Nireas, International Water Research Center (Nireas-IWRC) of the University of Cyprus

The Nireas International Water Research Center (Nireas-IWRC) was established in 2011 with the vision of reaching out to the wider scientific community to exchange knowledge and best practices, to advance the state-of-the-art in water-related scientific research and technologies, and to strengthen public awareness on waterrelated issues. The Center’s mission is twofold: to conduct research of high international caliber, while at the same time serving the research needs of Cypriot society, economy, and industry. Among the Center’s many research, social, and dissemination activities, of particular note are its efforts in the thematic research areas of: (i) Water Quality, Monitoring and Treatment; (ii) Water Supply and Urban Water Management; and (iii) Socioeconomic Analysis of Water-Related Issues. Nireas-IWRC researchers have already secured significant national, EU, and international funding, and their research results have widely been disseminated in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, technical reports, and technical workshops.[Contrib Sci 10:221-228 (2014)

Thermal Conduction in Magnetized Turbulent Gas

Using numerical methods, we systematically study in the framework of ideal MHD the effect of magnetic fields on heat transfer within a turbulent gas. We measure the rates of passive scalar diffusion within magnetized fluids and make the comparisons a) between MHD and hydro simulations, b) between different MHD runs with different values of the external magnetic field (up to the energy equipartition value), c) between thermal conductivities parallel and perpendicular to magnetic field. We do not find apparent suppression of diffusion rates by the presence of magnetic fields, which implies that magnetic fields do not suppress heat diffusion by turbulent motions.Comment: 4 pages; 2 figures; submitted to Ap

Self-diffusivity, hydrogen bonding and density of different water models in carbon nanotubes

International audienceIn this paper, the density, hydrogen bonding and self-diffusivity of water confined in carbon nanotubes are investigated. Molecular dynamics is used to simulate a large variety of nanotubes with various water models. Our results produce, for the first time, the complete trend of these properties from narrow nanotubes, where water shows particularly anomalous behaviour, to large ones where its characteristics are similar to those of bulk