Graduate School of Science and Engineering Mechanical Engineering

Applied and Engineering Mathematics Laboratory

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We pursue ever lasting romance named 'fluid flow'

Staff

Research Topics

• Generation mechanism of Bath-tub vortex.
• Pattern formation in Benard convection.
• Numerical simulation of flow in a channel with a suddenly expanded part.
• Stability of pipe flow.
• Stability of flow past an array of cylinders.
• Modeling of the earth's jet stream and its pattern formation.
• Bifurcation of the solution for flow in a spherical shell.
• Miniature car going upwind by wind propulsion.
• Hydraulically-driven toys.

Research Contents

• The interest our group covers a very wide range of fluid mechanics.
• In particular, our attention is focused on the stability of fluid flow.
• Instability of fluid flow accompanies a break in flow pattern symmetry.
• Oscillatory fluid motion may also occur as a result of flow instability.
• We can control such oscillatory fluid motion and a flow patten if the theory of flow stability is appropriately applied.
• Oscillation can also be intentionally induced in a flow by applying the knowledge of the flow stability.