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Kaoru Maruta, Professor
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The Morii Lab studies the behavior of thermal fluids involving combustion and chemical reactions. With the recirculation of heat and mass as a keyword, the lab approaches the fundamentals of combustion phenomena through both experiments and numerical computation. It also investigates the ignitability of substances used in familiar devices, such as refrigerants and the electrolytes of lithium-ion batteries. The lab's website is shared with the lab of Professor Kaoru Maruta, and the lab is presented there under the name "Maruta/Morii Lab."
Kazuhisa Sato, Professor
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The Sato-Yamaguchi Lab studies "energy circulation systems" for achieving carbon neutrality. Using mechanics of materials and strength of materials as its academic foundation, the lab works on fuel cells that generate electricity from hydrogen and batteries that store electricity. It is also developing electrolysis cells that produce hydrogen from steam and all-solid-state batteries for use in space. The lab is also developing evaluation techniques for battery materials, which are essential for bringing new batteries into practical use quickly.
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.
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