Profile
Assoc Prof Akihiro HAYAKAWA
Principal Investigator
Dr Akihiro Hayakawa is an associate professor at the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan. He received his PhD at Kyushu University, Japan, in 2013. Dr Hayakawa worked at IFS since April 2013 as an assistant professor in Prof Hideaki Kobayashi’s laboratory. He was promoted to an associate professor in 2020. He was a visiting researcher of Prof. Simone Hochgreb’s laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 2015.
Japan
Researchers
HYCOMBS
Research Interest
- Ammonia combustion
- Turbulent combustion
- High pressure combustion
- Laser diagnostics such as LITGS (Laser Induced Thermal Grating Spectroscopy)
Key Publications
Google Scholar Link
A. Hayakawa, T. Goto, R. Mimoto, Y. Arakawa, T. Kudo and H. Kobayashi, “Laminar burning velocity and markstein length of ammonia/air premixed flames at various pressures,” Fuel, vol. 159, pp. 98–106, 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2015.06.070.
A. Hayakawa, Y. Arakawa, R. Mimoto, K. K. A. Somarathne, T. Kudo and H. Kobayashi, “Experimental investigation of stabilization and emission characteristics of ammonia/air premixed flames in a swirl combustor,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 42, no. 19, pp. 14 010–14 018, 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.01.046.
A. Ichikawa, Y. Naito, A. Hayakawa, T. Kudo and H. Kobayashi, “Burning velocity and flame structure of ch4/nh3/air turbulent premixed flames at high pressure,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 44, no. 13, pp. 6991–6999, 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.01.193.
R. Kanoshima et al., “Effects of initial mixture temperature and pressure on laminar burning velocity and markstein length of ammonia/air premixed laminar flames,” Fuel, vol. 310, p. 122 149, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2021.122149.
A. Hayakawa et al., “Experimental and numerical study of product gas and n2o emission characteristics of ammonia/ hydrogen/ air premixed laminar flames stabilized in a stagnation flow,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 1625–1633, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.proci.2022.08.124.
Achievements
2023 Young Investigator Award, The Steering Committee of ASPACC 2021
2022 Energy and Fuels Rising Stars, ACS Publications
2022 Young Researcher Award, Combustion Society of Japan