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Inaba Lab
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The lab visualizes invisible phenomena and connects mechanics to design.
AboutAbout the lab
Visualizing the invisible to design future experiences
The Inaba Lab begins its research by visualizing invisible phenomena and understanding them through mechanics.
It connects the knowledge gained to design, creating new systems and products through Smart Prototyping.
The lab studies phenomena involving fluids and structures, such as cavitation and water hammer, as well as material fracture, impact, and medical devices.
By combining high-speed imaging, numerical analysis, and prototyping, the lab aims to deliver new value to people and society.
Key terms
- Visualization
- Making phenomena that are too fast or too small to see visible through imaging and measurement
- Cavitation
- A phenomenon in which pressure drops in a liquid flow, bubbles form, and then collapse
- Fluid–structure interaction
- A phenomenon in which a flow and the deformation of a structure affect each other, so both must be solved together
ResearchResearch themes
Although the target fields are diverse, the lab shares a common approach: visualize phenomena, understand them mechanically, and connect them to society through design and prototyping. By combining experiments, visualization, theory, computation, and design, the lab covers everything from understanding complex phenomena to proposing new systems.
*Illustrative imageMultiphysics and Fluid–Structure Interaction
In cavitation, water hammer, fluid–structure interaction, and ultrasound, pressure waves, structural responses, bubble formation and collapse, and interfacial phenomena all occur at the same time. The lab combines visualization, measurement, and numerical analysis to clarify the mechanisms behind these phenomena and their effects on structures.
*Illustrative imageMaterials, Fracture, and Impact
Material damage appears in many forms, including local deformation, interfacial delamination, crack propagation, and impact response. The lab matches experimental observations with numerical analysis to investigate damage mechanisms, evaluation metrics, and how to reflect them in structural design.
*Illustrative imageHuman-Centered Engineering
In medical devices and everyday products, value depends not only on physical performance but also on safety, usability, sensation, and experience. The lab visualizes and evaluates spraying, contact, deformation, and fracture, and proposes devices and methods that deliver better experiences.
*Illustrative imageSmart Prototyping
This is the lab's own approach, integrating visualization, mechanics, simulation, AI, prototyping, and experiments. By moving back and forth between the digital and the physical, and by turning hypotheses into form and testing them early, it accelerates research and development.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Inaba Lab include faculty, as well as students and researchers with diverse academic specialties and cultural backgrounds.
- ProfessorKazuaki InabaPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Schlieren image of supersonic nitrogen flow” Jan Pavelka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Multiphysics and Fluid–Structure Interaction: “Cavitating-prop” U.S. Navy / Public domain (cropped)
- Materials, Fracture, and Impact: “Bolt-fatigue-fracture” Wang Hui-li, Qin Si-feng / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Human-Centered Engineering: “Radial spray ultrasonic nozzle” SonoTek Corp / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Smart Prototyping: “FZU 3Dprinting 1” René Volfík / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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