Petros Koumoutsakos (Caltech 1993, Direct Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Separated Flows Using Vortex Methods) was advised by Anthony Leonard (Stanford U. 1963, Energy-Dependent Neutron Transport Theory) who was advised by Joel Ferziger (U. of Michigan 1962, The Theory of Neutron Slowing Down in Nuclear Reactors), who was advised by Paul Frederick Zweifel (Duke U., 1954, Capture-Positron Branching Ratios) who was advised by Eugene Greuling (Indiana U. 1942, Theoretical Halflives of Forbidden beta-Transitions), who was advised by Emil John Konopinski (U. of Michigan 1936, A Synopsis of Theoretical Considerations Concerning the Continuous Beta-Ray-Spectra, member of the Mahnattan project), who was advised by George Eugene Uhlenbeck (Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands, 1927, Over statistische methoden in de theorie der quanta) who was advised by Paul Ehrenfest ( Universität Wien, Austria 1904, Die Bewegung starrer Körper in Flüssigkeiten und die Mechanik von Hertz (The Motion of Rigid Bodies in Fluids and the Mechanics of Hertz)) who was advised by Ludwig Boltzmann (Universität Wien, Austria, 1866, Über die mechanische Bedeutung des zweiten Hauptsatzes der mechanischen Wärmetheorie (On the Mechanical Interpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics), who was advised by Jozef Stefan (Universität Wien 1858, Bemerkungen über Absorption der Gase) who was advised by Andreas von Ettinghausen (Universität Wien and Kaiserlich-königliche Technische Militärakademie 1817) who was advised by Ignaz Linder (Kaiserlich-königliche Technische Militärakademie) who was advised by Georg Jurij Bartolomej Veha von Vega (Lyceum of Ljubljana 1775) who was advised by Gabriel Gruber (Universität Graz 1767, a naval architect !) and Joseph Giuseppe Jacob von Maffei (Universität Graz 1762) who were both advised by Nikolaus Boda Poda von Neuhaus (an entomologist who studied Philosophy in Klagenfurt (1746) and Theology in Vienna (1753)).
Links to Petros Koumoutsakos PhD students and Post-doctoral Fellows.