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Professor
TSUJI, Tomohiro

Areas of specialization
Laboratory/research office Fluids Engineering Laboratory
Fluid mechanics is a discipline to study the characteristics and dynamics of fluids. Typical examples of fluids are water and air, whereas we are concerned mainly with complex fluids which contain larger size of high-order structures compared with their constituent molecules; for examples, polymer melts and solutions, suspensions, surfactant solutions, liquid crystals, biological fluids, et al. Complex fluids react to an external field or change their structures depending on the surrounding environment. We use the characteristics of complex fluids to develop extremely small size of actuators and sensors.
Current research topics
Educational background 1996: Doctor
1993: Master
1991: Bachelor
Professional background 1996-1997: 
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Courses

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

Undergraduate school
  • Graduation Thesis
  • Technical Skills
  • Basic Experiments in System Engineering
  • Simulation Engineering
Graduate school
  • Seminar 1
  • Seminar 3
  • Individual Work for Graduate
  • Advanced Seminar 1
  • Advanced Seminar 2
  • Advanced Seminar 3
  • Engineering Modeling and Simulation

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Research activities

Research papers
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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. 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
  11. 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
  12. Authors: Tomohiro Tsuji, Alejandro D. Rey
    Title: Effect of Long Range Order on Sheared Liquid Crystalline Materials:Flow Regimes, Transitions, and Rheological Phase Diagrams
    Journal: Physical Review, Vol. E, No. 62, pp. 8041-8051
    Year: 2000
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Authors: Tomohiro Tsuji, Alejandro D. Rey
    Title: Effect of long range order on sheared liquid crystalline materials. Part I: compatibility between tumbling behavior and fixed anchoring
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 73, pp. 127-152
    Year: 1997
  16. Authors: Alejandro D. Rey, Tomohiro Tsuji
    Title: Recent Advances in Liquid Crystal Rheology
    Journal: Macromolecular Theory and Simulation, Vol. 7, pp. 623-639
    Year: 1988
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese government
  1. Project title: Development of the liquid crystalline bearing which can generate electricity
    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    Project number: 24560205
    Project period: 2012/04-2015/03
    Total budget amount: 5,330,000 yen
    Keywords: 
  2. Project title: Development of the liquid crystalline bearing which can generate electricity
    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    Project number: 24560205
    Project period: 2012/04-2015/03
    Total budget amount: 5,330,000 yen
    Keywords: 

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