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Tanaka Lab
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The lab draws on heat and fluid flow to study energy equipment and flows inside the body.
AboutAbout the lab
Flows inside the body, and technology that carries heat.
The Tanaka Lab builds on thermofluids engineering to develop equipment and systems that use energy effectively, and to study heat and mass transport inside the living body.
Flow inside the respiratory organs is studied through experiments and computer analysis, and blood flow inside cerebral aneurysms is studied through experiments using models.
At the same time, the lab works on developing heat pipes that carry heat using oscillating flow, and a system that stores and transports cold energy produced with nighttime electricity.
The lab welcomes visitors, and you can stop by the offices of the faculty members and the rooms of the students.
Key terms
- Thermofluids engineering
- A field of mechanical engineering that deals with how heat is transferred and how fluids flow, together
- Cerebral aneurysm
- A part of a blood vessel in the brain that has bulged out like a balloon. If it ruptures, it causes bleeding
- Wall shear stress
- The strength of the force with which a flow rubs along the wall of a pipe or blood vessel
ResearchResearch themes
The lab builds on thermofluids engineering to develop equipment and systems that use energy effectively, and to study heat and mass transport inside the living body. Combining experiments with computer analysis, it covers everything from flow inside the respiratory organs and blood vessels to devices that carry heat.
*Illustrative imageFlow inside the respiratory organs
The lab treats the respiratory organs as gas exchangers and heat exchangers, and examines their performance through numerical analysis and experiments. It also works on developing new biological energy devices that imitate the gas exchange and heat exchange mechanisms unique to living bodies.
*Illustrative imageBlood flow inside cerebral aneurysms
To help predict whether a cerebral aneurysm will rupture, the lab builds models, runs actual liquid through them, and examines the flow velocity distribution inside the aneurysm and the wall shear stress. PIV measurements are made not only with steady flow but also with blood flow waveforms and sinusoidal pulsatile flow.
*Illustrative imageAirflow inside the lungs
To predict how fine particles that enter the airways move, the lab builds 3D lung models from chest CT images of mice taken at SPring-8, a large synchrotron radiation facility, and examines airflow inside the lungs through numerical analysis and experiments.
*Illustrative imageSimulation of aerosol dispersal
As a measure against COVID-19, the lab carries out computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of flow inside medical facilities, visualizing how droplets travel, in research aimed at lowering the risk of infection.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Tanaka Lab are the faculty and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorGaku Tanaka
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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: “Summer School Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment ( )” École polytechnique - J.Barande (Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay Flickr account) / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Flow inside the respiratory organs: “Didactic model of respiratory system-FMVZ USP-12” Wagner Souza e Silva / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Blood flow inside cerebral aneurysms: “Mesures PIV au bassin d'essais du Centre Ifremer Manche Mer du Nord (Ifremer )” Olivier Dugornay (IFREMER, Pôle Images, Centre Bretagne - ZI de la Pointe du Diable - CS Plouzané, France) / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Airflow inside the lungs: “X-43A (Hyper - X) Mach 7 computational fluid dynamic (CFD)” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Simulation of aerosol dispersal: “Hopital Saint-Antoine Ventilation Shafts 1” Lionel Allorge / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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