Welcome to the official page of the Computational Sciences Laboratory (UCY-CompSci). UCY-CompSci was established as a Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Center (TOK-DEV) aiming at the promotion of Computational Science and Engineering and is operated by the Engineering School at the University of Cyprus (UCY-Eng) under the leadership of Prof. Stavros Kassinos.

UCY-CompSci provides a multi-disciplinary research core aiming at the promotion of excellence in a range of computational science and engineering themes that support the research activities of the School of Engineering, such as Complex Fluid and Plasma Flow, Molecular Dynamics and Ab Initio MD Simulations for Nanofluidics and Plasma-Wall Interactions, Multi-Phase Flows and Pollutant Dispersion, Biomedical Fluid Dynamics, and Turbulence Theory, Modeling  and Simulation.

UCY-CompSci operates a number of parallel computing systems that are  described in detail under the Laboratory Infrastructure link. These systems provide an overall computing power of roughly 2.5 Teraflops. 

This site provides information about the structure of the research and training activities of UCY-CompSci, provides information and job application material for prospective fellows, and highlights important research results and activities.

In collaboration with the teams of Prof. Alessio Alexiades (U. of Birmingham) and Prof. Sitaram Velaga (Luleå University of Technology) we have been looking at mass transfer though boundary layers containing motile cilia in the lung.

The idea is to understand the main mechanisms of mass transport occurring during drug absorption or exposure to environmental agents in a ciliated layer. The effect of drug diffusivity, cilia beat frequency and cilia flexibility is studied. Our results show the existence of three mass transfer regimes. A low frequency regime, which we called shielding regime, where the presence of the cilia hinders mass transport; an intermediate frequency regime, which we have called diffusive regime, where diffusion is the controlling mechanism; and a high frequency regime, which we have called convective regime, where the degree of bending of the cilia seems to be the most important factor controlling mass transfer in the ciliated-layer. Since the flexibility of the cilia and the frequency of the beat changes with age and health conditions, the knowledge of these three regimes allows prediction of how mass transfer, and ultimately drug absorption, varies with these factors. 

The February 15, 2018 issue of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (EJPS) is dedicated to COST Action MP1404 - SimInhale. 

The special issue reflects the spirit of the COST Action itself, in the sense that it brings under a common roof a collection of papers that address different aspects of the current state of the art in this complex and fascinating field. The special issue hosts a total of 14 papers. About a third of the papers are critical reviews, while the rest are original research papers.

Click here to read the issue at the EJPS-Elsevier Site