Density gradient
Jet fluid (passive scalar)
LES of jet mixing
in supersonic crossflows
Kawai & Lele, AIAA J. 2010
Center for Next Generation Aircraft Research
Society for high Reynolds number aerodynamics
Welcome to Kawai-Asada Laboratory
Welcome to Kawai Laboratory (Aerodynamic Design Research Group) at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University.
Our research combines theoretical analysis, computational physics, data science, and high-performance computing to develop novel high-fidelity numerical simulation methodologies. These methods enable us to uncover the fundamental flow physics of complex, compressible, multi-scale, and multi-physics flows in aerospace engineering, as well as to create next-generation aircraft aerodynamic design methods. Our interests span a broad range of topics in fluid mechanics, with a focus on compressible flow, turbulence, shock waves, mixing and combustion, high-fidelity numerical methods, data science, physical modeling, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and related areas in aerospace engineering. For details on current and past projects, please see Research.
Our group is also engaged in the MEXT Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku, focusing on digital transformation (DX) in aircraft development through digital flight. Using the world-class computing power of Fugaku, we demonstrate aircraft digital flight by integrating high-fidelity simulations with data-driven science. In collaboration with the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, we are advancing innovative DX technologies for next-generation aircraft design and extending the outcomes of this research to a wide range of industrial products.
Compressible flow physics and computational engineering in the Kawai Laboratory
Welcome to Kawai Laboratory (Aerodynamic Design Research Group) at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University.
Our research combines theoretical analysis, computational physics, data science, and high-performance computing to develop novel high-fidelity numerical simulation methodologies. These methods enable us to uncover the fundamental flow physics of complex, compressible, multi-scale, and multi-physics flows in aerospace engineering, as well as to create next-generation aircraft aerodynamic design methods. Our interests span a broad range of topics in fluid mechanics, with a focus on compressible flow, turbulence, shock waves, mixing and combustion, high-fidelity numerical methods, data science, physical modeling, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and related areas in aerospace engineering. For details on current and past projects, please see Research.
Our group is also engaged in the MEXT Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku, focusing on digital transformation (DX) in aircraft development through digital flight. Using the world-class computing power of Fugaku, we demonstrate aircraft digital flight by integrating high-fidelity simulations with data-driven science. In collaboration with the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, we are advancing innovative DX technologies for next-generation aircraft design and extending the outcomes of this research to a wide range of industrial products.
Compressible flow physics and computational engineering in the Kawai Laboratory
What's New
| 2025.09.05 |
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Kawai has been invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 18th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics (ACFM 2025), to be held in Seoul, South Korea, from September 10 to 13. |
| 2025.09.05 |
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Kawai has been invited to give a talk at the Joint Workshop on Data-Driven Turbulence Modeling, co-organized by the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea, and the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The workshop will be held in Gwangju, South Korea, from September 7 to 9. |
| 2025.08.07 |
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Kawai delivered a guest lecture at Wakayama Prefectural Koyo High School as part of a science cafe co-sponsored by the Science Council of Japan. |
| 2025.08.01 |
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Kawai serves as a committee member of the AIAA Jet Noise Prediction Workshop, contributing to the advancement of LES-based predictive methodologies in aeroacoustics. |
| 2025.07.31 |
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Twenty junior high school students visited Kawai Lab during the Tohoku University Open Campus Lab Tour! Kawai gave a presentation on computer simulations of fluid flows. |
| 2025.07.17 |
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Homma and Hattori presented their work at The 15th International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM 2025) in Montreal, Canada. |