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Chihiro Inoue, Associate Professor
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The Inoue Lab studies propulsion engineering, including aircraft engines, rocket engines, and engines for satellites. Combining visualization experiments with high-speed cameras, numerical simulation, and theoretical modeling, the lab analyzes in detail the thermal and fluid phenomena inside engines. It brings the resulting findings together and links them to performance prediction and optimization of real engines. The lab studies atomization and phase change of liquid metal to obtain the high-quality metal powder essential for building aerospace and automotive engines. It also covers everyday physics, such as the chain-like branching of sparklers and metal sparks.
Kenichi Abe, Professor
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The Abe-Kuya Lab studies computational methods and turbulence models for computational fluid dynamics, and applications of quantum computers to fluid dynamics. The lab works on using quantum annealing for flow computation, shape optimization, and machine learning, and on methods that compute stably without adding numerical viscosity. In January 2025, Associate Professor Yuichi Kuya joined, and the lab was relaunched in a new form.
Koji Takahashi, Professor
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The Takahashi-Li-Teshima Lab aims for a new world that skillfully harnesses heat and energy, and conducts research under the keywords "nanomaterials," "phase interfaces," and "MEMS technology." Heat and energy technologies have long been important in aerospace vehicles, with many applications such as thermal management of hydrogen-powered and electric aircraft and energy self-sufficiency in space. The nanoscale world holds much unknown science that existing theory cannot explain. The lab uses advanced experimental equipment, microscopes, and analysis techniques to uncover such unexplained phenomena experimentally. Its goal is to create a technological foundation that could transform the macroscopic world significantly.
Shigeki Yashiro, Professor
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The Yashiro Lab studies advanced composite materials used in aerospace vehicles, from forming through to damage and fracture. Lightweight structural design for aircraft that fully exploits the characteristics of lightweight, high-strength, high-stiffness advanced composites has not yet been achieved. To address this, the lab models everything from forming through damage progression and fracture as the life of a structural material, and conducts research to improve the reliability of materials and structures. Based on findings from experiments and analysis, the lab aims to move away from design methods that assume conventional metals, and to propose and realize design technologies that make the most of the characteristics of composite materials.
Shinji Hokamoto, Professor
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The Hokamoto-Bando Lab studies how to fly and maneuver drones, satellites, and deep-space probes, based on control and dynamics theory. Rather than piecing together existing systems and theories, the lab creates new theories and concepts that have not existed before, aiming to develop systems that play active roles in space and aviation. For autonomous drone flight, the lab works on estimating the distance to and shape of obstacles using vision inspired by insect compound eyes. For deep-space probes, the lab aims to reduce the computational cost of mission trajectories through trajectory design that uses the geometric features of the multi-body problem.
Shinichiro Higashino, Professor
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The Higashino-Harada Lab studies the aerodynamic characteristics and autonomous flight of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as air traffic management for passenger aircraft. Since 1984, the lab has studied methods for estimating the aerodynamic characteristics of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft, mainly through flight experiments. In recent years, the lab has also worked on autonomous flight of unmanned aircraft and its advancement, using wind tunnel testing alongside flight experiments. Unmanned aircraft that the lab designed and developed itself are used for scientific surveys of aerosols, magnetic fields, and more overseas, including in Antarctica, Thailand, Mongolia, and Ethiopia.
Toshiya Hanada, Professor
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The Spacecraft Dynamics Lab conducts research on space debris, orbit and attitude estimation and control, optical observation, and microsatellites. Applying astrodynamics to the problem of space debris (also called space junk), the lab develops tools to evaluate the stability of debris distributions and the effectiveness of measures for preventing debris generation and remediating the orbital environment. The lab also works on observation planning to efficiently discover unknown debris, and on algorithms to detect moving artificial objects in captured images. Students lead the research and development of the microsatellite “Q-Li,” aiming to establish a technique that works backward from the light curve, which represents an object's brightness over time, to estimate the object's motion and changes.
Fujio Tsumori, Professor
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The Tsumori-Tsushima Lab studies structural and functional materials for aerospace, and how to process them. The lab works on developing 3D printing technology, microfabrication using nanopowders, and actuating structures made of soft materials. Recently, the lab has also put effort into research inspired by living things (Bio-inspired Engineering). The lab also conducts analytical and experimental research that considers aerodynamics and structures together.
Darren Wall, Associate Professor
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The WALL Lab studies fluid dynamics problems using the ideas of dynamical systems, a field of applied mathematics. In particular, it investigates how shear flows transition from laminar to turbulent and how turbulence is sustained. Associate Professor Darren Wall mainly teaches mathematics courses and is also involved in the internationalization of the university.
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