About our group
We are surrounded by fluids, which are continually deformable
substances such as air and water. The motions of fluids
are usually complicated, and it seems difficult to understand,
predict, or control them. Our group, the Fluid Mechanics
Group in the Graduate School of Engineering Science in Osaka
University, is challenging to unveil simple and beautiful
physics behind such complicated flow phenomena. Our aim is twofold.
One is to develop a new science of fluid mechanics. The other
is for engineering applications on the basis of scientific
findings. Namely, once we understated the principle of a
complicated flow phenomenon, we may effectively develop a
technology not relying on trial and error. To achieve
these objectives, we are studying various flow phenomena by means
of the effective combinations of theoretical analyses, numerical
simulations on modern supercomputers and laboratory experiments
using state-of-art measurement techniques.