
2014
Vavourakis, V., Kazakidi, A., Tsakiris, D. P., & Ekaterinaris, J. A. (2014).
A nonlinear dynamic finite element approach for simulating muscular hydrostats.
Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin, 17 (8), 917-931. doi:10.1080/10255842.2012.723702
Eiben, B., Vavourakis, V., Hipwell, J. H., Kabus, S., Lorenz, C., Buelow, T., & Hawkes, D. J. (2014).
Breast deformation modelling: Comparison of methods to obtain a patient specific unloaded configuration.
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 9036. doi:10.1117/12.2043607
Loukidis, D., & Vavourakis, V. (2014).
Limit lateral resistance of vertical piles in plane strain.
Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering -
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, 1, 681-685. ISBN-13:978-1-138-02687-2
2013
Vavourakis, V., Loukidis, D., Charmpis, D. C., & Papanastasiou, P. (2013).
A robust finite element approach for large deformation elastoplastic plane-strain problems.
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 77, 1-15. doi:10.1016/j.finel.2013.08.003
Metaxa, E., Vavourakis, V., Kontopodis, N., Pagonidis, K., Ioannou, C. V., & Papaharilaou, Y. (2013).
Abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture risk assessment exploiting dynamic (4D) CT BASEd wall motion data and finite element analysis.
ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC 2013, 1 A. doi:10.1115/SBC2013-14509 Vavourakis, V., Loukidis, D., Charmpis, D. C., & Papanastasiou, P. (2013).
Assessment of remeshing and remapping strategies for large deformation elastoplastic Finite Element analysis.
Computers and Structures, 114-115, 133-146. doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2012.09.010
2012
Vavourakis, V., Bampasakis, D., Kazakidi, A., Pateromichelakis, N., Ekaterinaris, J. A., & Tsakiris, D. P. (2012).
Generation of primitive behaviors for non-linear hyperelastic octopus-inspired robotic arm.
Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 725-730. doi:10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290684
Kazakidi, A., Vavourakis, V., Pateromichelakis, N., Ekaterinaris, J. A., & Tsakiris, D. P. (2012).
Hydrodynamic analysis of octopus-like robotic arms.
ICRA, 5295-5300. IEEE. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225037
2011
Vavourakis, V., Kazakidi, A., Tsakiris, D. P., & Ekaterinaris, J. A. (2011).
A finite element method for non-linear hyperelasticity applied for the simulation of octopus arm motions.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, COUPLED PROBLEMS 2011, 147-159. Vavourakis, V., Papaharilaou, Y., & Ekaterinaris, J. A. (2011).
Coupled fluid-structure interaction hemodynamics in a zero-pressure state corrected arterial geometry.
J Biomech, 44 (13), 2453-2460. doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.06.024
2009
Vavourakis, V. (2009).
A meshless local boundary integral equation method for two-dimensional steady elliptic problems.
Computational Mechanics, 44 (6), 777-790. doi:10.1007/s00466-009-0409-0 Vavourakis, V., Protopappas, V. I. C., Fotiadis, D., & Polyzos, D. (2009).
Numerical determination of modal dispersion and AE signal characterization in waveguides through LBIE/BEM and time-frequency analysis.
Computational Mechanics, 43 (3), 431-441. doi:10.1007/s00466-008-0318-7
2008
Vavourakis, V. (2008).
A local hypersingular boundary integral equation method using a triangular background mesh.
CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 36 (2), 119-145. Vavourakis, V., & Polyzos, D. (2008).
A MLPG(LBIE) numerical method for solving 2D incompressible and nearly incompressible elastostatic problems.
Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 24 (4), 281-296. doi:10.1002/cnm.965
2007
Vavourakis, V., & Polyzos, D. (2007).
A MLPG4 (LBIE) formulation in elastostatics.
Computers, Materials and Continua, 5 (3), 185-196.
2006
Vavourakis, V., Sellountos, E. J., & Polyzos, D. (2006).
A comparison study on different MLPG(LBIE) formulations.
CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 13 (3), 171-183. Vavourakis, V., & Polyzos, D. (2006).
A MLPG4(LBIE) formulation for solving axisymmetric problems.
In J. Sladek, V. Sladek (Eds.), Advances in meshless methods. http://www.techscience.com/books/iccesmm05.html: Tech Science Press. Vavourakis, V., & Polyzos, D. (2006).
A numerical study on the propagation of transient elastic waves in axisymmetric vessels.
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Scattering Theory and Biomedical Engineering, 245-260.
2005
Sellountos, E. J., Vavourakis, V., & Polyzos, D. (2005).
A new singular/hypersingular MLPG (LBIE) method for 2D elastostatics.
CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 7 (1), 35-47.
