Mark A. Page
Chief Scientist
Swift Engineering, San Clemente, CA

Presentation: "From Blended-Wings to Racecars and Back Again"

Mr. Page is the co-inventor of the modern Blended-Wing-Body configuration at McDonnell-Douglas/Boeing. While at McDonnell Douglas/Boeing for 18 years, he worked in the Stability & Control department on projects ranging from the Propfan to the HSCT supersonic transport. Later, he headed the aerodynamics department for the Boeing MD-90 during the design phase. His most rewarding project was the NASA-sponsored Blended-Wing-Body. Here Mr. Page served as the Technical Program Manager with Chief Designer Blaine Rawdon, and Program Manager Dr. Robert Liebeck. But in 1997 he went a little crazy, flipped the lift-vector upside-down, and got the racing bug. Since then, he has pursued 250mph IndyCars and 320mph Dragsters at Dan Gurney'a All-American Racers and Swift Engineering. Recently, he and Swift Engineering flipped the vector again to develop the KillerBee Blended-Wing UAV. These adventures reveal the surprising differences between racecar and airplane aerodynamic engineering, which is the subject of this presentation. Mr. Page holds patents for a trapped-vortex-cavity high-lift device, Blended-Wing-Body growth concepts, UAV launchers, and golf clubs.

Ryutaro Himeno
Director, Development Group
Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center, RIKEN, JAPAN

Presentation: "Japan's 10PetaFLOPS Supercomputer development project and grand challenges in CFD"

RIKEN started the project of developing a supercomputer with 10 peta FLOPS of performance from April, 2006. The supercomputer will start its partial operation in April, 2011 and its performance will be extended up to 10 peta FLOPS until March, 2012. We have collected target applications which will run on it and are making up a benchmark suit called Next Gen. BMT. It is composed of 21 application software from 5 categories: Nano Science, Life Science, Physics, Geo Science and Engineering. 6 of 21 are CFD applications. We have analyzed those CFD codes and have got how to improve those performances. The design of the supercomputer is going on now and the Next Gen. BMT is its measure. Those target applications should be tuned to run efficiently on the supercomputer. The project also included application software development. Currently, we are focusing on two fields, the nano science and life science. Simulation on both circulatory system and respiration system are planed in the life science application development. Those are CFD related software which will be coupled simulation with structure or physiology. Both topics of supercomputer and CFD related application development will be presented in detail in the talk.

Ryutaro Himeno received the Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Tokyo in 1988. In 1979, he joined Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., where he has been engaged in the research of applying CFD to the car aerodynamic development. In 1998, he joined RIKEN and is the director of the Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center. He is also a visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. He currently studies high performance computer system and life science applications.

Koichi Hishida
Professor, Department of System Design Engineering
Keio University, Yokohama, JAPAN

Presentation: "Phase Separation Control and Combined Laser Sensing in a Microchannel"

Micro- and nano-technologies will be expected to miniaturize the present large electrochemical analysis equipments, bringing about drastic changes in total analysis systems in the laboratory. This technology will be based upon the development of microfluidic devices in which numerous microchannels are integrated. Small fluid sample volumes are handled by a force on the liquid, which is generally exerted by an external electric field. This transport mechanism is well known as electrokinetically driven flow, that is, microscopic objects are transported by electrophoresis and electroosmotic flow is induced by the motion of ions. The accurate control of electrophoresis and electroosmotic flow is a key issue for the development of miniaturized and integrated systems. The present talk will focus on the sensing and control aspects of such flows, specifically:
i) laser sensing of electroosmotic flow,
ii) development of multivariable optical measurement,
iii) electrokinetic particle migration, and
iv) selective particle separation by acoustic radiation and electrostatic forces.

Professor Hishida received M.S. (1978) and PhD (1982) degrees in the department of Mechanical engineering from Keio University where he specialized in experimental fluid mechanics and heat transfer. He has developed dynamic flow measurements based on Laser techniques. He is currently a professor (1997) in the Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University. He has served on the advisory board of several international conferences and is currently an associate editor of Experiments in Fluid, a member of the international advisory board for Measurement Science and Technology (IOP), and organizing committee member of Application of Laser Technique to Fluid Mechanics. Furthermore, he is now the President of the Japanese Society of Fluid Mechanics in 2007. He has published nearly 140 articles in major international journals and presented 147 international conference papers.