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Professor CHONO Shigeomi


Year of birth 1956 Gender Male
Affiliation School of Systems Engineering
Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering Course, Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Enginering
Research Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Research Institute
Job titles Dean, School of Systems Engineering
Head, Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering Course
Personal web site

Areas of specialization
Laboratory/research office Fluid Engineering Laboratory
Fluid mechanics is the discipline to study the characteristics and behavior of fluids. Typical fluids are water and air, but in our lab we are concerned mainly with complex fluids made up of higher order structures than their constituent molecules, e.g., polymer melts and solutions, suspensions, surfactant solutions, liquid crystals and biological fluids. Complex fluids respond to external fields and their structures can change in response to changes in the surrounding environment. We are currently using the characteristics of complex fluids in the development of extremely small actuators and sensors.
Current reseach topics
Educational background 1980: Master
1978: Bachelor
Professional background 1997-: 
1996-1996: 
1990-1997: 
1989-1990: 
1988-1989: 
1982-1988: 
Licenses
Academic societies

Courses  * Courses provided in English are shown with (E) mark

Undergraduate school ▼

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics
Graduation Thesis

Graduate school ▼

Advanced Fluid Dynamics
Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Individual Work for Graduate

Research activities

Research papers ▼

  1. Authors: ZHOU Yuan, TSUJI Tomohiro, CHONO Shigeomi
    Title: Fundamental study on the application of liquid crystals to actuator devices
    Journal: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 109, p. 011902, AIP
    Year: 2016/07/04
  2. Authors: TSUJI, Tomohiro, CHONO, Shigeomi, Takanori Matsumi
    Title: Velocity profiles of electric-field-induced backflows in liquid crystals confined between parallel plates
    Journal: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 117, No. 5, pp. 054501-1-054501-8
    Year: 2015/02/05
  3. Authors: A. Sunarso, TSUJI, Tomohiro, CHONO, Shigeomi
    Title: Three-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations of reorientation process and backflow generation in nematic liquid crystals under application of electric fields
    Journal:  Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 110, p. 044911
    Year: 2011/08/15
  4. Authors: A. Sunarso, T. Tsuji, S. Chono
    Title: GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics simulation for study of liquid crystalline flows
    Journal: Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 229, pp. 5486-5497
    Year: 2010/08/01
  5. Authors: S. Chono, T. Tsuji
    Title: Numerical analysis of characteristics of microactuators driven by liquid crystals
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 64, No. 22, pp. 4625-4631
    Year: 2009/11/16
  6. Authors: S. Fu, T. Tsuji, S. Chono
    Title: Effect of magnetic fields on out-of-plane orientations of nematic liquid crystalline polymers under simple shear flow
    Journal: Molecular Physics, Vol. 107, No. 3, pp. 245-252
    Year: 2009/04/16
  7. Authors: A. Sunarso, T. Tsuji , S. Chono
    Title: Molecular dynamics simulation of backflow generation in nematic liquid crystals
    Journal: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, No. 24, p. 244106
    Year: 2008/12/15
  8. Authors: S. Fu, T. Tsuji, S. Chono
    Title: Effect of magnetic field on molecular orientation of nematic liquid crystalline polymers under simple shear flow
    Journal: Journal of Rheology, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 451-468
    Year: 2008/03
  9. Authors: S. Chono, T. Tsuji
    Title: Proposal of mechanics of liquid crystals and development of liquid crystalline microactuators
    Journal: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, No. 5, p. 51905
    Year: 2008/02/04
  10. Authors: CHONO, Shigeomi, TSUJI, Tomohiro, SUN, Jianye
    Title: Numerical simulation of molding Hele-Shaw flow of polymeric liquid crystals
    Journal: Journal of Fluid Science and Technology, Vol. 2, pp. 368-379
    Year: 2007/10/29
  11. Authors: NAGAE, Takanori, TSUJI, Tomohiro, CHONO, Shigeomi
    Title: Numerical simulation of flow-induced flexoelectric effect in liquid crystals
    Journal: Journal of Fluid Science and Technology, Vol. 2, pp. 258-269
    Year: 2007/05/29
  12. Authors: T. Tsukiji, E. Koyabu, TSUJI, Tomohiro, CHONO, Shigeomi
    Title: Influence of electric fields on the flow of a liquid crystal mixture in circular pipe electrodes
    Journal:  JSME International Journal Series B, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 517-523
    Year: 2005
  13. Authors: IEMOTO, Yoshiyuki, CHONO, Shigeomi, QIN, H., LOU, W.
    Title: Size effect of interlacer (Part 2: Pressure distribution of air flow in interlacers)
    Journal: Journal of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan, , Vol. 46, pp. 11-19
    Year: 2000
  14. Authors: LOU, W., IEMOTO, Yoshiyuki, CHONO, Shigeomi
    Title: Size effect of interlacer (Part 3: Formulation of number of tangles)
    Journal: Journal of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan, Vol. 46, pp. 53-61
    Year: 2000
  15. Authors: CHONO, Shigeomi, IEMOTO, Yoshiyuki, HAN, Wookan
    Title: Model experiment on interlaced yarn (Part 3: Development of a new interlacing process without conventional interlacers)
    Journal: Journal of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan, Vol. 45, pp. 13-18
    Year: 1999
  16. Authors: CHONO, Shigeomi, TSUJI, Tomohiro, Morton M. DENN
    Title: Spatial development of director orientation of tumbling nematic liquid crystals in pressure-driven channel flow
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 79, pp. 515-527
    Year: 1998/11
  17. Authors: IEMOTO, Yoshiyuki, CHONO, Shigeomi, TANAKA, Takayuki
    Title: Study on interlaced yarn (Part 4: Yarn posture in interlacer, and relation between yarn positions and number of tangles)
    Journal: Journal of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan, Vol. 44, pp. 57-63
    Year: 1998
  18. Authors: CHONO, Shigeomi, TSUJI, Tomohiro
    Title: Numerical simulation of nematic liquid crystalline flows around a circular cylinder
    Journal: Molecular Crystals & Liquid Crystals, Vol. 309, pp. 217-236
    Year: 1998
  19. Authors: IEMOTO, Yoshiyuki, CHONO, Shigeomi
    Title: Study on interlaced yarn (Part 3: Air flow in a yarn duct)
    Journal: Journal of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan, Vol. 43, pp. 38-46
    Year: 1997

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Patents ▼

  1. Liquid crystal motor making use of flow of liquid crystal, Application 12/887,750, Publication US20110058114(A1), Registration US8,363,172 B2
  2. Liquid crystal flow forming mechanism, method of forming same, and object moving mechanism using liquid crystal flow, Application 10/814,110, Publication US2005018096(A1), Registration US7,826,029 B2
  3. Object rotating mechanism using liquid crystal flow, Application 10/550,566, Publication US2006236868(A1), Registration US7,324,182 B2

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese government ▼

  1. Project title: Shear flow behavior of tumbling liquid crystals and development of micro mechanical sensors
    Category: Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research
    Project number: 
    Project period: 2011/04-2014/03
    Total budget amount: 3,900,000 yen
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