Newsletter  2018.1  Index

Theme : "Mechanical Engineering Congress, 2017 Japan (MECJ-17)" Preface M. MOTOZAWA, S. KUROSAWA Research Progress of Functional Fluids Engineering Hideya NISHIYAMA (Tohoku University) Heat transfer enhancement and drag reducing methods inspired by the skin surfaces of dolphins Yoshimichi HAGIWARA (Kyoto Institute of Technology) On the injection depth of the laser-induced microjet into the soft material Nanami ENDO, Sennosuke KAWAMOTO, Yoshiyuki TAGAWA (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) Cavitation onset induced by sudden acceleration Akihito KIYAMA (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), Zhao Pan (Utah State University), Yoshiyuki TAGAWA (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), Jesse Daily (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Scott Thomson (Brigham Young University), Randy Hurd, Tadd Truscott (Utah State University) Investigation of the sustaining mechanism of turbulence of Newtonian fluids by using viscoelastic fluids Yasufumi HORIMOTO, Susumu GOTO (Osaka University)

 

Preface

The Mechanical Engineering Congress, 2017 Japan (MECJ-17) was held from 3rd to 6th, September, 2017 in Saitama University. There were 2 keynote lectures, 3 research workshops and several organized and general sessions related to the fluid engineering division. In addition to presentations, evaluation of the best presentation award of the fluid engineering division has been also conducted in this conference, and 3 graduate students won the prize.

The issue of this Newsletter is “The Mechanical Engineering Congress, 2017 Japan (MECJ-17)”, and totally 5 articles related to this conference are reported. The articles are contributed by the speakers of keynote lecture, and 3 winners of the best presentation award of the fluid engineering division. The articles from professors provide deep insight and milestone from their longtime experience of research. In contrast, the articles from the winners of the best presentation award imply their daily active research. We hope that these articles are informative for engineers and researchers, and help to make research communication beyond generations and share the activities of the fluids engineering division in the future.

Finally, we would like to thank all the authors for their contributions.

Masaaki Motozawa and Sadao Kurosawa