Marcelo H. Kobayashi – UH Manoa Mechanical Engineering

PhD 1994, Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Lisbon/IST, Portugal
PhD 2003, Mathematics, Technical University of Lisbon/IST, Portugal

Contact Information

Phone (808) 956-6579
E-mail marcelok@hawaii.edu

A Cellworks Optimization Method for Air Vehicle Design, PI, funded by AFOSR, 2015-2018, $463,886
Development and Application of a Biologically Inspired Methodology for the Optimized, Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Objective Design of Air Vehicles, Single-PI, funded by AFOSR, 2009-2012, $374,471
Physical and Genetic Mechanisms Guiding the Evolution and Development of Dendritic, Flapping Insect-Wings, PI, funded by AFOSR, 2007-2009, $265,000
Optimal Design of Micro-Channel Heat Sink Cooling Systems for Defense Electronic Devices, PI, funded by Trex Enterprises Corporation, 2005, $65,000.
Development and Application of Genetic Programming in Design and Optimization of Ultra-wideband Metamaterials, Co-PI, funded by NSF, 2013-2015, $214,632 (PI: M. Iskander, UH Manoa)
Impact Forces from Tsunami-Driven Debris, Co-PI, funded by NSF, 2010-2013, $974,561 (PI: H.R. Riggs, UH Manoa)
Instrumentation for Fabrication, Characterization and Experimental Validation of Micro Aerial Vehicles with Flexible Wings Based on Evolutionary Aeroelastic Optimization, Co-PI, funded by AFOSR, 2008, $500,000 (PI: J-Q Sun, UC Merced)
Hawaii Open Supercomputing Center, Director, funded by NIST, 2010-2011, $5,000,000
HEET: Modeling Reverse Vortex Flow, task PI, funded by ONR, 2011-2012, $97,179
Low Earth Orbit Nanosat Integrated Defense Autonomous System (LEONIDAS), Thermal Control Sub-system Lead, funded by the US Army, 2007-2010, $100,000

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

JH Rayno, MF Iskander and MH Kobayashi (2016) “Hybrid Genetic Programming with Accelerating Genetic Algorithm Optimizer for 3D Metamaterial Design”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (15) 1743–1746
RM Kolonay and MH Kobayashi (2015) “Topology, Shape, Sizing, Control Surface Optimization Using a Cellular Division Method”, AIAA Journal of Aircraft (52) 2051–2063
BK Stanford, PS Beran and MH Kobayashi (2013) “Simultaneous Topology Optimization of Membrane Wings and Their Compliant Flapping Mechanisms”, AIAA Journal (51) 1431–1441
HTC Pedro and MH Kobayashi (2011) “On a cellular division method for topology optimization”, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering (88) 1175–1197

Computational Fluid Dynamics

MH Kobayashi and JMC Pereira (2005) “A Computational Stream Function Method for Incompressible Viscous Flows”, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering (62) 1950–1981
JMC Pereira, MH Kobayashi and JCF Pereira (2001) “A fourth order accurate finite volume compact scheme for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations”, Journal of Computational Physics (167) 217–243
MH Kobayashi (1999) “On a class of Padé finite volume methods”, Journal of Computational Physics (156) 137–180
MH Kobayashi, JMC Pereira and JCF Pereira (1999) “A conservative finite-volume second-order-accurate projection method on hybrid unstructured grids”, Journal of Computational Physics (150) 40–75

Fluid Mechanics

EA Lim, MH Kobayashi and CFM Coimbra (2014) “Fractional Dynamics of Tethered Particles in Oscillatory Stokes Flows”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (746) 606–625
EA Lim, CFM Coimbra and MH Kobayashi (2005) “Dynamics of Suspended Particles in Eccentrically Rotating Flows”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (535) 101–110
CFM Coimbra and MH Kobayashi (2002) “On the viscous motion of a small particle in a rotating cylinder”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (469) 257–286
LMBC Campos and MH Kobayashi (2000) “On the reflection and transmission of sound in a thick shear layer”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (424) 303–326

Dynamical Systems

M Chyba, MH Kobayashi, F Mercier, J Rader, G Telleschi and A Tamura-Sato (2011) “A new approach to modeling morphogenesis using control theory”, Sao Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences (5) 281–315
G Terra and MH Kobayashi (2004) “On the Variational Mechanics with Non-linear Constraints”, Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (85) 629–671
G Terra and MH Kobayashi (2004) “On classical mechanical systems with non-linear constraints”, Journal of Geometry and Physics (49) 385–417
HMA Castro, MH Kobayashi and WM Oliva (2001) “Partially hyperbolic Σ-geodesic flows”, Journal of Differential Equations (169) 142–168