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Kenji Takizawa

Kenji Takizawa

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
70
Citations
14207
World Ranking
403
National Ranking
2

Kenji Takizawa publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kenji Takizawa sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 322 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Kenji Takizawa D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kenji Takizawa sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 125 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 106 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Kenji Takizawa is affiliated with Waseda University in Japan. Their primary fields of study encompass Engineering and Computer Science, with a particular focus on Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Mechanics of Materials, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics of Takizawa's research include:

  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
  • Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Model Reduction and Neural Networks

Takizawa has a significant record of publications in notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences
  • Journal of Advanced Engineering and Computation
  • Journal of Mechanics
  • Journal of Fluids and Structures

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Takizawa include:

  • Heart valve isogeometric sequentially-coupled FSI analysis with the space-time topology change method, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • Ventricle-valve-aorta flow analysis with the Space-Time Isogeometric Discretization and Topology Change, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • Gas turbine computational flow and structure analysis with isogeometric discretization and a complex-geometry mesh generation method, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • Space-Time Variational Multiscale Isogeometric Analysis of a tsunami-shelter vertical-axis wind turbine, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • Element length calculation in B-spline meshes for complex geometries, 2020, Computational Mechanics

Takizawa has collaborated frequently with several other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tayfun E. Tezduyar
  • Takashi Kuraishi
  • Yuto Otoguro
  • Yuri Bazilevs
  • Takuya Terahara

In addition to journal publications, Takizawa has contributed to book publications. A notable work is titled "Space-Time Computational Flow Analysis," which is expected to be published by Modeling and simulation in science, engineering & technology in 2025.

Takizawa was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods and Applications

    Yuri Bazilevs;Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • 3D simulation of wind turbine rotors at full scale. Part I: Geometry modeling and aerodynamics

    Y. Bazilevs;Ming-Chen Hsu;I. Akkerman;S. Wright

  • Computational Fluid–Structure Interaction

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  • Multiscale space---time fluid---structure interaction techniques

    Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Space–Time and ALE-VMS Techniques for Patient-Specific Cardiovascular Fluid–Structure Interaction Modeling

    Kenji Takizawa;Yuri Bazilevs;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Exactly conservative semi-Lagrangian scheme for multi-dimensional hyperbolic equations with directional splitting technique

    Takashi Nakamura;Ryotaro Tanaka;Takashi Yabe;Kenji Takizawa

  • Computational Methods for Parachute Fluid–Structure Interactions

    Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Space–time finite element computation of complex fluid–structure interactions

    Tayfun E. Tezduyar;Kenji Takizawa;Creighton Moorman;Samuel Wright

  • SPACE–TIME FLUID–STRUCTURE INTERACTION METHODS

    Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • ALE-VMS AND ST-VMS METHODS FOR COMPUTER MODELING OF WIND-TURBINE ROTOR AERODYNAMICS AND FLUID–STRUCTURE INTERACTION

    Yuri Bazilevs;Ming Chen Hsu;Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Space–time interface-tracking with topology change (ST-TC)

    Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar;Austin Buscher;Shohei Asada

  • Space-Time Computational Techniques for the Aerodynamics of Flapping Wings

    Kenji Takizawa;Bradley Henicke;Anthony Puntel;Timothy Spielman

  • Numerical-performance studies for the stabilized space–time computation of wind-turbine rotor aerodynamics

    Kenji Takizawa;Bradley Henicke;Darren Montes;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Space---time VMS computation of wind-turbine rotor and tower aerodynamics

    Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar;Spenser Mcintyre;Nikolay Kostov

  • Stabilized space---time computation of wind-turbine rotor aerodynamics

    Kenji Takizawa;Bradley Henicke;Tayfun E. Tezduyar;Ming-Chen Hsu

  • Burning velocity measurement of fluorinated compounds by the spherical-vessel method

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  • Space-time finite element computation of arterial fluid-structure interactions with patient-specific data

    Kenji Takizawa;Jason Christopher;Tayfun E. Tezduyar;Sunil Sathe

  • Turbocharger flow computations with the Space-Time Isogeometric Analysis (ST-IGA)

    Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar;Yuto Otoguro;Takuya Terahara

  • METHODS FOR FSI MODELING OF SPACECRAFT PARACHUTE DYNAMICS AND COVER SEPARATION

    Kenji Takizawa;Darren Montes;Matthew Fritze;Spenser Mcintyre

  • CHALLENGES AND DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID–STRUCTURE INTERACTION

    Yuri Bazilevs;Kenji Takizawa;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • Space---time techniques for computational aerodynamics modeling of flapping wings of an actual locust

    Kenji Takizawa;Bradley Henicke;Anthony Puntel;Nikolay Kostov

  • Computational engineering analysis with the new-generation space---time methods

    Kenji Takizawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Tayfun E. Tezduyar
Tayfun E. Tezduyar Rice University
Yuri Bazilevs
Yuri Bazilevs Brown University
Ming-Chen Hsu
Ming-Chen Hsu Iowa State University
Franco Rispoli
Franco Rispoli Sapienza University of Rome
Takuya Ueda
Takuya Ueda University of Tokyo
Ahmed Sameh
Ahmed Sameh Purdue University West Lafayette
Alison L. Marsden
Alison L. Marsden Stanford University
Feng Xiao
Feng Xiao Tokyo Institute of Technology

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