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Dimitris Manolas Mechanical Engineer, PhD | Partner
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Dimitris Manolas holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA, 2007) and a PhD in wind turbine servo-hydro-aero-elasticity from the same institution (2015). He continued as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Aerodynamics (2015–2019), and served as a part-time professor, teaching Wind Turbine Aero-elasticity at postgraduate level (2016–2024). Since January 2018, he has been a Partner at iWind Renewables S.A., providing advanced consulting services across the wind energy sector.
He has been working in the wind energy sector since 2009. His expertise covers the full spectrum of wind turbine analysis and design — from onshore to offshore applications — with particular interest in aero-elasticity, offshore floating structures, and coupled system dynamics. He has developed iWind’s in-house servo-hydro-aero-elastic analysis suite hGAST/iGAST, the BEM-based frequency-domain hydrodynamic solver freFLOW, and the fully nonlinear potential solver hFLOW.
He has authored more than 50 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has participated in over 10 national and EU-funded R&D projects on energy systems. His commercial experience spans more than 100 projects worldwide, covering aero-elastic stability and loads analysis, floater and mooring system design, lifetime extension and fatigue assessment, technical due diligence, and SCADA data analysis.
He has been working in the wind energy sector since 2009. His expertise covers the full spectrum of wind turbine analysis and design — from onshore to offshore applications — with particular interest in aero-elasticity, offshore floating structures, and coupled system dynamics. He has developed iWind’s in-house servo-hydro-aero-elastic analysis suite hGAST/iGAST, the BEM-based frequency-domain hydrodynamic solver freFLOW, and the fully nonlinear potential solver hFLOW.
He has authored more than 50 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has participated in over 10 national and EU-funded R&D projects on energy systems. His commercial experience spans more than 100 projects worldwide, covering aero-elastic stability and loads analysis, floater and mooring system design, lifetime extension and fatigue assessment, technical due diligence, and SCADA data analysis.