Hikaru Aono

Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Address: 2211 FXB, Phone: (734) 763-5896, e-mail: aonoh@umich.edu

Hikaru Aono is currently postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has joined the Computational Thermo-Fluids group under supervision of Dr. Shyy from April 2008. Before coming to the United States he received his Ph.D degree supervised by Dr. Liu at Graduate School of Science and Technology at Chiba University in Japan. His working and interesting topics are aerodynamics,  fluid physics and fluid-structure interactions of flapping wings at low Reynolds numbers.

Education:

• 2008, Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, JAPAN
  Dissertation title: A simulation-based flapping mechanisms in insect flapping flights
  
• 2005, M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University,  JAPAN
  Master thesis title: A computational study of aerodynamics of hawkmoth in hovering and forward flight (In Japanese)
• 2004, B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Department of Engineering, Chiba University, JAPAN
  BS thesis title: Developments of realistic computational models of insects based on imaging and digitizing techniques (In Japanese)

Research Interests:

• Numerical simulation: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Structural Dynamics
• Multi-physics simulation: Fluid-structure interaction
• Aerodynamics, fluid physics, control, stability, and sound generation in animal flapping flight (Insects, Bats, and Birds)
• Biomechanics

See http://shyylab.engin.umich.edu/research/micro-air-vehicle/ for more details.

Curriculum Vitae on September 2009: DL