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Hideaki Kobayashi

Hideaki Kobayashi

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
54
Citations
13198
World Ranking
934
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for exceptional advances in fundamental understanding of high speed combustion, high pressure turbulent premixed combustion and ammonia combustion

Overview

Hideaki Kobayashi is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has a research focus primarily in engineering and chemical engineering, with significant contributions to computational mechanics and fluid flow and transfer processes. Their work also touches on aerospace engineering, materials chemistry, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's research covers a broad range of topics related to combustion and flame dynamics, with many publications exploring the behavior and characteristics of ammonia-related flames. Their overarching research interests include:

  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Advanced combustion engine technologies
  • Combustion and detonation processes
  • Catalytic processes in materials science
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics
  • Thermochemical biomass conversion processes

Kobayashi has published extensively in several peer-reviewed venues, showing particular prominence in the following journals and conference proceedings:

  • Fuel
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Applications in Energy and Combustion Science
  • TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
  • Combustion and Flame

Frequent coauthors include Akihiro Hayakawa, Taku Kudo, Ekenechukwu C. Okafor, Sophie Colson, and Hirofumi Yamashita, indicating collaborative research networks within combustion and related fields.

Representative recent papers by Hideaki Kobayashi illustrate the focus on flame characteristics, stability, and emission properties in ammonia and hydrogen combustion systems:

  • "Measurement of the laminar burning velocity and kinetics study of the importance of the hydrogen recovery mechanism of ammonia/hydrogen/air premixed flames" (2021), published in Combustion and Flame
  • "Flame stability and emissions characteristics of liquid ammonia spray co-fired with methane in a single stage swirl combustor" (2020), published in Fuel
  • "Influence of wall heat loss on the emission characteristics of premixed ammonia-air swirling flames interacting with the combustor wall" (2020), published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • "Turbulent burning velocity of ammonia/oxygen/nitrogen premixed flame in O2-enriched air condition" (2020), published in Fuel
  • "Effects of initial mixture temperature and pressure on laminar burning velocity and Markstein length of ammonia/air premixed laminar flames" (2021), published in Fuel

Hideaki Kobayashi's work has been recognized with the Fellow of the Combustion Institute award in 2018, citing contributions in the fundamental understanding of high-speed combustion, high-pressure turbulent premixed combustion, and ammonia combustion.

Best Publications

  • Science and technology of ammonia combustion

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Akihiro Hayakawa;K.D. Kunkuma A. Somarathne;Ekenechukwu C. Okafor

  • Experimental and numerical study of the laminar burning velocity of CH4–NH3–air premixed flames

    Ekenechukwu C. Okafor;Yuji Naito;Sophie Colson;Akinori Ichikawa

  • Laminar burning velocity and Markstein length of ammonia/air premixed flames at various pressures

    Akihiro Hayakawa;Takashi Goto;Rentaro Mimoto;Yoshiyuki Arakawa

  • Performances and emission characteristics of NH3–air and NH3CH4–air combustion gas-turbine power generations

    Osamu Kurata;Norihiko Iki;Takayuki Matsunuma;Takahiro Inoue

  • Measurement and modelling of the laminar burning velocity of methane-ammonia-air flames at high pressures using a reduced reaction mechanism

    Ekenechukwu Chijioke Okafor;Yuji Naito;Sophie Colson;Akinori Ichikawa

  • Laminar burning velocity and Markstein length of ammonia/hydrogen/air premixed flames at elevated pressures

    Akinori Ichikawa;Akihiro Hayakawa;Yuichi Kitagawa;K.D. Kunkuma Amila Somarathne

  • Towards the development of an efficient low-NOx ammonia combustor for a micro gas turbine

    Ekenechukwu C. Okafor;K.D. Kunkuma A. Somarathne;Akihiro Hayakawa;Taku Kudo

  • Control of NOx and other emissions in micro gas turbine combustors fuelled with mixtures of methane and ammonia

    Ekenechukwu C. Okafor;K.D. Kunkuma A. Somarathne;Rattanasupapornsak Ratthanan;Akihiro Hayakawa

  • Experimental investigation of stabilization and emission characteristics of ammonia/air premixed flames in a swirl combustor

    Akihiro Hayakawa;Yoshiyuki Arakawa;Rentaro Mimoto;K.D. Kunkuma A. Somarathne

  • Numerical study of a low emission gas turbine like combustor for turbulent ammonia/air premixed swirl flames with a secondary air injection at high pressure

    Kapuruge Don Kunkuma Amila Somarathne;Sotaro Hatakeyama;Akihiro Hayakawa;Hideaki Kobayashi

  • Burning velocity of turbulent premixed flames in a high-pressure environment

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Takashi Tamura;Kaoru Maruta;Takashi Niioka

  • NO formation/reduction mechanisms of ammonia/air premixed flames at various equivalence ratios and pressures

    Akihiro Hayakawa;Takashi Goto;Rentaro Mimoto;Taku Kudo

  • Development of a wide range-operable, rich-lean low-NOx combustor for NH3 fuel gas-turbine power generation

    Osamu Kurata;Norihiko Iki;Takahiro Inoue;Takayuki Matsunuma

  • Measurement of the laminar burning velocity and kinetics study of the importance of the hydrogen recovery mechanism of ammonia/hydrogen/air premixed flames

    Gabriel J. Gotama;Gabriel J. Gotama;Gabriel J. Gotama;Akihiro Hayakawa;Ekenechukwu C. Okafor;Ryuhei Kanoshima

  • Burning velocity correlation of methane/air turbulent premixed flames at high-pressure and high-temperature

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Katsuhiro Seyama;Hirokazu Hagiwara;Yasuhiro Ogami

  • Experimental study on general correlation of turbulent burning velocity at high pressure

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Yasuharu Kawabata;Kaoru Maruta

  • Turbulence measurements and observations of turbulent premixed flames at elevated pressures up to 3.0 MPa

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Teppei Nakashima;Takashi Tamura;Kaoru Maruta

  • Emission characteristics of turbulent non-premixed ammonia/air and methane/air swirl flames through a rich-lean combustor under various wall thermal boundary conditions at high pressure

    Kapuruge Don Kunkuma Amila Somarathne;Ekenechukwu C. Okafor;Akihiro Hayakawa;Taku Kudo

  • Flame stability and emissions characteristics of liquid ammonia spray co-fired with methane in a single stage swirl combustor

    Ekenechukwu C. Okafor;Hirofumi Yamashita;Akihiro Hayakawa;K.D. Kunkuma A. Somarathne

  • Laminar burning velocity of hydrogen-air premixed flames at elevated pressure

    Xiao Qin;Hideaki Kobayashi;Takashi Niioka

  • Effects of CO2 dilution on turbulent premixed flames at high pressure and high temperature

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Hirokazu Hagiwara;Hideaki Kaneko;Yasuhiro Ogami

  • Experimental study of high-pressure turbulent premixed flames

    Hideaki Kobayashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Ichiro Sora
Ichiro Sora Kobe University
Kaoru Maruta
Kaoru Maruta Tohoku University
Jinhua Wang
Jinhua Wang Xi'an Jiaotong University
Zuohua Huang
Zuohua Huang Xi'an Jiaotong University
Masaomi Iyo
Masaomi Iyo Chiba University
Norio Ozaki
Norio Ozaki Nagoya University
George R. Uhl
George R. Uhl University of Maryland, Baltimore
Michio Kadota
Michio Kadota Tohoku University
Nakao Iwata
Nakao Iwata Fujita Health University
Takashi Goto
Takashi Goto Tohoku University

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