Research interests
- Computational aspects for various scientific and engineering problems
- Boundary element methods
- Finite element methods
- Inverse and optimisation problems related to acoustic problems
- Synthesis of photonic crystals and phononic structures using computational methods
- Thermo-piezoelecric coupling analyses for MEMS devices
- Designs of damping devices
Education
- B.Eng.-1983, M.Eng.-1985, Dr.Eng.-1988, Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo.
Teaching
- Computer Software 1
- Introductory course to programming language Fortran 90/95
- Mechanical Systems Design
- Introduction to Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Engineering
- Two speakers are invited from industries during the course.
- Advanced Computer-Aided Design
- Two speakers are invited from industries during the course.
- Latest Advanced Technology & Tasks in Automobile Engineering
- "Current status of CAE activity in the vehicle development" is given jointly with a lecturer from industry.
Software
- BEMAD
- a boundary element method program for 2D and 3D potential problems, elastostatics, acoustic problems, steady-state elastodyanamics, transient elastodynamic problems.
- Multi-domain analysis
- Constant and quadratic elements
- Fast-Multipole Method is partially implemented to enhance the computation speed and to suppress the memory requirement for large scale problems
- Futti's Viewer
- A post-processing software for BEM and FEM resutls
- Java-base code
- FEMITO
- A three-dimensional FEM code for piezo-electric harmonic vibrations
- FEMURATA
- FEM code for three-dimensional viscous flows
Publications
- M. Tanaka, K. Kurokawa, T. Matsumoto, A time-stepping DRBEM for transient heat conduction in anisotropic solids, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 32, 1046-1053, (2008).
- M. Takagi, S. Kanna, T. Matsumoto, Analysis of frequency locations of the in-harmonics in quartz surface acoustic wave resonators using Helmholtz equations, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 46, 1193-1199, (2007).
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