Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
PhD (Aerospace Engineering) Nagoya University, JAPAN
Contact Information
- Office: POST 201H
- Phone: (808) 956-5062
- E-mail: hozawa9@hawaii.edu
- Research Website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/hypersonics/
Research Interests
- Non Stationary High Speed Aerothermodynamics
- Transient Optical Flow Diagnostics
- Shock/Shock and Shock/Boundary Layer Interactions
- Laminar to Turbulent Boundary Layer Transition in Hypersonic Flows
- Supersonic Combustion
Selected Publications
- Kosuke, Y. and Ozawa, H (2025) “Heat Transfer Visualization of Transitional Growth of
Turbulent Spot on a Wedge in Mach 5.2 Hypersonic Flow Using Fast-Response TSP“,
Experiments in Fluids, (accepted, January 2025) - Bicak, AT., Ozawa, H., “Influence of Freestream Reynolds Number on Unsteady
Reflected-Shock Boundary-Layer Interaction in Shock Tube Experiments”, AIAA-2025-
0115, Scitech 2024 (Invited). - Inasawa, A., Ozawa, H., Asai, M., Tokugawa, N., Atobe, T., Kwak, D., (2022) “Experiments
on transition of swept-wing boundary layer at chord Reynolds numbers up to 10^7”, The
2022 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology, APISAT, October 12, 2022. - Whalen, TJ., Laurence, SJ., Marineau, E., Ozawa, H., (2021) “A Green’s function approach
to heat-flux estimation from temperature-sensitive paint measurements”,
Measurement Science and Technology (Special Issue on Pressure-Sensitive and
Temperature-Sensitive Paints for Measuring High Speed and Unsteady Flows), 32:114011. - Ozawa, H., (2019) “Experimental investigation of high-speed aerothermodynamics
phenomena using Temperature Sensitive Paint”, the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics,
NAGARE, vol. 38, pp.156-161. - Ozawa, H., Laurence, SJ., (2018) “Experimental Investigation of the Shock-Induced Flow
over a Wall-Mounted Cylinder”, J. Fluid. Mech., Vol.849, pp.1009-1042. - Ozawa, H., Laurence, SJ., Schramm, JM., Wagner, A., Hannemann, K., (2015) “Fast-
response temperature-sensitive-paint measurements on a hypersonic transition cone”,
Exp. Fluids., 56(1):1853.
Full list of publications available:
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/hypersonics/publications/
Courses Offered
- ME424: Introduction to Gas Dynamics