Our group studies thermo-fluid phenomena and their application to thermo-fluid systems. Research topics include fundamental mechanism of cavitation phenomena, heat transfer process in various cooling technique and its application to blade cooling for gas turbines, chaotic behavior in natural convection fields, numerical prediction of thermo-fluid phenomena, and inverse approach to heat transfer problems and its application to optimal design and control. The main research topics are as follows.

• Direct numerical simulations and experiments on turbulent heat, mass and momentum transfer

• Direct numerical simulations and experiments on transition to turbulence

• Turbulence dynamics and control on the basis of unstable periodic orbits

• Analyses on vortex dynamics and coherent structures of (transition to) turbulence

• Chaotic and unstable phenomena on thermal convection fields