Yoichi Mito

Personal Information
Title Associate Professor
Department/Center Division of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Telephone Number +81-157-26-9208
Fax Number 0157-23-9375
E-mail Address ymito@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp
Web Sites http://www.mech.kitami-it.ac.jp/
Degree, Academic Background, Work Experience

Degree

Ph.D. Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flow in a Flexible Channel 1997

Academic Background

1990.3 Bs. Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University
1992.3 Ms. Eng., Aerospace Engineering, Nagoya University
1997.9 Dr. Eng., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo

Work Experience

1997.10 National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan, JST Research Associate
1999.6 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate
2005.5 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Research Associate
2005.10 Kitami Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor
Classes Taught, Specializations
Specializations
Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat and Fluid Flow, Turbulence, Multiphase Flow
Research Topics
Eddy structure of wall turbulence, Turbulent heat transfer over a wavy surface, Particle dispersion in turbulent fluid flow, Transport mechanisms of concentration of particles, Development of codes for direct numerical simulations of turbulent transport phenomena
Keywords in Research
Turbulence; Multiphase Flow; Heat and Fluid Flow; Direct Numerical Simulation; Stochastic Simulation
Affiliation
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Physical Society, The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, Heat Transfer Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow
Publication (Academic Papers)

Scientific Papers

Title / Publisher   Publish Date
DNS Study of Turbulence Modification with Streamwise-uniform Sinusoidal Wall-oscillation
Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, 19, 5, 470-481
1998-05
Use of a modified Langevin equation to describe turbulent dispersion of fluid particles in a channel flow
Flow Turbulence Combustion, 68, 1, 1-26
2002-03
A stochastic model for solid particle dispersion in a nonhomogeneous turbulent field
Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 29, 3, 375-394
2003-03
Lagrangian stochastic simulation of turbulent dispersion of heat markers in a channel flow
Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 46, 6, 1063-1073
2003-03
A stochastic description of wall sources in a turbulent field. Part 1: Verification
Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 29, 9, 1373-1394
2003-09
A stochastic description of wall sources in a turbulent field: part 2. Calculation for a simplified model of horizontal annular flows
Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 30, 7-8, 803-825
2004-07
Concentration profiles in a turbulent suspension when gravity is not affecting deposition
Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 30, 11, 1311-1336
2004-11
A stochastic description of wall sources in a turbulent field. Part 3: Effect of gravitational settling on the concentration profiles
Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 31, 2, 155-178
2005-02
Effect of feedback and inter-particle collisions in an idealized gas-liquid annular flow
Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 32, 6, 692-716
2006-06
Use of a stochastic method to describe dispersion and deposition in an idealized annular flow
S. Balachandar, A. Prosperetti (Eds.) IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches to Multiphase Flow, Springer, The Netherlands, 31-38
2006-07
Trajectory mechanism for particle deposition in annular flows
Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 33, 1, 101-107
2007-01
Flow visualization of superbursts and of the log-layer in a DNS at Retau=950
Flow Turbulence Combustion, 79, 2, 175-189
2007-09
A unifying explanation for the damping of turbulence by additives or external forces
Flow Turbulence Combustion, 83, 2, 293-303
2009-09
Effect of Particle–Wall Interaction in Disperse Flows
Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 45, 9, 793-799
2012-09

International Conference Papers / Proceedings

Title Publish Date
The effect of inertia and distribution of particles in turbulent fluid flow
The 11th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, International Conference on Multiphase Flow, 神戸市
2023-04

Lecture Presentations

Title Publish Date
Characteristics of fluid motions seen by particles dispersing in decaying turbulent channel flow
Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics 2023, 東京都小金井市
2023-09
Awards
1997 Y. Mito, K. Furuta, N. Kasagi, The 3rd Computer Visualization, Excellent Award, Nikkei Science 12, A12-A13