Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Dr. Eng., Mechanical Engineering, University of
Tokyo, 1976
Ms. Eng., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1973
Bs. Eng., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1971
Member of Science
Council of Japan (2005) and Engineering
Academy of Japan(2002)
Intl. Fellow of Royal Academy
of Engineering (2007) and Member of Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences (2003)
Fellow of ASME (1994),
JSME
(2001) and JSFM
(2005)
Principal Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Center
for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS) (2010)
Japanese Government Representative, OECD Committee on Science and Technology Policy, Vice Chair (Bureau Member)
Professor Kasagi has been a faculty
member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Tokyo since 1976. He was promoted to full professor in 1990.
He spent a year on his sabbatical at the Thermosciences Division
of the ME Department of Stanford University, California, in 1980.
Up to the present, he has been involved in various research projects
in the fields of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, e.g., turbulent
boundary layer structure and transport mechanism, impinging jet
heat transfer, turbulence modeling, large-scale numerical simulation
of turbulence phenomena, development of new measurement techniques
such as a thermal mapping technique with liquid crystals and 3-D
particle tracking velocimetry. He also carried out research projects
on new energy conversion technologies such as turbine blade cooling,
Stirling engines with a two-phase two-component working fluid,
micro gas turbine and its hybrid with fuel cell. His current research
interests are, e.g.,
He served as Leader of the 21st Century Center-of-Excellence Program on Mechanical Systems Innovation (FY2003-07), which is an interdepartmental collaborative activity of research and education for establishing mechanical engineering for enrichment of human life.
He is now working as Program Officer for the World Premier International Research Center Initiative by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and also Program Director for the CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science & Technology) on "Phase Interface Science for Efficient Energy Utilization" by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
Kasagi is an active member of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (TED Chair, 2002-03; President Elect, 2005-06; President 2006-07), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Fellow, 1994), Heat Transfer Society of Japan (President, 2011-), Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (President, 1997-98), Japanese Society of Multiphase Flow, AIAA, APS and so forth. He served as President of JSME (2006-07), Chairman of JSME Committee on Engineering Education (1996-98), President of Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (1997-98), and President of Japan Society of Computational Fluid Dynamics (2000-01). He is and has been actively participating in organizing various international meetings; e.g., International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, ECI Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale, ECI Conference on Transport Phenomena in Micro and Nanodevices, ASME/JSME Joint Thermal Engineering Conference, and International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS).
He is currently President of the Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (2009-2017), Vice President of International Centre of Heat and Mass Transfer(2010-2014) and Vice President of the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences(2010-2014). He worked as Vice-Chairman (1995-97) and Chairman (1998-2001) of Nusselt-Reynolds Prize Board.
Kasagi has committed himself to Editor of JSME International Journal, Editorial Board Member for Experimental Heat Transfer, and Associate Editor of Fluid Dynamics Research. He is now Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Advisory Editor of Journal of Flow Turbulence and Combustion, Managing Editor of Journal of Flow Visualization, and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, and Advisory Board Member of e-Fluids.
He is a recipient of JSME Medal for the Best Papers (1987, 1990, 2008, and 2010), GTSJ Best Paper Award (1988), JSME Thermal Engineering Achievement Award (1993), Heat Transfer Society of Japan Award (2002), JSME Fluids Engineering Award (2004), Fluid Science Award (2004), JSME Thermal Engineering Award for International Activity (2008), the William Begell Medal for Excellence in Thermal Science and Engineering (2010) and so forth. He was invited as Guest Professor by the Technical University of Munich in 2010.
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