Education

Doctor of Engineering, Advanced Energy Engineering Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (2001/4 – 2004/3)

Professional Career

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (2004/4 – 2009/4)

Specially-appointed Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (2009/5 – 2012/3)

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (2012/4 - present)

Guest Professor, Mechanical and Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (2015/5-2015/9)

Research Interests

Numerical modeling and physical elucidation of complex multiphase and granular flows

Awards (total count: 8)

• Young Researchers’ Award, Japanese Society of Multiphase Flow (2014)

• Frontier Award, Fluid & Particle Processing Division, The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (2015)

• Advanced Powder Technology (APT) Outstanding International Contribution Award (as Editor) (2019)

Journal papers (total count: 38)

• T. Tsuji, et al., “Spontaneous structures in three-dimensional bubbling gas-fluidized bed by parallel DEM-CFD coupling simulation”, Powder Technol., 1184, 132-140 (2008)

• T. Tsuji et al., “3-D DEM simulation of cohesive soil-pushing behavior by bulldozer blade”, J. Terramech., 49, 37-47 (2012)

• T. Tsuji et al., “Fictitious particle method: a numerical model for flows including dense solids with large size difference”, AIChE J., 60, 1606-1620 (2014)

• J. Oshitani, T. Sasaki, T. Tsuji et al., “Anomalous sinking of spheres due to local fluidization of apparently fixed powder beds”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 068001 (2016)

• Penn, T. Tsuji et al., “Real-time probing of granular dynamics with magnetic resonance”, Sci. Adv., 3 (9), e1701879 (2017)

• M. Kobayakawa, S. Miyai, T. Tsuji et al., “Local dilation and compaction of granular materials induced by plate drag”, Phys. Rev. E, 98 (5), 052907 (2018)

S. Miyai, M. Kobayakawa, T. Tsuji et al., “Influence of particle size on vertical plate penetration into granular materials (large-scale DEM simulation using real particle size)”, Granul. Matter, 21: 105 (2019)