Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

PhD (Aerospace Engineering) Nagoya University, JAPAN

 

 

 

Contact Information

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

  1. 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)
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
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