Research Information

I am a Courant Instructor/Assistant Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (New York University) working in the Applied Math Lab, primarily with Leif Ristroph and Jun Zhang. I am interested in using modeling, numerical simulations, and experiments to study fluid dynamical problems, with an emphasis on fluid-structure interactions.

Currently I am working on understanding the role of flow interactions in flying bird formations and the hydrodynamics of swimming fish. I also study interactions between vortices and free surfaces. My PhD research focused on the dynamics of extensible membranes in inviscid flow. My advisor was Silas Alben and my co-advisor was Karthik Duraisamy. Prior to that, I worked on modeling the manufacture of microstructured optical fibers and on the leapfrogging motion of vortex pairs.

News & Recent Updates

• New papers and preprint
  
  1. Flow interactions lead to self-organized flight formations disrupted by self-amplifying waves
     J. W. Newbolt, N. Lewis, M. Bleu, J. Wu, C. Mavroyiakoumou, S. Ramananarivo, L. Ristroph, Nat. Commun., 15, 3462 (2024)
     
  2. Spanwise variations in membrane flutter dynamics
     C. Mavroyiakoumou, S. Alben, J. Fluids Struct. 130, 104194 (2024)
  3. Sail dynamics during tacking maneuvers [2410.04966]
     C. Mavroyiakoumou, S. Alben (2024)
• Seminar
  January 24, 2025: Graduate Student / Postdoc Seminar (Website)
• Minicourses
  Fall 2024: I am organizing a series of minicourses at CIMS. The schedule and other notes can be found here.
  

Education

• Ph.D. (Applied & Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Scientific Computing) University of Michigan, USA, 2017-2022
• M.Sc. (Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing) University of Oxford, UK, 2016-2017
• B.Sc. (Mathematics) Imperial College London, UK, 2013-2016

Awards & Scholarships

• Joseph B. Keller Postdoctoral Fellowship, New York University, 2023-2024
• Peter Smereka Award for Best Applied Math Thesis, University of Michigan, 2022
• ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, University of Michigan, 2022
• SIAM Student Chapter Certificate of Recognition, 2022
• Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2021-2022
• MCAIM Award, University of Michigan, 2021-2022
• Rackham International Student Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2018-2019
• Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2017-2018
• Mathematics Department Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan, Summer 2017, 2019, 2020
• UROP Award for outstanding research project, Imperial College London, Department of Mathematics, October 2015
• Funding for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)
  • Dynamics of Interacting Vortices, Imperial College London, Summer 2015
  • The QRD and SVD of matrices over a real algebra, Imperial College London, Summer 2014