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306.585.5040
fotini.labropulu@uregina.ca

Dr Fotini Labropulu studied Applied Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Dynamics at the University of Windsor, graduating with a PhD in 1993. She has published and presented academic papers on various aspects of Fluid Dynamics. Dr Labropulu received the Governor General's of Canada Gold Medal Award for the best academic performance at MSc level. She has also received numerous NSERC research grants.
 
Courses

• Math 103—Calculus for Social & Management Science
• Math 104—Calculus I(a)
• Math 105—Calculus I(b)
• Math 108—Mathematical Problems, Ideas and Personalities
• Math 110—Calculus I
• Math 111—Calculus II
• Math 122—Linear Algebra I
• Math 217—Differential Equations & Series
• Math 308—Topics in the History of Mathematics
• Math 381—Differential Equations II
• Math 395—Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
• Math 481/881—Partial Differential Equations.
• Math 890AB—Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
• Math 890AC—Fluid Dynamics II
• Math 891AB—Fluid Dynamics I

Current research & community work

• unsteady non-Newtonian fluid flows with heat transfer and MHD.
• turbulent flows with application to the environment and ground water pollution.                 
• development of analytical methods for obtaining exact solutions of fluid flows with complex geometries.
• Numerical solutions of steady viscous and viscoelastic fluid flows.

Select current publications

•  D. Li, F. Labropulu and I. Pop, Mixed convection flow of a viscoelastic fluid near the orthogonal stagnation-point on a vertical surface, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 50, pp. 1698-1705, 2011.
• F. Labropulu, Unsteady stagnation-point flow of a Newtonian fluid in the presence of a magnetic field, Int. J. Non-Linear Mechanics, Vol. 46, pp. 938-941, 2011.
• I. Husain, F. Labropulu and I. Pop, Two-diminsional oblique stagnation-point flow towards a stretching surface in a viscoelastic fluid, Central European Journal of Physics, Vo. 9(1), pp. 176-182, 2011.
• F. Labropulu, D. Li and I. Pop, Non-orthogonal stagnation-point flow towards a stretching surface in a non-Newtonian fluid with heat transfer, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 49, pp. 1042-1050, 2010.
•  D. Li, F. Labropulu and I. Pop, Oblique stagnation-point flow of a viscoelastic fluid with heat transfer, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Vol. 44, pp. 1024-1030, 2009.
•  I. Husain, F. Labropulu and M. Chinichian, MHD stagnation-point flow of a non-Newtonian fluid with slip, Far East J. Applied Mathematics, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 243-256, 2009.