Our alumni, Mr. Shinji Maeda won the McGee Inspiration Aviation Award 2025 for his earthrounder mission and for encouraging young people to challenge themselves, overcome obstacled, and seize the skier through AeroZypangu Project.
Our alumni, Mr. Shoya TAKESHI (Sumitomo Heavy Industries Material Handling Systems Co.,Ltd.) won “Nippon (Japan) brand aword” by The NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN, Ltd. (The Daily Industorial News)
Company news site (Mr. Takeshi is holding the plaque in the second picture.)
Prof. Tanabe gave a lecture in the ISAS/JAXA seminar on the outline and scientific achievement of Phoenix-2 sounding rocket experiment project.
Mr. Iemura’s paper was awarded the 2024 distinguished paper of the Combustion Society of Japan. Congraturations !
“Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Cool Flame Oscillation Phenomenon Occurred Around a Fuel Droplet Array by using Variational Auto-encoder”, Iemura K,, Saito M., Suganuma Y., Kikuchi M., Inatomi Y., Nomura H., Tanabe M., Proceedings of the Combustion Institute,
DOI：10.1016/j.proci.2022.09.047
This paper reports the results of the computational part of the Japan-German colaborative research project on droplet array cool flame, “Phoenix-2”. Cool flame oscillation is analyzed by newly introduced VAE-POD method that combines mode decomposition with non-linear attractor reconstruction. Phasewise and modewise analysis clarified the mechanism of complex spatio-temporal oscillation of multi-phase multi-species reacting fluid.
Graduate students, K. Iemura, R. Saito, and Y. Takahata made presentation at COSPAR meeting held at 13-21, July, 2024.
K. Iemura, et. al., Modeling of mode switching in cool flame occurrences around a fuel droplet pair.
R. Saito, et. al., Influence of ambient temperature and inter-droplet spacing on cool flame behavior of fuel droplet pair under microgravity conditions.
Y. Takahata, et. al., Influence of Ambient Temperature and Inter-Droplet Spacing on Cool Flame Spread Limit Around Fuel Droplet Array.
Prof. Tanabe gave a lecture in Western Michigan University, as part of Custer Speaker Series, invited by Prof. Dr. Shiva Om Bade Shrestha.
TEXUS-60 sounding rocket was launced on 24th March 2024. The DCU2 module functioned and recovery was succeeded. The planned cool flame data was successfully obtained. Congraturations to all the contributers.
(Photo by AirbusDS)
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Youtube Texus 60 Launch 2024 03 24 0948 UTC
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All the test have been completed, and the booster solid rocket motors had been arrived at SSC with the support mission by DLR. TEXUS-60 now is scheduled to be launced on 21st March. ->Due to weather, the date was set to 24th. (updated@2023,3/23)
Prof. Tanabe was recognized as a Fellow of The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
PhD Student, Kazuki Iemura’s article published in “International Journal of Microgravity Science and Application” is reported to be the second most viewed articles. Congraturations!