AKITA Prefectural University
Faculty of Systems Science and Technology
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Laboratory for Dynamics with Application of ElectroMagnetic Fields

research objectives

The objective of our laboratory is to stimulate technical and material innovation in terms of computer simulations for physical phenomena which are extremely difficult from experimental approaches.

Main Research Themes

Magnetic Suspensions
Microfluids Engineering
Environmental Fluids Engineering
Jet-inducible dielectric (jet-IDE) fluid
Computational Chemistry of Interfacial Phenomena
Colloid Physics Engineering
Molecular Simulations (MC. MD, BD, DPD, Lattice Boltzmann)
Superconducting Highly Efficient Systems

Staff

Professor: Akira SATOH

Speciality: Micro-molecular simulations, Colloid Physics Engineering,
Microfluids Engineering, Environmental Fluids Engineering, Ferrofluids
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Assistant Professor: Muneo FUTAMURA

Speciality: Mechanical Engineering, Vibration Engineering, Superconductivity, Magnetic field analysis
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Student

3rd grader of the Doctoral Programme

Takeru YAMANOUCHI
Aggregation phenomena of a magnetic particle suspension in non-uniform magnetic fields

Senior / 4th year university student

Sakai KATSUYOSHI
Development of a novel actuator using Jet-induciable dielectric fluid.

Yuma SAKAKIBARA
Research on improving the performance of superconducting magnetic bearings.

Kuren TSUCHIDA
Characteristics of magnetic levitation using superconducting tape stacks.

Junior / 3rd year university student

Kotaro ISHIGAMI

Daichi MATSUKUBO

AKITA Prefectural University Faculty of Systems Science and Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering