Profile

【Major Subject】

Partial Differential Equations in Continuum Mechanics;

Mathematical Physics

Main Research Interests:

• Fluid Mechanics ((in-)compressible Navier-Stokes equations, Euler equation, vortex filament equation, foam drainage equation; free & slip boundary phenomena)

• Solid Mechanics ((thermo-, visco-) elastic equations, fracture mechanics, Coulomb friction law)

• Geophysics (Primitive Equation, soil mechanics)

• Stefan Problem (for (in-)compressible Navier-Stokes equations)

• Fingering Problem in Hele-Shaw Cells

• Non-Newtonian fluid flow

• Nonlinear Acoustics

• EMHD, MHD, EHD

• Phase Transition, Critical Phenomena (Penrose-Fife equation, Eguchi model)

• Pattern Formation Mechanochemical Models

• Synchronization (Kuramoto-Sakaguchi equation)

• Plasma Physics (drift wave turbulence, Hasegawa-Wakatani equation)

【Academic Career】

B. Sc. in Applied Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, March 1971

M. Sc. in Applied Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, March 1973

Ph. D. in Applied Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, September 1976

【Degree】

Degree of Science (Tokyo Institute of Technology, 30/09/1976)

Master of Science (Tokyo Institute of Technology, 26/03/1973)

Bachelor of Science (Tokyo Institute of Technology, 26/03/1971)

【Professional Career】

• Professor, Keio University, Department Mathematics (04/1996 - 03/2012)

• Associate Professor, Keio University, Department Mathematics (04/1984 - 03/1996)

• Full-time Lecturer, Keio University, Department Mathematics (04/1980 - 03/1984)

• Assistant Professor, Keio University, Department Mathematics (04/1977 - 03/1980)

• Visiting Professor, Novosibirsk State University (Russia, Novosibirsk) (09/2017 - 11/2017)

• Visiting Research Fellow, Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Russia, St. Petersburg) (08/2013 - 09/2013)

• Visiting Research Fellow, Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Russia, St. Petersburg) (06/2009 - 08/2009)

• Visiting Professor, Texas A&M University (USA) (02/2009 - 03/2009)

• Visiting Research Fellow, Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics (Russia, Novosibirsk) (09/2008 - 10/2008)

• Visiting Research Fellow, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Russia, Novosibirsk), (09/2008 - 10/2008)

• Visiting Research Fellow, Steklov Institute of Mathematics (USSR, Leningrad) (10/1986 - 08/1987)

• Visiting Professor, Politecnico di Milano (Italia) (02/1985 - 06/1985)

• Part-time Lecturer, Keio University, Department of Mathematics (04/2012 - 03/2015)

• Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry (04/2010 - 03/2016)

• Part-time Lecturer, Meiji University, Graduate School of Mathematics (04/2006 - 03/2017)

• Part-time Lecturer, Meiji University, Graduate School of Mathematics (04/2003 - 03/2004)

• Part-time Lecturer, Ehime University, Department of Mathematics (04/2002 - 03/2003)

• Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Information and Science (04/2002 - 03/2003)

• Part-time Lecturer, Niigata University, Department of Mathematics (04/1997 - 03/1998)

• Part-time Lecturer, Shinshu University, Department of Mathematics (04/1990 - 03/1991)

• Part-time Lecturer, Waseda University, Department of Mathematics (04/1988 - 03/1997)