Shuji (大友衆示) attained his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2017 from Hokkaido University in Japan. His research project was to investigate the effect of turbulence on Savonius turbine under the supervision of Prof. Yuichi Murai and Dr. Yuji Tasaka at LFC (Laboratory for Flow Control) collaborated with Dr. Petr Denissenko of the University of Warwick. He has experimentally shown that Savonius turbine shows a better performance in a turbulent flow subjected to Richardson-Kolmogorov cascade by using hot-wire anemometry (HWA) and particle image velocimetry (PIV). During his BSc, he was awarded a scholarship from Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) for his PhD study under the supervision of Dr. Ignazio Maria Viola.

He is experimentally and analytically investigating unsteady aerodynamics of a flapping foil in a massively separated flow through the impulse theory. 

He stayed at UNFoLD (Unsteady Flow Diagnostics Laboratory), EPFL, Switzerland between October and December 2018 for the collaboration with Dr. Karen Mulleners, to investigate the fluid mechanics of a pitching wing.

He is also a part-time research assistant to develop a low-order model of the tidal energy harvesting device for Tidal Flyer Ltd. 

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Journal papers:

H. J. A. Bird, K. Ramesh, S. Otomo, I. M. Viola, "Usefulness of inviscid linear unsteady lifting-line theory for viscous large-amplitude problems", 2021, AIAA Journal, https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.J060808, preprint available on arXiv 

S. Otomo, K. Mulleners, K. Ramesh, I. M. Viola, "Unsteady Lift on a High-amplitude Pitching Aerofoil", 2021, Experiments in Fluids, 62, 6, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-020-03095-2

L. Bandiera*, G. Pavar*, G. Pisetta*, S. Otomo*, E. Mangano, J. R. Seckl, P. Digard, E. Molinari, F. Menolascina, I. M. Viola, "Face Coverings and Respiratory Tract Droplet Dispersion", Royal Society Open Science, 7: 201663, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201663, *co-first authors

Conference Proceedings (selected):

Y. Murai, T. Umemura, R. Sayama, Y. Horimoto, H.Y. Park, Y. Tasaka, S. Otomo, "Savonius wind turbine performance in high turbulence and its improvement by jet supply", International Conference on Power Engineering 2021 (ICOPE-2021), Kobe, Japan, 17/10/2021 - 21/10/2021 

H. J. A. Bird, K. Ramesh, S. Otomo, I. M. Viola, "Leading Edge Vortex Formation on Finite Wings Using Vortex Particles", 2021 AIAA SciTech Forum, online, 11/01/2021 - 15/01/2021, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-1196

Y. Murai, S. Otomo, Y. Tasaka, P. Denissenko, "Robustness of Savonius turbine for inflow of isotropic turbulence", The 24th National Symposium on Power and Energy Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 20/06/2019 - 21/06/2019, https://doi.org/10.1299/jsmepes.2019.24.C211

H. J. A. Bird, S. Otomo, K. Ramesh, I. M. Viola, "A Geometrically Non-Linear Time-Domain Unsteady Lifting-Line Theory", AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, San Diego, California, 07/01/2019 - 11/01/2019, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-1377

S. Otomo, S. Osuka, Y. Tasaka, Y. Murai, and P. Denissenko, "An Experimental Study on a Savonius Turbine in a Turbulent Flow" , 54th Meeting of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Hokkaido Branch, Tomakomai, Japan, 28/10/2016 - 29/10/2016, https://doi.org/10.1299/jsmehokkaido.2016.54.79

Awards:

Covid-19 Engineering Medal from School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh

ETP Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Exchanges (PECRE) Grant (£3000)

Best Presentation Award, School of Engineering Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Edinburgh 

Scholarship for PhD Study from JASSO (£85000)