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2026
3月15日、論文「Solar radiation reshapes the deposition patterns of plasmonic nanosuspension droplets」がLangmuirに受理されました！本研究は、太陽放射☀️がプラズモニックナノ流体滴のパターン形成における効果的な「光スイッチ」として機能し、蒸着パターンを「山型」から「盆地型」の形態へと変化させることを実証しています。さらに、複雑に相互作用する物理現象を定量的に捉え解析する包括的な数理モデルを構築しました。
- 🎉TFIラボでの初めての論文出版となるWeifeng君、おめでとう！🌹長年にわたりご協力いただいているアリストテレス大学テッサロニキ校のGeorge Karapetsas先生、キングス・カレッジ・ロンドンの喜多由拓先生に心より感謝申し上げます！
March 15th, our paper entitled "Solar radiation reshapes the deposition patterns of plasmonic nanosuspension droplets" got accepted in Langmuir ! The work demonstrates that solar radiation☀️ can serve as an effective “optical switch” for the pattern formation of plasmonic nanofluid droplets, shifting the deposition pattern from “hill-shaped” to “basin-shaped” morphology. A comprehensive mathematical model is developed to capture and decompose the complex interacting physics in a quantitative way.
- 🎉Congratulations to Weifeng for his first piece of publication at TFI lab! 🌹Thanks go to our long time collaborators Prof. George Karapetsas at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Prof. Yutaku Kita at King's College London!
2月7日、航空宇宙工学部門のM2学生である杉本想君が、山形で開催された2025年熱工学コンファレンスにおいて、優秀な発表を行い、日本機械学会 熱工学部門 一般表彰 若手優秀講演賞を受賞しました。おめでとうございます！ 🎉
February 7th, So Sugimoto, our M2 student at Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics won the Young Presenter Award - Thermal Engineering Division General Award of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, for his excellent performance at 2025 熱工学コンファレンス (JSME Thermal Engineering Conference) held in Yamagata 山形. Congratulations! 🎉
1月7日、ポーランド科学アカデミー物理学研究所のPanos Theodorakis教授とKing Lun Ng博士が私たちを訪問されました。Panosは3週間、Kingは2ヶ月半滞在されます。👏🏻 PHOTO
- 効率的なMDPD法を用いたメソスケールの濡れダイナミクスシミュレーションに関する共同研究を開始します。Weifengと、これから修士課程に入学するYingxiがこの共同プロジェクトに参加します。新たに始まったマリー・スクウォドフスカ・キュリー・アクションズ（MSCA）のThermEnTransプロジェクトがもたらしてくれた機会に感謝いたします。
January 7th, Profs. Panos Theodorakis and King Lun Ng at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences visit us. Panos will stay with us for three weeks, and King will be staying for two and a half months. 👏🏻 PHOTO
- We are initiating our collaborations on mesoscale simulation of wetting dynamics with the highly-efficient MDPD method. Weifeng and our incoming Master's student Yingxi will participate in the collaboration project. We extend our thanks for the opportunity brought by the newly initiated ThermEnTrans project under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).
2025
December 16th, our paper on pool boiling enhancement with 3D metallic porous lattices got accepted in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer! Link HERE.
- This is a collaborative work with Dr. Shaoyun Zhou and Prof. Makoto Kobashi at Nagoya University, our first piece of research on electronic thermal management with metallic 3D printing techniques. Congratulations!
October 1st, Weifeng and Tingyang formally join us as new members of TFI lab! A big welcome! ღ
Look forward to working together on exciting research topics!
July 16th, Yuting joined us for a six-week summer intern! ღ
- Yuting Wang is an undergraduate student at Tsinghua University. She will work on pool boiling enhancement with additive manufacturing, a collaborative project with Nagoya University.
Zhenying has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, a peer-reviewed Elsevier journal with an Impact Factor of 6.4 (Scopus Top 10%).
- In this role, she will work alongside the distinguished editorial board to cultivate a dynamic and inspiring platform for academic exchange, as well as to promote high-quality research addressing critical thermal challenges in diverse engineering fields!
Zhenying gave an invited talk (25min) at MicroFIP (Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena) 2025.
2025年6月16-18日，University of California, Santa Barbara, Session: Droplets, Bubbles, and Wetting
Title: Generalizing Classical Theories of Wetting to Real Liquids
Conference website: https://microfip.org/
Zhenying gave keynote lecture (40min) at 日本機械学会「動力エネルギーシステム部門」 第29回 動力・エネルギー技術シンポジウム.
2025年6月5日（木），金沢大学，OS9: 熱・流動，濡れ現象で見逃されている力場の統合理論
Conference website:
Zhenying received 2024年度日本機械学会奨励賞（研究）！
業績名： 「多成分複雑流体の蒸発と濡れ挙動の解明と応用に関する研究」
2024年度日本機械学会賞贈賞式, 2025年4月24日（木）明治記念館，東京
2024
Zhenying received 九州大学 令和6年度伊藤早苗賞 若手女性研究者部門 最優秀賞！
With the precious privilege to present my research and share views on diversity with 石橋達朗総長！
下記URLにて授賞式の開催報告および研究内容紹介動画を公開しております。
An invited talk was given at 日本機械学会 熱工学部門 第29回相変化界面研究会 at 山口
2024年10月4日(金), entitled 'Wetting and Evaporation: From Single to Multi-Component Droplets'.
Event link: http://mech.u-fukui.ac.jp/~PCRC_JSME/event.html
An invited talk was given at µFIP 2024, Hong Kong, entitled 'Flow Structure and Spreading Law: From Oil to Flash-Evaporating Droplets'.
Work on the Spreaing Law of Evaporative Droplets is now online at Journal of Fluid Mechanics!
In collaboration with Prashant Valluri @Univ. Edinburgh, George Karapetsas @Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, and Chihiro Inoue @Kyushu Univ.!
Check more details here: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.385
Press release at Kyushu University website, EurekAlert!, ScienceDaily, etc.
Our work on the Flow Structure near Three Phase Contact Line is published with Editor's Pick in Applied Physics Letter! The work provides an explicit answer to existing controversies on the flow state near TPCL!
It is a comprehensive work that combines experimental visualization, numerical simulation, theoretical analysis and mathematical decomposition, together with Prashant Valluri @Univ. Edinburgh, George Karapetsas @Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, and Chihiro Inoue @Kyushu Univ.!
Check more details here:
A talk was given at Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
January 11, 2024, 15:00 (JST)
Host: Prof. Amy Shen, Dr. Ricardo Arturo Lopez de la Cruz
Topic:
Spreading Law of Evaporative Droplets
A very pleasant journey to Okinawa together with Prof. Xuehua Zhang@UAlberta, and impressed by the enjoyable research enviroment of OIST!
2023
A talk was given at 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society (APS DFD)
Topic:
A pleasure to serve as the session chair for 'Session A19: Heat Transfer, Evaporation and Buoyancy Effects I'!
A talk was given at Thermal Transport Café, Online Webinar, US
October 26, 2023, 11 AM (ET)
Host: Prof. Matteo Bucci at MIT; Chaired by Prof. Chiara Falsetti at TU Delft
YouTube Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ff5mb89gc
Topic:
Wetting and Evaporation: From Single to Multi-Component Droplets
A talk was given at 日本機械学会熱工学コンファレンス 2023, Kobe, Japan
Topic:
Visualization and Simulation of Flow Field near Three Phase Contact Line
A pleasure to serve as the session chair for 'OS-13 濡れ性制御と液滴ダイナミクス'!
A talk was given at the 6th International Conference on Droplets - Droplets 2023, Beijing, China
Topic:
Spreading Law of Evaporative Droplets
Honored to receive the Best Presentation Award for Young Scholars!
A talk was given at 第60回日本伝熱シンポジウム, Fukuoka, Japan
Topic:
Droplet Spreading Revisited: A Generalization to Tanner’s Law
A pleasure to serve as the member of the organizing committee, and a session chair for Section B31 '液滴・濡れ現象の制御と理解7'
A poster presentation was given at 11th International Conference on Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, 2023, Edinburgh, UK
Topic:
Droplet Spreading Revisited: A Generalization to Tanner’s Law
A talk was given at the 11th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan, 2023
10:30−10:50 (JST) , April 7, Room 505, S12 OS: Bubbles and Drops (Drops)
Topic:
Lubrication Type Model for Wetting Dynamics of Multicomponent Droplets
An invited lecture was given at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Feb. 27, 2023 15:00-16:30 (CST)
Topic:
Wetting and Evaporation of Complex Thermofluids
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