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Ioannis Gkigkitzis

Departments of Mathematics and Biomedical Physics, East Carolina University, 124 Austin Building, East Fifth Street Greenville NC 27858-4353, United States

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Research ArticleOpen accessENHANCED CAPILLARY RISE OF WETTING LIQUIDS IN REDUCED GRAVITATIONAL SHIELDING UNDER MICROGRAVITY CONDITIONSGeorge D. Zouganelis, Ioannis Gkigkitzis, Ioannis HaranasWe study the capillary rise of wetting in liquids by slightly modifying Ponomarenko’s result, a recently derived and observed t1/3 law, without omitting the corresponding gravity term and therefore we find hnew (t)≅0.9085hPon (t) instead, which corresponds to a 9% difference. Furthermore, in order to examine the effect of corrected gravity, we extend the result on the surface of a … …Physics International, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 21 Jun 2014 · 7,902 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessKRETSCHMANN INVARIANT AND RELATIONS BETWEEN SPACETIME SINGULARITIES ENTROPY AND INFORMATIONIoannis Gkigkitzis, Ioannis Haranas, Omiros RagosCurvature invariants are scalar quantities constructed from tensors that represent curvature. One of the most basic polynomial curvature invariants in general relativity is the Kretschmann scalar. This study is an investigation of this curvature invariant and the connection of geometry to entropy and information of different metrics and black holes. The scalar gives the curvature of the spacetime as a … …Physics International, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 28 Mar 2014 · 11,920 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessThe Lense-Thirring Effect in the Anomalistic Period of Celestial BodiesIoannis Haranas, Omiros Ragos, Ioannis GkigkitzisIn the weak field and slow motion approximation, the general relativistic field equations are linearized, resembling those of the electromagnetic theory. In a way analogous to that of a moving charge generating a magnetic field, a mass-energy current can produce a gravitomagnetic field. In this contribution, the motion of a secondary celestial body is studied under the influence of the … …Space Science International, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 9 Dec 2013 · 8,459 accessesView PDF Cite