Earth Simulator Proposed Research Projects


Earth Simulator Proposed Research Projects

List of Authorized Project in FY2015


<Ocean & Atmosphere>
Project Name
Name of Project Representative
Professional Affiliation of Project Representative
Development of a Numerical Model of Urban Heat Island Yasunobu Ashie National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management
The Impact of Submesoscale Eddies on the Circulation of Upper Ocean Kazunori Akitomo Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Oceanic Interactions between Fine Scale and Large Circulation Yukio Masumoto Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Predictability Variation in Numerical Weather Prediction Takeshi Enomoto Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Numerical Climate Experiments for Past and Future Environmental Change Ayako Abe Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
Impacts of Extratropical Coupled Ocean-atmosphere Variability on Seasonal Predictability Hisashi Nakamura Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

<Solid Earth & Space>
Project Name
Name of Project Representative
Professional Affiliation of Project Representative
Simulation Database for Real-time Prediction of Tsunami Inundation Toshitaka Baba Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima
Numerical Simulations of Seismic- and Tsunami-wave Propagation in 3D Heterogeneous Earth Takashi Furumura Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
High-resolution Material Transportation Simulation for the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Tsunami Ryoichi Yamanaka Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima
High Resolution General Circulation Simulation of Mars and Venus Atmosphere Using AFES Yoshiyuki Hayashi Graduate School of Science, Kobe University
Numerical Simulations of the Dynamics of Volcanic Phenomena Takehiro Koyaguchi Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
Generation Mechanism of the Banded Structures Observed in the Jovian-type Planetary Atmospheres Shin-ichi Takehiro Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
Simulation Study of Solar-Terrestrial Environmental System Kanya Kusano Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University

<Environment>
Project Name
Name of Project Representative
Professional Affiliation of Project Representative
Study of the Mechanism of Innovative Robust Nano Carbon Membrane for Water Treatment System Using a Large Scale Simulation Morinobu Endo Shinshu University

<Computing Science>
Project Name
Name of Project Representative
Professional Affiliation of Project Representative
High-performance Computational Analysis on Spectral Theory in High-Re Turbulent Flows and Its Application for Turbulence Modeling Yoshinobu Yamamoto Yamanashi University
Practical Analysis of the Vehicle Aerodynamics Performance Enhancement Which Focused on Unsteady Aerodynamics Makoto Tsubokura Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University
Large-scale Direct Numerical Simulations of Fundamental Turbulent Flows and Application to Modeling of Engineering Turbulent Flows Takashi Ishihara Center for Computational Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Development of DFT-based Simulation Method for the Low Carbon Society Takahisa Ohno Computational Materials Science Unit, National Institute for Materials Science


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