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Yusuke Mukuhira, Associate Professor
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The Mukuhira Lab studies the forces acting on underground rock masses, and the movement of fractures and fluids within the rock. Combining rock mechanics and geophysics, the lab continues research related to the use of the subsurface, including energy development. Its topics include methods of measuring crustal stress, geological storage of carbon dioxide, development of methane hydrate and shale, and geothermal development. The lab aims to contribute to curbing global warming and to realizing a sustainable society.
Soshi Kawai, Professor
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The Kawai-Asada-Kawai Lab studies high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulation that makes it possible to predict and control the complex flows around aircraft and spacecraft. It aims to greatly reduce reliance on actual flight tests and bring digital innovation to the development of aircraft and spacecraft. Based on compressible fluid dynamics, it covers a broad range of fields, from computational science to data-driven science and machine learning. The lab conducts its research using cutting-edge supercomputers, including RIKEN's Fugaku.
Tomonaga Okabe, Professor
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The Okabe-Ryuzono-Mishima Lab studies how fiber-reinforced composite materials such as CFRP deform and fail. Composite materials are strong and stiff for their weight, and the next-generation passenger aircraft under development plan to use CFRP for major structures such as the fuselage and main wings. Compared with homogeneous materials such as metals and ceramics, composite materials fail in a much wider variety of ways, and methods for analyzing their damage have developed in their own right. In recent years, advances in computers have made it possible to examine in detail, on a computer, damage processes that experiments could capture only in fragments.
Naofumi Ohnishi, Professor
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The Ohnishi-Sato Lab studies the fluid dynamic properties of high-temperature gases and plasmas, and their applications. The lab pursues both computational research and experiments on the physical phenomena involved in high-speed flows of high-temperature gases and plasmas, and on space engineering technologies that use them. Using plasma actuators, thin devices made only of electrodes and a dielectric, the lab is advancing research toward the practical use of airflow control technology. It is developing a model that computes the whole process from the occurrence of discharge to the generation of ionic wind, aiming to clarify the phenomena that are key to improving performance.
Masayuki Takahashi, Associate Professor
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The Takahashi Lab studies the properties of plasma and the propulsion engineering technologies that use it. The lab uses laser and millimeter-wave beams to run experiments on rockets that fly without carrying fuel. For electric thrusters such as Hall thrusters, the lab investigates the phenomena inside them through numerical computer simulation. Through both experiments and computation, the lab proposes new propulsion technologies that make use of the space environment.
Kai Fukami, Associate Professor
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The Fukami Lab uses data science and machine learning to analyze flows that change from moment to moment. The lab combines these with complex network theory, information theory, and computational fluid dynamics simulations. The flows studied are those that appear around small aircraft, passenger aircraft, passenger cars, and industrial fluid machinery. The lab aims to build an academic and technological foundation for understanding and controlling such flows in real time.
Aiko Yakeno, Associate Professor
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The Yakeno Lab studies thermofluid phenomena that are key to aerospace vehicles, such as hypersonic flows and the laminar-turbulent transition within them. By combining mathematical science, state-of-the-art numerical computation, and experimental techniques, the lab tackles flow phenomena that are difficult to predict. The lab is conducting research to demonstrate drag reduction by distributed micro-roughness (DMR), a patented technology. Using one of the world's largest magnetic suspension and balance systems and a ballistic range, the lab works to create technologies for reusable rockets and practical hypersonic vehicles.
Akihiro Hayakawa, Professor
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The Hayakawa Lab studies combustion phenomena in the High-Speed Reacting Flow research division of the Institute of Fluid Science. The lab aims to put to use carbon-free fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia, which emit no carbon dioxide when burned. It elucidates combustion in detail from every aspect of flow, thermophysical properties, and chemical reactions, and connects the results to applications in practical combustion devices. The research makes use of some of the world's leading facilities, including combustion tests in a supersonic wind tunnel and combustion experiments in high-pressure environments.
Hiroki Nagai, Professor
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The Nagai-Ikami Lab studies thermal and flow phenomena involved in next-generation spacecraft, as well as technologies to control them. The lab works to clarify aerodynamic heating and aerodynamic phenomena when spacecraft reenter the atmosphere. Its goal is to create new thermal control methods for next-generation spacecraft that operate for long periods in extreme thermal environments. It also aims to realize new planetary exploration systems that use fluid forces, typified by Mars airplanes.
Yoshiaki Abe, Associate Professor
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Abe Lab uses "aeronautical physics" as its keyword and aims to uncover and apply complex coupled physical phenomena related to aeronautical engineering and neighboring fields. Its research is divided into four areas: unsteady fluid analysis, aeroelastic analysis and design of aircraft, multiphysics analysis of advanced aircraft materials, and data-driven coupled mathematical models. The lab also works on aircraft design using CFRP and on the aeroelastic design of offshore wind turbine blades. Students from other universities are also welcome when joining the lab in the master's and doctoral programs.
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