Doshisha University (Private)

Spray engineering
Combustion engineering
Internal combustion engines
Thermofluid engineering
Optical measurement
Cavitation engineering
Sustainable Urban Design with Optimum Energy Application
Prof. Mamoru SENDA, Kyoji INAOKA
Heat Transfer Laboratory
http://istc.doshisha.ac.jp/course/mechanical/labo_30.html
Research Topics
Research on elucidating various thermal flow characteristics and their engineering applications
Research on dynamic control of thermal flow fields
Research on enhancing the efficiency of systems using waste heat and of thermofluid devices
Research Contents
Topic I
develop aims to clarify various thermal-hydraulic phenomena in laminar and turbulent flows and discover their engineering
applications. In practice, this focuses on thermal flow fields including significant engineering elements such as wall turbulence, jet
flow, swirl flow, pulsatile flow, flow around wings, and re-attaching flow after separation accompanied by heat transfer, in order to
investigate the structure of the flow field and temperature field, identify phenomena with potential engineering applications, and
develop thermofluid equipment. For example, an object placed in a turbulent flow results in unsteady vortices shedding downstream.
These vortices carry both momentum and heat. This results in a flow field with unsteady large-scale vortex motions added to the
turbulent components. The thermal flow field resulting from this mutual relationship is complex. For detailed investigation of such
complex thermal flow fields, laser-based velocity measurements (LDV, PIV) and temperature measurement (LIF) are performed to
create a thermal-flow-field database and enhance understanding of these phenomena.
Topic 2