People

Self introduction

Dr Mikio Sakai is currently an Associate Professor in the Resilience Engineering Research Center in The University of Tokyo. He earned his Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 2006 and joined the Department of Quantum Engineering and Systems Science as an Assistant Professor in 2007. He then became an Associate Professor at the Department of Systems Innovation in 2008, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management in 2012 and Resilience Research Engineering Center in 2013. He has been a Visiting Reader at Imperial College London since 2016. His interests include general computational granular dynamics (gas-solid flows, solid-liquid flows, gas-liquid-solid flows, granular flows and colloidal suspensions with hydrodynamic interactions) and the parallel computing techniques. At present, he is an Associate Editor of Chemical Engineering Science.

Profile

• Mikio SAKAI, Ph.D.
• - Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo
• - Visiting Reader, Imperial College London
• - Special Technical Advisor, Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc.

■ Research interests
- Numerical modeling of industrial powder processes
- Numerical investigation of complex physics related to solid-fluid interaction
Keywords: Discrete Element Method, Numerical simulation of solid-fulid coupling problems, Mesh-free particle method, Volume-of-fluid, Multi-thread programming

■ Publication list

■ Symposium

Group Members

研究主宰者 Principal Investigator
准教授 Associate Professor	酒井 幹夫 Mikio SAKAI
スタッフ Support staffs
秘書 / 学術支援職員 Secretary / Academic Support Staff	飯島 由江 Yoshie IIJIMA
秘書 / 学術支援職員 Secretary / Academic Support Staff	井口 智恵 Chie IGUCHI
学術支援職員 Academic Support Staff	市瀬 多鶴子 Tazuko ICHINOSE
技術補佐員 Technical Assistant	牧田 みか Mika MAKITA
研究員 Researcher
特任研究員 Project Researcher	孫 暁松 Xiaosong SUN
博士後期課程 PhD students
博士課程3年 社会人	渡邊 孝宏 Takahiro WATANABE
博士課程3年 社会人	田中 裕幸 Hiroyuki TANAKA
博士課程3年	姚　華秦 Huaqin YAO
博士課程2年	鵜殿 寛岳 Hirotake UDONO
博士課程2年 JSPS特別研究員 (DC2)	高畑 和弥 Kazuya TAKABATAKE
博士前期課程 Master students
修士課程2年	田村 耕太郎 Kotaro TAMURA
修士課程2年	森　勇稀 Yuuki MORI
修士課程1年	孫　茂東 Maodong SUN
修士課程1年	川上　隼平 Shunpei KAWAKAMI
学部生 Undergraduate students
学部4年	吉田　昴生 Kosei YOSHIDA
Group photo 2017

Student awardees

■ Dean's Award (Outstanding Research Award)
2016 (M) Mr Kazuya Takabatake
2015 (D) Dr Xiaosong Sun
2012 (D) Dr Yoshinori Yamada

■ JSME Hatakeyama Award (Academic Excellence)
2016 (B) Mr Yuki Mori
2010 (B) Mr Xiaosong Sun

■ Excellent thesis award (Outstanding Research Award)
2017 (B) Mr Shunpei Kawakami

■ AESJ Fellow Award (Outstanding Research Award)
2013 (B) Mr Akira Hosokawa

Ph.D. recipients

2016 Dr Gytis Basinskas
2015 Dr Xiaosong Sun
2013 Dr Yusuke Shigeto

After graduation (since 2009)

■ Master students
■ PhD students