Yuki MATSUKAWA@TUS

Study of super- and subcritical turbulent transition phenomena and heat transfer in wall bounded shear flows, especially in combined shear flows with multiple orthogonal mainstreams.

Investigation of localized turbulence patterns and instabilities in Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille flow.
Investigation of turbulent transition process and heat transfer of natural convection in vertical channel flow.
Investigation of turbulent transition process and heat transfer of mixed convection in vertical channel flow.

Education

2023–Present Doctoral course, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science

2021–2023 Master's course, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science

2016–2020 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science

Research History

2023 Apr.–Present Research Fellowship (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Awards and Fellowships

2023 Sep. Young Researcher's Outstanding Presentation Award, The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics Annual Meeting 2023

2023 Apr. Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

2023 Mar. Miura Award (Distinguished Master Student), The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

2021 Sep. Best Paper Award and selected for special issue of Physics of Fluids, The 8th Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

2021 Jun. Outstanding Presentation Award, The 1st Eight-inter-institutional Seminar on Turbulent Flow Control 2021

Committee activities

2023 Jun.–2024 Mar. Tokyo University of Science Noda Campus Doctoral Course Student Association

2022 Aug. Committee of Summer School for Young Researchers in Fluid Mechanics 2022

Journal Papers

2022

[1] Yuki Matsukawa and Takahiro Tsukahara, "Subcritical transition of Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille flow at high radius ratio", Physics of Fluids, 34, 7 (2022), 074109. [Online Journal (Open Access)]

Proceedings (with Peer Review)

2023

[1] Yuki Matsukawa and Takahiro Tsukahara, “Parameter Dependence of Switching between Supercritical and Subcritical Turbulent Transitions in Inner-Cylinder Rotating Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille flow”, 10th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer (THMT2023), Rome (Italy), 11–15th Sep. (2023), 5.1, 7 pages. [Web page] New!!

Proceedings (without Peer Review)

2023

[7] Yuki Matsukawa and Takahiro Tsukahara, “Different Flow State Transition Processes of Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille Flow Based on Taylor Vortex”, 22nd International Couette–Taylor Workshop (ICTW2023), Barcelona (Spain), 28–30th June (2023), 1 page. [Web page]

[6] Yuki Matsukawa and Takahiro Tsukahara, "Direct numerical simulations of Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille flows at high radius ratios: classification of flow state transition processes", The 67th Workshop on Investigation and Control of Transition to Turbulence, Kanagawa (Japan), 29, 30th Mar. (2023).

2022

[5] Yuki Matsukawa and Takahiro Tsukahara, "Different transition processes of Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille flow based on modulated wavy Taylor vortex", 9th Asian Joint Workshop on Thermophysics and Fluid Science (AJWTF2022), Utsunomiya (Japan), 27–30th Nov. (2022), 4028, 5 pages. [Web page]

[4] Yuki Matsukawa and Takahiro Tsukahara, "Laminarization in Subcritical Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille Flow with Increasing Pressure Gradient'', Nineteenth International Conference on Flow Dynamics (ICFD2022), Sendai (Japan), 9–11th Nov. (2022), OS15-10, 4 pages. [Web page]

2021

[3] Takahiro Tsukahara, Chigusa Izumi, Yuki Matsukawa and Kazuki Takeda, "Patterning of Turbulent Natural Convection in Vertical Channel", The 8th Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (ASCHT2021), Qingdao (China, online), 23–26th Sep. (2021), ASCHT2021-041.

[2] Yuki Matsukawa and Takahiro Tsukahara, "Subcritical transition of Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille flow", The 8th Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (ASCHT2021), Qingdao (China, online), 23–26th Sep. (2021), ASCHT2021-241, 6 pages, Best Paper Award, selected for special issue of Physics of Fluids.

[1] Yuki Matsukawa and Takahiro Tsukahara, "Occurrence and disappearance of localized turbulence in Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille flow", 21st International Couette–Taylor Workshop (ICTW2021), Netherlands (online), 5–9th July (2021), Talk 17, 1 page. [Web page]