Department of Mechanical Engineering
Address:
2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
Building 2, 1st floor, Thermo-fluid dynamics Lab. (Tsukahara Lab.)
Telephone:
+81-4-7124-1501 (ext. 3964)
E-mail:
7519704 [at] ed.tus.ac.jp
B.S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science , 2017
M.S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, 2019
Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, 2023
2019 - 2022: Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS Research Fellow, DC1)
2023 (- 2025): Assistant professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Viscoelasticity-induced instability in shear flow (drag reduction, elasto-inertia turbulence, elastic turbulence)
Pattern formation and sustaining of turbulent-laminar transitional structure (turbulent puff/stripe, bifurcation theory, chaos)
Transition to turbulence in 3-dimensional boundary layer (free-stream turbulence, cross-flow instability, receptivity)
T. Nimura, T. Tsukahara, "Viscoelasticity-induced instability in plane Couette flow at very low Reynolds number," Fluids, Vol. 7, Issue 7 (2022), 241.
T. Nimura, T. Kawata, and T. Tsukahara, "Viscoelastic effect on steady wavy roll cells in wall-bounded shear flow," Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 50, No. 5 (2018), 051414.
T. Nimura, T. Kawata, and T. Tsukahara, "Viscoelasticity-induced pulsatile motion of 2D roll cell in laminar wall-bounded shear flow," International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 74 (2018), 65-75.
R. Sakakibara, T. Nimura, T. Tsukahara, and T. Ishida, "Critical roughness heights of turbulent transition on a swept laminar-flow wing," Proceedings of AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, Jan. 11-15 & 19-21 (2021), AIAA 2021-1854.
T. Nimura, T. Ishida, T. Kawata, and T. Tsukahara, "Modulated roll cells in rotating plane Couette flow of viscoelastic fluid," Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Chicago, USA, July 6-9 (2017), 2B-3.
Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (JSFM), Member