Saitoh, Kuniyasu

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Kyoto Sangyo University *Profile is at the time of the award.

2021Inamori Research GrantsBiology & Life sciences

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Research topics: Anomalous viscoelastic and elastoplastic properties of poly-dispersed particles and mathematical physics for their hierarchical structures of sizes

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Summary: Soft particulate systems, e.g. emulsions, foams, colloidal suspensions, and granular materials, are ubiquitous in nature and a better understanding of their rheological and mechanical properties is crucial to engineering science. Generally, soft particles are macroscopic in size such that their motions are not affected by thermal fluctuations. Instead, they can dissipate kinetic energy by dissipative forces such as inelastic interactions and viscous damping. Moreover, structures of soft particle packings are mostly disordered so that their mechanical responses to global deformations are heterogeneous in space. Because of these athermal, dissipative, and heterogeneous nature, soft particulate systems have been the subject of non-equilibrium physics including statistical mechanics and soft matter physics. There have been many theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of soft particulate systems. However, much less attention has been paid to “particle polydispersity”. For instance, size distributions of grains in seismic fault are given by power-law distribution functions which cause unexpectedly small resistance to shear and thus trigger serous earthquakes. This research aims to unveil the impact of particle polydispersity on the rheology and mechanics of soft particulate systems. By using molecular dynamics simulations, we try to reveal how the size distributions alter the macroscopic behavior of soft particles.

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I believe that there are still many new approaches for research on soft particles.While conducting physics and numerical simulations, I look forward to interpreting these results from different perspectives and ideas every day.

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