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 draws from theoretical analysis, computational physics, data science, and high-performance computing to develop novel high-fidelity numerical simulation techniques for uncovering the fundamental flow physics underlying complex compressible, multi-scale and, multi-physics flows in aerospace engineering and also for developing next-generation aircraft aerodynamic design tools. Our research interests broadly include in the fields of fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on compressible flow, turbulence, shock waves, mixing and combustion, high-fidelity numerical methods, physical modeling, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and other related topics in the aerospace engineering. Details of the on-going and past research topics are in Research.
Our group is also working on MEXT Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku, Research toward DX in aircraft development led by digital flight. Using the supercomputer Fugaku, this research demonstrates the aircraft digital flight using high-fidelity simulation and data-driven science. In collaboration with the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, we also promote innovative DX in the future aircraft design process and apply the results 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 draws from theoretical analysis, computational physics, data science, and high-performance computing to develop novel high-fidelity numerical simulation techniques for uncovering the fundamental flow physics underlying complex compressible, multi-scale and, multi-physics flows in aerospace engineering and also for developing next-generation aircraft aerodynamic design tools. Our research interests broadly include in the fields of fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on compressible flow, turbulence, shock waves, mixing and combustion, high-fidelity numerical methods, physical modeling, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and other related topics in the aerospace engineering. Details of the on-going and past research topics are in Research.
Our group is also working on MEXT Program for Promoting Researches on the Supercomputer Fugaku, Research toward DX in aircraft development led by digital flight. Using the supercomputer Fugaku, this research demonstrates the aircraft digital flight using high-fidelity simulation and data-driven science. In collaboration with the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, we also promote innovative DX in the future aircraft design process and apply the results of this research to a wide range of industrial products.
Compressible flow physics and computational engineering in the Kawai Laboratory
What's New
| 2024.12.03 |
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The Fugaku Aircraft Project under the Program for Promoting Research on the Supercomputer Fugaku co-organizes the 8th HPC workshop at the University of Tokyo, and Kawai presented the latest results of the Fugaku Aircraft Project. |
| 2024.11.26 |
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Kawai, Iwatani, Maejima, and Itsui presented their works at The APS 77th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD) in Salt Lake City UT, the United States. |
| 2024.11.21 |
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Kawai was invited to give a talk at the Workshop on Coherent Structures for Turbulence Modeling organized by Los Alamos National Laboratory, held in Santa Fe, United States. |
| 2024.11.20 |
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Nagata and Yoshida presented their works at International Conference on Flow Dynamics 2024 in Sendai, Japan. |
| 2024.11.15 |
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We visited Prof. Susumu Goto's lab at Osaka University and had a joint seminar. Iwatani (D2), Maejima (D1), and Itsui (M1) gave talks and exchanged opinions and ideas. |
| 2024.11.13 |
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Kawai was invited to give a talk at The 1st Computational Science Forum 2024 (Online). |
| 2024.09.27 |
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Congratulations to Homma for receiving the Research Fellowship for Young Scientist DC1 and Fujii and Wakimura for receiving the Research Fellowship for Young Scientist PD of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)! |