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WELLS John

Department / Course College of Science and Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Science and Engineering
2.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Research Centre for Palaeoclimatology
3.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Research Center for Lake BIWA & Environmental innovation

Academic background
1.		Others
2.	～1992/03	Doctorial Course │ Mechanics │ Institut de Mecanique │ Univ. Grenoble I │ Completed

Research activities
1.		The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2.		Japan Society of Civil Engineers

Subject of research
1.	Micromechanics of Running Sand by Experiment and Numerical Computation
2.	Numerical Simulation of Flow of Bioreactor for Water Purification

Research summary
Mechanics of Quicksand, Eddy Structure in Turbulent Boundary Layers Study on the relation of fluid force acting on particles with particle movements, based on vortex dynamics, lubrication theory and experiments (particle image velocimetry and visualization) to establish quicksand dynamics

Present specialized field
Hydraulics and River Engineering (Keyword：fluid mechanics, hydraulic engineering and hydraulics)

Papers
1.	2020/11	Effects of wall proximity on the airflow in a vertical solar chimney for natural ventilation of dwellings │ J. Building Physics │ 44 (3),pp.225-250 (Co-authored)
2.	2019/11	Formation and Breakup of an Immiscible Compound Jet with Density or Viscosity Stratification │ Applied Sciences │ 9 (22),pp.article 4817 (Co-authored)
3.	2019/05	Production of hollow germanium alloy quasi-spheres through a coaxial nozzle │ Japanese Journal of Applied Physics │ ,pp.58 (Co-authored)
4.	2018/04	Smoothed particle hydrodynamics method with partially defined fluid particles, │ Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences │ 41 (6),pp.2299–2306, (Co-authored)
5.	2018	Efficient local smoothed particle hydrodynamics with precomputed patches,I │ International Journal of Computer Mathematics │ (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/08/24	Monitoring and particle-tracking simulation to clarify littoral-to-pelagic nutrient export in Lake Biwa, Japan, during the spring rice-planting season (SIL)
2.	2019/05/06	Coastal Acoustic Tomography under Stratified Conditions in Lake Biwa, Japan (Ocean Predict ‘19)
3.	2017/02/01	Hindcasts of Gyre Rebirth after Strong Wind Events in Lake Biwa, Japan (17th International Symposium on River and Lake Environments)
4.	2016/08/30	Gyre generation after a typhoon-induced upwelling in a stratified lake. (International Symposium on Stratified Flows)
5.	2014/12/08	Front Tracking Computation of Trijunction Solidification with Volume Change (IUTAM Symposium on Multiphase Flows with Phase Change)
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Acquisition patent
1.		直接静電プリント方法及び装置（特開平10-239958）

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