Transport Phenomena Control Lab

AboutAbout the lab

Understanding the transfer of fluid, heat, and mass in order to control the transport of momentum, energy, and mass

The Transport Phenomena Control Lab conducts research that integrates thermodynamics and transport phenomena, aiming to create new energy technologies and new academic fields.
Today's energy industry relies on complex operations in which multiple irreversible processes are combined, far from equilibrium.
Conventional approaches cannot control or predict all of these technologies.
On the lab's website, it is presented under the name "Transport Phenomena Control Group (Okano Lab)."

ResearchResearch themes

The Transport Phenomena Control Lab works to elucidate and control various transport phenomena, including those in chemical engineering processes. A principle that holds generally for open nonequilibrium systems has not yet been established, and the lab aims to establish a new way of thinking, with the "maximum entropy production principle" as a leading candidate.

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Integrating thermodynamics and transport phenomena↗

Based on the "maximum entropy production principle," considered a leading candidate for a principle that holds generally for open nonequilibrium systems, the lab continues its research through both experiments and theory, aiming to establish a new way of thinking.

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