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Himeno Lab
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The lab investigates the flow and heat inside jet engines and rocket engines.
AboutAbout the lab
Unraveling flow and heat inside engines through experiments and computation
The Himeno Lab studies flow and heat phenomena that occur inside jet engines and rocket engines.
Its subjects include jet engines in use today, future supersonic and hypersonic engines, gas turbines, and liquid rocket engines.
Using a wide range of experiments, numerical analysis, and theoretical analysis, the lab investigates how flows become unstable and how flow relates to engine performance.
The lab aims to apply the fundamental knowledge gained in this way to engine design.
Key terms
- Gas turbine
- A prime mover that compresses air, burns fuel, and uses the force of the resulting gas to spin a turbine wheel. Jet engines belong to this family.
- Numerical analysis
- A method of solving, on a computer, the equations that describe phenomena such as flow, in order to reproduce and study those phenomena.
- Microgravity
- A state, such as in outer space, in which the effect of gravity is almost absent.
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The lab focuses on flow phenomena observed inside the components that make up aircraft and spacecraft engines. It also studies gas-liquid two-phase flow, addressing the question of how to handle liquid fuel in space.
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MembersFaculty
The Himeno Lab consists of faculty members, academic support staff, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHimeno TakehiroPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorAkihiro HattoriPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorNaohiro Kojima
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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: “Compressor case from turbojet” Olivier Cleynen / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Gas-liquid two-phase flow in microgravity: “Dropphysics” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Komurasaki-Koizumi Lab): “Hall Effect Thruster in a vacuum chamber” EXOTRAIL SA / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ogawa-Odagiri Lab): “BepiColombo spacecraft model” National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Teramoto-Okamoto Lab): “Shuttle Main Engine Test Firing” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Imamura Lab (Aircraft Design Lab)): “A340 wake turbulence simulation” Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt / CC BY 3.0 de (cropped)
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