Nanoscale Flow Research Division

Field distinction Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant professor
Non-Equilibrium Molecular Gas Flow Laboratory Concurrent Professor : Taku Ohara
Molecular Heat Transfer Laboratory Professor : Taku Ohara
Assistant Professor : Donatas SURBLYS
Quantum Nanoscale Flow Systems Laboratory Professor : Takashi Tokumasu
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor : Naoya Uene
Biological Nanoscale Reactive Flow Laboratory Professor : Takehiko Sato
Assistant Professor : Siwei LIU
Molecular Composite Flow Laboratory Concurrent Professor : Taku Ohara
Associate Professor : Gota Kikugawa
Biomolecular Flow Systems Laboratory Concurrent Professor : Takashi Tokumasu
Associate Professor : Takuya Mabuchi
Nanoscale Flow Application Laboratory (Visiting Professor)

The Nanoscale Flow Research Division was established to advance basic science and to explore new R&D aread related to nano/microscale thermal and fluid phenomena and thermophysical properties. Creation of novel medical technologies and development of innovative nanoscale thermal and fluid devices are pursued through the progress and deepening of science, as well as investigation of mass-momentum-energy transfer mechanisms of scales of electrons-molecules and new discoveries of nanoscale flow characteristics in living bodies and nano-devices.

  • ■Physical and transport phenomena in non-equilibrium gas flow and their applications
  • ■Nanoscale flow and interfacial phenomena governing macroscopic thermal and fluid properties
  • ■Physical mechanism of the quantum effect of fluid molecules on flow dynamics
  • ■Reactions, thermal flow dynamics of plasma flow and their application for medical engineering
  • ■Transport phenomena in large-scale composite systems governed by molecular physics and their applications
  • ■Elucidation of biomolecular nanoflow phenomena and their application to artificial molecular systems
  • ■Development of novel flow devices utilizing unique nanoscale flow and interfacial phenomena