A spacecraft is exposed to various thermal-fluid environments from the launch to the period in space and return to the Earth. Missions of our laboratory are understanding of aerodynamic heating and aerodynamic characteristics in re-entry to the atmosphere, bringing about a breakthrough in a realization of next-generation thermal control system for spacecraft, and realization of a new exploration system (Planetary Locomotion) which utilizes the fluid-dynamic forces such as the airplane for other planets with the atmosphere through this research.
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WHAT'S NEW
February 24, 2025 New
Ritsuki Mise (M1)'s research paper at AIAA SciTech 2025 was selected as the "AIAA Showcase".
https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.2514%252F6.2025-1635/reader
January 10, 2025
Masaki Okawa (D1) received the Best Presentation Award for Young Researcher at The 21st International Conference on Flow Dynamics.
Click here to read press release from Tohoku University.
January 6, 2025
Masaki Okawa (D1) and Ritsuki MIse (M1) made oral presentation in AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum.
December 20, 2024
Asst. Prof. Ikami, Masaki Okawa (D1), Jinyoung Ted Kim (D1), Shun Okuyama (M2) and Yuki Ito (M1) made presentation in 20th Forum on Molecular Imaging.
December 17, 2024
Rika Kimura (M2), Ryoya Hosaka (M1) and Daichi Yamashita(M1) made oral presentation in Symposium on Flight Mechanics and Astrodynamics 2024.
November 29, 2024
Asst. Prof. Ikami and Masaki Okawa (D1) made oral presentation in 2024 conference on theoritical and applide Mechanics.
November 20, 2024
Daichi Yamashita (M1) received the Best Presentation Award for Students Session at The 21st International Conference on Flow Dynamics.
Click here to read press release from Tohoku university.
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November 20, 2024 New
Takeshi Yokouchi (D2), Masaki Okawa (D1), Jinyoung Ted Kim (D1), Gabriel Lim (D1), Shun Okuyama (M2), Ayumu Kawaguchi (M2), Rika Kimura (M2), Haruka Kurahashi (M2), Ryoya Hosaka (M1), Ritsuki Mise (M1), Daichi Yamshita (M1) and Yuma Yamagishi (B4) made presentation in The 21st International Conference on Flow Dynamics.
November 5, 2024 New
Rika Kimura (M2) made oral presentation in 68th Space Sciences and Technology Conference.
October 18, 2024 New
Daichi Yamashita (M1) made oral presentation in The 37th Computational Mechanics Conference.
October 15, 2024 New
Ritsuki Mise (M1) made oral presentation in 62nd Aircraft Symposium.
September 25, 2024 New
Haruka Kurahashi (M2) made oral presentation in Meeting of Japan Society of Fuluid Mechanics.
September 4, 2024 New
Ayumu Kwaguchi (M2) made oral presentation in Multiphase Flow Symposium 2024.
August 26, 2024 New!
Takechi Yokouchi (D2) made oral presentation in Thermal & Fuluid Analysis Workshop 2024.
August 22, 2024 New
Small balloon experiment “High Altitude Test of Propeller Propulsor for Mars Aircraft (HIGHPER)” was conducted.
Click here to read JAXA ISAS press release.
July 24, 2024
Ayumu Kawaguchi (M2) and Daichi Yamashita (M1) made oral presentation in 53rd International Conference on Environmental Systems 2024.
July 21, 2024
Masaki Okawa (D1) made oral presentation in 52nd Visualization Symposium/
July 5, 2024
Haruka Kurahashi (M2) made on oral presentation in 56th Fluid Dynamics Conference.
January 10, 2020
Hideki Kiritani (M2) and Tsubasa Ikami (M2) made oral presentations in AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.
December 15, 2019
Takuya Adachi (D2), Takumi Hirata (M2) and Hiroki Nagasawa (M2) made oral presentations in The 2nd Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference.
December 13, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M2) made a poster presentation in 15th Forum on Molecular Imaging.
December 10, 2019
Takuya Adachi (D2), Masayuki Nomura (D2), Hiroto Tanaka (M2), Hideki Kiritani (M2) and Issei Mamiya (M2) made oral presentations in Symposium on Flight Mechanics and Astrodynamics R1
November 7, 2019
Issei Mamiya (M2) received the Best Presentation Award in 15th International Students/Young Birds Seminar on Multi-Scale Flow dynamics, 16th International Conference on Flow Dynamics.
November 6, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M2), Hideki Kiritani (M2), Hiroto Tanaka (M2), Hiroki Nagasawa (M2) and Issei Mamiya (M2) made poster presentations in 16th International Conference on Flow Dynamics. Also, Prof. Hiroki Nagai, Asst. Prof. Koji Fujita and Postdoctoral Fellow Xinyu Chang made oral presentations.
October 16, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M2) made an oral presentation in 57th Aircraft Symposium.
September 25, 2019
Issei Mamiya (M2) made an poster presentation in D&S Contest held by JSME Desgin and Systems Divition.
September 18, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami(M1) and Naoki Tanaka (M1) made poster presentations in 7th Japanese-German Joint Seminar on Molecular Imaging Technology.
August 25, 2019
Takuya Adachi (D2) and Hiroto Tanaka (M2) made oral and poster presentations in Thermal and Fluid Analysis Workshop 2019.
August 5, 2019
Takuya Adachi (D2) and Takumi Hirata (M2) made oral and poster presentations in Multiphase Flow Symposium 2019 (Japanese).
July 26, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M1) made an oral presentation in 47th Visualization Symposium and received a Best Presentation Award.
July 3, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M1) made an oral presentation in 51th Fluid Dynamics Conference and received a Best Presentation Award.
Ritsuki Mise (M1)'s research paper at AIAA SciTech 2025 was selected as the "AIAA Showcase".
https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.2514%252F6.2025-1635/reader
January 10, 2025
Masaki Okawa (D1) received the Best Presentation Award for Young Researcher at The 21st International Conference on Flow Dynamics.
Click here to read press release from Tohoku University.
January 6, 2025
Masaki Okawa (D1) and Ritsuki MIse (M1) made oral presentation in AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum.
December 20, 2024
Asst. Prof. Ikami, Masaki Okawa (D1), Jinyoung Ted Kim (D1), Shun Okuyama (M2) and Yuki Ito (M1) made presentation in 20th Forum on Molecular Imaging.
December 17, 2024
Rika Kimura (M2), Ryoya Hosaka (M1) and Daichi Yamashita(M1) made oral presentation in Symposium on Flight Mechanics and Astrodynamics 2024.
November 29, 2024
Asst. Prof. Ikami and Masaki Okawa (D1) made oral presentation in 2024 conference on theoritical and applide Mechanics.
November 20, 2024
Daichi Yamashita (M1) received the Best Presentation Award for Students Session at The 21st International Conference on Flow Dynamics.
Click here to read press release from Tohoku university.
November 20, 2024 New
Takeshi Yokouchi (D2), Masaki Okawa (D1), Jinyoung Ted Kim (D1), Gabriel Lim (D1), Shun Okuyama (M2), Ayumu Kawaguchi (M2), Rika Kimura (M2), Haruka Kurahashi (M2), Ryoya Hosaka (M1), Ritsuki Mise (M1), Daichi Yamshita (M1) and Yuma Yamagishi (B4) made presentation in The 21st International Conference on Flow Dynamics.
November 5, 2024 New
Rika Kimura (M2) made oral presentation in 68th Space Sciences and Technology Conference.
October 18, 2024 New
Daichi Yamashita (M1) made oral presentation in The 37th Computational Mechanics Conference.
October 15, 2024 New
Ritsuki Mise (M1) made oral presentation in 62nd Aircraft Symposium.
September 25, 2024 New
Haruka Kurahashi (M2) made oral presentation in Meeting of Japan Society of Fuluid Mechanics.
September 4, 2024 New
Ayumu Kwaguchi (M2) made oral presentation in Multiphase Flow Symposium 2024.
August 26, 2024 New!
Takechi Yokouchi (D2) made oral presentation in Thermal & Fuluid Analysis Workshop 2024.
August 22, 2024 New
Small balloon experiment “High Altitude Test of Propeller Propulsor for Mars Aircraft (HIGHPER)” was conducted.
Click here to read JAXA ISAS press release.
July 24, 2024
Ayumu Kawaguchi (M2) and Daichi Yamashita (M1) made oral presentation in 53rd International Conference on Environmental Systems 2024.
July 21, 2024
Masaki Okawa (D1) made oral presentation in 52nd Visualization Symposium/
July 5, 2024
Haruka Kurahashi (M2) made on oral presentation in 56th Fluid Dynamics Conference.
January 10, 2020
Hideki Kiritani (M2) and Tsubasa Ikami (M2) made oral presentations in AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.
December 15, 2019
Takuya Adachi (D2), Takumi Hirata (M2) and Hiroki Nagasawa (M2) made oral presentations in The 2nd Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference.
December 13, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M2) made a poster presentation in 15th Forum on Molecular Imaging.
December 10, 2019
Takuya Adachi (D2), Masayuki Nomura (D2), Hiroto Tanaka (M2), Hideki Kiritani (M2) and Issei Mamiya (M2) made oral presentations in Symposium on Flight Mechanics and Astrodynamics R1
November 7, 2019
Issei Mamiya (M2) received the Best Presentation Award in 15th International Students/Young Birds Seminar on Multi-Scale Flow dynamics, 16th International Conference on Flow Dynamics.
November 6, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M2), Hideki Kiritani (M2), Hiroto Tanaka (M2), Hiroki Nagasawa (M2) and Issei Mamiya (M2) made poster presentations in 16th International Conference on Flow Dynamics. Also, Prof. Hiroki Nagai, Asst. Prof. Koji Fujita and Postdoctoral Fellow Xinyu Chang made oral presentations.
October 16, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M2) made an oral presentation in 57th Aircraft Symposium.
September 25, 2019
Issei Mamiya (M2) made an poster presentation in D&S Contest held by JSME Desgin and Systems Divition.
September 18, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami(M1) and Naoki Tanaka (M1) made poster presentations in 7th Japanese-German Joint Seminar on Molecular Imaging Technology.
August 25, 2019
Takuya Adachi (D2) and Hiroto Tanaka (M2) made oral and poster presentations in Thermal and Fluid Analysis Workshop 2019.
August 5, 2019
Takuya Adachi (D2) and Takumi Hirata (M2) made oral and poster presentations in Multiphase Flow Symposium 2019 (Japanese).
July 26, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M1) made an oral presentation in 47th Visualization Symposium and received a Best Presentation Award.
July 3, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M1) made an oral presentation in 51th Fluid Dynamics Conference and received a Best Presentation Award.
June 28, 2019
Hiroto Tanaka (M2) was adopted as the Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced
Research and Education (DIARE) master course students!
Tohoku Univ. DIARE Website
June 20, 2019
Hiroto Tanaka (M2) made an oral presentation in 32nd International Symposium
on Space Technology and Science.
April 2, 2019
New menbers joined our labratory.
March 26, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami received an Award of the Dean (School of Engineering, Tohoku University)！
March 11, 2019
Mars helicopter workshop has been held.
March 8, 2019
Tsubasa Ikami (M1) made an poster presentation in 14th Forum on Molecular
Imaging.
March 5, 2019
Hideki Kiritani (M2) and Tatsuya Tonai (M2) made oral presentations in Symposium on Shock Waves in Japan H30.
January 7, 2019
Asst. Prof. Fujita, Masayuki Nomura (D1), Kensuke Kanou (M2) and Tsubasa Ikami (M1) made oral presentations in 2019 AIAA SciTech.
December 11, 2018
Masayuki Nomura(D1) made an oral presentation in Symposium on Flight Mechanics
and Astrodynamics H30
November 16, 2018
Masayuki Nomura(D1), Kensuke Kanou(M2) and Tsubasa
Ikami(M1) made an oral presentation in 56th Aircraft Symposium
November 13, 2018
Takuya Adachi(D1) made an oral presentation in
Thermophysical Properties 30 The 39th Japan Symposium 2018
November 7, 2018
Takuya Adachi(D1), Masayuki Nomura(D1), Kensuke Kanou(M2), Nao Inoue(M2),
Hiroto Tanaka(M1), Issei Mamiya(M1), Tsubasa Ikami(M1) and Marie Tanno(M1)
made poster presentations in 15th International Conference on Flow Dynamics
(15th ICFD). Also, Asst. Prof. Fujita made oral presentations.
October 24, 2018
Takuya Adachi (D1), Masayuki Nomura(D1) , Nao Inoue(M2)
and Marie Tanno(M1) made oral
presentations in 62st Space Sciences and Technology Conference (Japanese).
October 6, 2018
Asst. Prof. Fujita made oral presentation in EuroSciCon conference on Nanotechnology & Smart Materials.
September 9, 2018
Asst. Prof. Fujita made an oral presentation in 31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences.
August 8, 2018
Nao Inoue (M2) and Takumi Hirata (M1) made oral and poster presentations
in Multiphase Flow Symposium 2018 (Japanese).
July 5, 2018
Ptof. Nagai and Asst. Prof. Fujita made oral presentations in 50th Flow
Dynamics Conference (Japanese).
June 29, 2018
Masayuki Nomura (D1) was adopted as the Division for Interdisciplinary
Advanced Research and Education (DIARE) doctoral course students.
Tohoku Univ. DIARE Website
June 13, 2018
Takuya Adachi (D1) made an oral presentation in Joint 19th International
Heat Pipe Conference and 13th International Heat Pipe Symposium. Also,
Nao Inoue (M2) made a poster presentation.
May 29, 2018
Prof. Nagai made an oral presentation in 55th Japan Heat Transfer Symposium
(Japanese).
April 6, 2018
4 exchange students joined our laboratory using COLABS.
COLABS website
April 2, 2018
New members joined our laboratory.
March 27, 2018
Masayuki Nomura(M2) recieved the JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Miura Award, and Tatsuya Tonai(B4) recieved an Award of Dean of the President,
Tohoku University
March 27, 2018
Tohoku University Graduation Ceremony 2018 was held.
March 6, 2018
Yuya Shimizu recieved Best Presentation Award for Student in The Japan
Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences Northern Branch Conference
2018 (Japanese).
February 5, 2018
Final thesis defence of Master was held.
January 25, 2018
Asst. Prof. Fujita received an Award of 2017 Japan Society for Aeronautical
and Space Sciences.
January 8-12, 2018
Kakeru Kurane(M2) and Masayuki Nomura(M2) made oral presentations in 2018
AIAA SciTech.
November 20, 2017
Masayuki Nomura(M2) made an oral presentation in 55th Aircraft Symposium.
November 4, 2017
We held imoni party.
November 2, 2017
Takuya Adachi(M2), Kakeru Kurane(M2), Kenta Uechi(M2), Masayuki Nomura(M2),
Nao Inoue(M1) and Tatsuya Tonai(M1) made poster presentations in 14th International
Conference on Flow Dynamics (14th ICFD). Also, Asst. Prof. Fujita and Kensuke
Kanou(M1) made oral presentations.
October 29, 2017
Takuya Adachi(M2), Kakeru Kurane(M2), Kenta Uechi(M2) and Kensuke Kanou(M1)
made oral presentations in The 9th JSME-KSME Thermal and Fluids Engineering
Conference (TFEC9).
October 26, 2017
Prof. Nagai, Asst. Prof. Fujita, Takuya Adachi (M2), Masayuki Nomura(M2)
and Nao Inoue(M1) made oral presentations in 61st Space Sciences and Technology
Conference (Japanese).
October 17, 2017
Masayuki Nomura (M2) made an oral presentation in 2017 Asia-Pacific International
Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT 2017).
October 2, 2017
Asst. prof. Koji Fujita arrived at Nagai Lab.
August 21, 2017
Tatsuya Tonai (B4) made a presentation in Graduation Research Presentation
(for graduates in September).
August 18, 2017
Nao Inoue (M1) made oral and poster presentations in 2017 Multiphase Flow
Symposium (Japanese).
July 18, 2017
Prof. Nagai and Takuya Adachi (M2) made oral presentations in 47th International
Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES 2017).
July 18, 2017
Tatsuya Tonai (B4) made an oral presentation in 45th Visualization Symposium.
July 1, 2017
Researcher Takurou Daimaru retired and got a job at NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL).
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Website
June 30, 2017
Masayuki Nomura (M2) was adopted as the Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced Research and Education (DIARE) master's course students.
Tohoku Univ. DIARE Website
June 12, 2017
Launch ceremony of Aircraft Computational Science Center (Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku Univ.) was held.
Aircraft Computational Science Center Website
June 9, 2017
Prof. Nagai, Takuya Adachi (M2) , and Nao Inoue (M1) made oral presentations
in 31st International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS).
May 29, 2017
We recruit Assistant Professor. If you would like to request Prof. Nagai
as your mentor, please contact.
(Closing Date for Application: Aug. 4, 2017)
Recruitment for Assistant Professor: FRIS, Tohoku University
May 15, 2017
Secretary Yuka Sakata joined our laboratory.
April 22, 2017
We joined the mission report with Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and
introduced Mars Airplane.
Tohoku Univ. Release
April 20, 2017
Our joint paper with Nagoya University and JAXA recieved a JSME medal for
outstanding paper 2016.
Title："Study on internal flow characteristics of multiple evaporators loop heat pipe (Visualization in evaporators and condenser under microgravity)"
Authors: Yuta Matsuda (Nagoya Univ.)，Hosei Nagano (Nagoya Univ.), Shun
Okazaki (JAXA), Hiroyuki Ogawa (JAXA), Hiroki Nagai (Tohoku Univ.)
JSME Release
April 6, 2017
New members joined our laboratory.
April 1, 2017
Takuya Adachi (M2) was adopted by Inter-Graduate School Doctoral Degree
Program.
Inter-Graduate School Doctoral Degree Program
March 24, 2017
Takuro Daimaru (D3) received an Award of Dean of Graduate School of Engineering,
Tohoku University
March 24, 2017
Tohoku University Graduation Ceremony 2017 was held.
March 14, 2017
Prof. Nagai made an invited talk about Mars Airplane in Tsukuba University.
Feburary 4, 2017
Final thesis defence of Ph.D. and Master was held.
Feburary 2, 2017
Research topics for newcomer in 2017 are as below. If you have interest,
please contact to Prof. Nagai.
・Study about Airplanes for planetary explaration (Mars Airplane / Mars
helicoptor)
・Study about innovative thermal control device and system for planetary
explaration
・Study about visualization of flow transition in boundary layer in hyper sonic flow
December 2, 2016
Intermidiate thesis defence of Ph.D. and Master was held.
November 25, 2016
Facebook page of Spacecraft Thermal Fluid Systems Laboratory was launched.
November 18, 2016
New website of Spacecraft Thermal Fluid Systems Laboratory was launched.
June 14, 2016
Takuro Daimaru (D3) received Best Student Paper Award in Joint 18th International
Heat Pipe Conference and 12th International Heat Pipe Symposium.
June 14, 2016
High altitude flight test for Mars Airplane by using scientific balloon
(MABE-1) was conducted in Taikicho in Hokkaido.
JAXA Release
April 1, 2016
Prof. Nagai arrived at Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University
April 1, 2016
Spacecraft Thermal and Fluid Systems Laboratory is established in Institute
of Fluid Science, Tohoku University
