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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

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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