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Complex Fluid Physics Lab
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The lab tackles the physics of complex fluids such as colloids, glasses, and bacteria.
AboutAbout the lab
Unsolved physics in everyday materials.
The Complex Fluid Physics Lab studies physical phenomena that appear in colloids, granular materials, bacteria, glasses, and more.
Its subjects range widely, from everyday materials to cutting-edge materials and living systems, and their nonlinear, nonequilibrium behavior still poses problems that are not yet well understood.
The main approach is numerical simulation, and the lab also uses molecular dynamics and fluid simulations that incorporate machine learning and GPUs.
The lab also has experimental equipment such as rheometers and confocal microscopes, and plans to develop research that connects simulation and experiment.
Key terms
- Soft matter
- A collective name for soft, easily deformable materials such as colloids, polymers, and liquid crystals
- Molecular dynamics simulation
- A method that uses a computer to follow the motion of atoms and molecules one by one in order to study the behavior of a material
- Hydrodynamic interaction
- The effect in which the motion of one object creates a flow in the surrounding fluid, and that flow moves another object
ResearchResearch themes
The lab explores nonlinear, nonequilibrium phenomena hidden in a wide range of soft matter and complex liquids, from colloids, granular materials, and bacteria to glasses. Centered on numerical simulation, it takes on the challenge of finding unsolved problems and unknown phenomena.
*Illustrative imageThe Mystery of the Glass Transition
When a liquid is cooled rapidly, it does not crystallize but solidifies with a disordered structure and becomes a glass. Focusing on "dynamic heterogeneity," in which mobile and immobile regions appear unevenly, the lab uses molecular dynamics simulations to approach the mechanism behind it.
*Illustrative imageGlass Flows Easily
It has generally been thought that viscosity drops when flow is fast, but in glass, viscosity drops greatly even under very slow flow. Because a slight distortion of the average structure changes the relaxation time, the lab has quantitatively explained this anomalous behavior.
*Illustrative imageConnections Through Fluid
When you move one object floating in water, it creates a flow, and the surrounding objects begin to move as well. Through numerical experiments with a minimal model, the lab investigates how this hydrodynamic interaction works in a group of self-propelled microorganisms.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Complex Fluid Physics Lab include faculty, international researchers, administrative assistants, doctoral and master's students, research trainees, research fellows, and collaborating researchers.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorAkira FurukawaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorYuki TakahaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Colloid lithography, artificial opal, polystyrene” Simpik / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The Mystery of the Glass Transition: “Amorphous vs Crystalline” CPNikadee / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Glass Flows Easily: “Shearing geometries” Nzjacobmartin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Connections Through Fluid: “Escherichia coli flagella TEM” E. H. White, Content Provider: Peggy S. Hayes / Public domain (cropped)
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