Masaya SHIGETA, Ph.D. (Engineering)
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering, Tohoku University, JAPAN.
E-mail: shigeta AT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp
Professional Career & Education
- Professor (April 2021 - PRESENT)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
School of Engineering, Tohoku University, JAPAN.
- Associate Professor (August 2013 - March 2021)
Department of Energy Control of Processing, Research Division of Materials Joining Process,
Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, JAPAN.
- Visiting Scholar (concurrent) (October 2012 - December 2012)
Plasma & Nonlinear Dynamics Group, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
----(hosted by Prof. Jonathan S. WURTELE and Prof. Joel FAJANS)
- Visiting Professor (concurrent) (February 2010 - April 2010)
Natural Sciences and Technology, Institute of Advanced Science, University of Bologna, ITALY.
----(invited by Prof. Vittorio COLOMBO @ Department of Industrial Engineering)
- Assistant Professor (2007 - July 2013)
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Systems and Design,
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, JAPAN.
- Research Associate (2006)
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Systems and Design,
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, JAPAN.
- JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2005)
High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
(worked with Prof. Steven L. GIRSHICK)
- JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2004)
Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, and
Department of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering,
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN.
(worked with Prof. Takayuki WATANABE)
- Ph.D. in Engineering, (March, 2004)
Electromagnetic Intelligent Fluids Laboratory, Department of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, JAPAN. (Advisor: Prof. Hideya NISHIYAMA)
- Miyagi Prefecture Sendaidaiichi High School (High 47th)
- Tohoku University
-- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering -- Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (Shigeta Group)
- Osaka University
-- Joining and Welding Research Institute
-- Department of Energy Control of Processing (Tanaka Group)
- University of California, Berkeley -- Department of Physics -- Plasma & Nonlinear Dynamics Group
- University of Bologna -- Institute of Advanced Study -- Research Centre of Applied Mathematics -- Unibo Plasma Research Group
- University of Minnesota
-- Department of Mechanical Engineering
-- High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory
- Kyushu University
-- Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical
-- The 5th Laboratory (Watanabe Group)
- Tohoku University
-- Institute of Fluid Science
-- Electromagnetic Intelligent Fluids Laboratory (Nishiyama Group)
Awards
- The Physics of Welding Award, (August 7, 2025) -- Certificate
Title: Vortex generated on cathode surface and its role for air entrainment into argon arc plasma in a pulsed TIG welding with long cathode extension,
Masaya SHIGETA, Honatsu Sorai, Yosuke Kishimoto, Makoto Sugimoto, Joe Yoshikawa, Hisaya Komen, Manabu Tanaka
- Award for Light Metal Welding Technology, (June 4, 2024) -- Certificate
Title: Numerical analysis of the correlation between arc plasma fluctuation and welding fume oparticle growth-transport under atmospheric pressure,
Masaya SHIGETA
- Welding Technology Encouragement Award, (May 18, 2024) -- Certificate
Masaya SHIGETA
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 8, 2023) -- Certificate
Title: Study of the Dominant Factor for Droplet Ejection from a Tungsten Electrode during AC Tungsten Inert Gas Welding
Authors: Kenta IIDA, Hisaya KOMEN,Manabu TANAKA, Masaya SHIGETA
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 9, 2022) -- Certificate
Title: Numerical investigation of influencing factors of slag transportation process during metal active gas welding using incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method
Authors: Takamasa FUKAZAWA, Hisaya KOMEN,Masaya SHIGETA,Manabu TANAKA
- Best Paper Award of Japan Welding Society, (April 13, 2022) -- Certificate
Title: Observation of Phenomena in the Slag Bath during Electroslag Welding
Authors: YAMAZAKI Kei，ASANO Ryo，TODA Ryo，SAITO Yasuyuki，SHIGETA Masaya，TANAKA Manabu
- Commendation of Contribution to the Fluids Engineering Division, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, (November 9, 2021) -- Certificate
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 3, 2021) -- Certificate
Title: Three-dimensional particle simulation of metal droplet transfer with flux colomn formation in flux-cored arc welding
Authors: Ryo Ueno, Masaya SHIGETA, Manabu TANAKA
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 3, 2021) -- Certificate
Title: Relation between emission region near a electrode and electrode erosion during TIG welding
Authors: Keigo TANAKA, Masaya SHIGETA, Manabu TANAKA
- Best Paper Award of Japan Welding Society, (April 26, 2021) -- Certificate
Title: Effect of shielding gas composition on gas metal arc welding phenomena using rare earth metal added wire
Authors: TANAKA Manabu, METHONG Titinan, KOMEN Hisaya, SHIGETA Masaya, KATAOKA Tokihiko, MATSUSHITA Muneo, KOZUKI Shohei - Award of Welding Arc Physics, (August 5, 2020) -- Certificate
Title: Modelling of Flux-Cored Arc Welding and Numerical Analysis of Metal Droplet Detachment Mechanism
Authors: Masaya SHIGETA, Tomohiro SUGAI, Manabu TANAKA, Hisaya KOMEN, Naoki MUKAI, Yoshihide INOUE
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 5, 2020) -- Certificate
Title: Experimental Study of Electrode Consumption Mechanism with Metal Vapor Generated During TIG welding
Authors: Keigo TANAKA, Masaya SHIGETA, Manabu TANAKA
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 5, 2020) -- Certificate
Title: Investigation of Welding Condition for Narrow-gap Submerged Arc Welding
Authors: Yohei ABE, Mitsuyoshi NAKATANI, Takahiro FUJIMOTO, Masaya SHIGETA, Manabu TANAKA
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 6, 2019) -- Certificate
Title: Numerical Analysis of Correlation Between Arc Plasma's Fluctuation and Fume Particles' Growth-Transport in TIG welding
Authors: Masaya SHIGETA, Manabu TANAKA
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 6, 2019) -- Certificate
Title: Numerical Analysis of Submerged Arc Welding Phenomena by Incompressible SPH Method and Discrete Element Method
Authors: Hisaya KOMEN, Masaya SHIGETA, Manabu TANAKA, Yohei ABE, Takahiro FUJIMOTO, Mitsuyoshi NAKATANI
- Award of Plasma Science for Materials of JSPS the 153rd Committee, (January 17, 2019) -- Certificate
Title: Study of Flow Analysis Algorithm for Thermal Plasma
- Award of Welding Arc Physics, (August 3, 2018) -- Certificate
- Award for Excellent Treatise, Japan Light Metal Welding Association, (June 5, 2018) -- Certificate
- OSAKA UNIVERSITY AWARD (Young Professor Section), (November 21, 2017) -- Certificate
- Best Paper Award for Thermal Engineering, (August 10, 2016) -- Certificate
(Award for Presentation at the First Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference (PRTEC))
Title: Numerical Analysis of Convective Transfer of Nanopowder Generated around a Turbulent-Like Thermal Plasma Jet
Authors: Masaya Shigeta and Manabu Tanaka
- Award for Encouragement of Welding Physics and Technology, (August 2, 2016) -- Certificate
Title: Quantitative analysis of arc characteristics in SMAW
Authors: Masaya SHIGETA, Takahiro IKEDA, Manabu TANAKA, Tetsuo SUGA, Kazuyuki SUENAGA, Makoto OTA
- Best Paper Award of Japan Welding Society, (April 13, 2016) -- Certificate
Title: Analysis of dynamic plasma behaviors in gas metal arc welding by imaging spectroscopy
Authors: Masaya SHIGETA, Shota NAKANISHI, Manabu TANAKA and Anthony B. MURPHY
- Award of Welding Arc Physics, (August 4, 2015) -- Certificate
Title: Effect of plasma state on metal droplet transfer in gas metal arc welding
Authors: Manabu TANAKA, Masaya SHIGETA
- Osaka University Presidential Award for Encouragement, (July 14, 2015) -- Certificate
- Award for Encouragement of Research in The IUMRS International Conference in Asia 2014 (IUMRS-ICA 2014), (September 9, 2014) -- Certificate.
Title: Fluid-dynamic simulation of growing nanoparticle transport in plasma synthesis
Author: Masaya SHIGETA
- The Young Scientists' Prize, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, (April 15, 2014) -- Certificate
Title: Study of Growth Mechanism of Nanoarticles in Plasma Thermofluid Fields
- Best Paper Award of "Visualization in Joining & Welding Science through Advanced Measurements and Simulation",
(November 11, 2010) -- Certificate
Title: Three-dimensional simulation of a flow in an arc weld pool by SPH method
Authors: Masaya Shigeta, Masumi Ito, Seiichiro Izawa and Yu Fukunishi
- Outstanding Paper Award of Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan 2006,
(March 9, 2007) -- Certificate
Title: Numerical Investigation of Local Oxygen Injection Effect on Argon Induction Plasmas Using a Chemically Non-Equilibrium Model
Authors: Masaya Shigeta, Nobuhiko Atsuchi, and Takayuki Watanabe
- The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers - Young Engineers Award,
(April 8, 2005) -- Certificate
Title: Numerical Study of Micro/nano-Particle Synthesis Using Functionally Enhanced Plasma Flows
- The Student Presentation Award in the Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow Annual Meeting 2003, (September 6, 2003)
Title: Numerical Analysis of a Nano-Particle Synthesis by an RF Inductively Coupled Plasma
Academic Societies
- The Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers -- Member
- The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow -- Member
- Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics -- Member
- Japan Welding Society -- Member
- The Japan Society of Applied Physics -- Member
- Smart Processing Society for Materials, Environment & Energy -- Member
- The Heat Transfer Society of Japan -- Member
- American Physical Society -- Member
- International Plasma Chemistry Society -- Member, Board of Directors
Committees of Academic Societies
- Deputy manager of Tohoku Branch, The Heat Transfer Society of Japan -- (May 2024 - May 2025)
- Counsellor of Tohoku Branch, The Japan Welding Society -- (March 2024 - February 202)
- Planning and Management Committee member on Fluid Engineering Devision, the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers -- (April 2024 - March 2025)
- Planning and Management Committee member on DX Plasma Process, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) -- (April 2023 - (Core member from April 2024) )
- Deputy examiner of (2)Modelling and Simulation, Academic Roadmap, Division of Plasma Electronics, The Japan Society of Applied Physics -- (January 2023 - )
- Scholarly Member, The Japan Welding Engineering Society -- (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
- The Head of the First Category of Referee Board in The Japan Welding Society -- (April 2022 - )
- Delegated member of The Japan Welding Society. -- (April 2022 - March 2024)
- Planning secretary of Tohoku Branch, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. -- (April 2022 - March 2023)
- Trustee member of Tohoku Branch, The Japan Welding Society. -- (March 2022 - February 2024)
- Trustee member of Tohoku Branch, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. -- (March 2022 - February 2023)
- Delegated member of The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics -- (April 2021 - March 2023)
- Committee member on Plasma Science for Materials, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 153 Committee -- (April 2021 - March 2023)
- Editorial board member of The Japan Welding Society, Principal Reviewer of the First Category -- (June 2014 - )
- Committee member on Annual Meetings of Japan Welding Society -- (June 2014 - )
- Delegated member of Welding Method Association of Japan Welding Society -- (June 2014 - )
- Editorial board member of Smart Processing Society for Materials, Environment & Energy -- (April 2018 - )
- Executive member of Smart Processing Society for Materials, Environment & Energy -- (April 2018 - March 2022)
- Academic member of Smart Processing Society for Materials, Environment & Energy -- (April 2018 - March 2022)
- Delegated member of Web Conference Task Force in Fluid Engineering Devision, the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers -- (May 2020 - March 2021)
- Delegated member of Conference Working Group in Fluid Engineering Devision, the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers -- (April 2020 - March 2021)
- Committee member on Public Information of Fluid Engineering Devision, the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers -- (April 2013 - March 2020)
- Delegated member of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics -- (April 2018 - March 2020)
- Delegated member of KANSAI branch, Japan Welding Society -- (May 2018 - May 2020)
- Organizing committee member of Division of Plasma Electronics, The Japan Society of Applied Physics -- (April 2016 - March 2018)
- Auditor of KANSAI branch, Japan Welding Society -- (May 2016 - May 2018)
- Vice branch manager of KANSAI branch, Japan Welding Society -- (May 2014 - May 2016)
- Review board member of the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers -- (April 2012 - March 2014)
Governmental Organization
- Investigator of National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) -- (April 2017 - March 2019)
International Organization
- Board of Directors, International Plasma Chemistry Society -- (January 2020 - )
- Principal Reviewer, Welding in the World (edited by International Institute of Welding (IIW), published by Springer) -- (October 2017 - )
- External Advisory Board, European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Horizon 2020)
Project "NanoDome" -- (December 2015 - September 2018)
Refereeing for academic papers (30 journals, total 88 papers)
- Advanced Powder Technology, (published by Elsevier).
- Aerosol Science & Technology, (published by Taylor & Francis).
- Chemical Engineering Science, (published by Elsevier).
- Computational Particle Mechanics, (published by Springer).
- Contributions to Plasma Physics, (published by Wiley).
- Earozoru Kenkyu, (published by Japan Association of Aerosol Science and Technology).
- IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, (published by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)).
- International Journal of Emerging Multi-disciplinary Fluid Sciences, (published by www.multi-science.co.uk).
- International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, (published by Elsevier).
- Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, (published by Japan Society of Applied Physics).
- Journal of Aerosol Science, (published by Elsevier).
- Journal of Applied Physics, (published by Elsevier).
- Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, (published by Society of Chemical Engineering, Japan).
- Journal of Fluid Science and Technology, (published by Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers).
- Journal of Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow, (published by Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow).
- Journal of Materials Research, (published by Springer).
- Journal of Manufacturing Processes, (published by Springer).
- Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, (published by IOP Science).
- Journal of Smart Processing, (published by Smart Processing Society for Materials).
- Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, (published by Springer Boston).
- Journal of Visualization, (published by Springer).
- Nanotechnology, (published by IOP Science).
- Physica D, (published by Elsevier).
- Powder Technology, (published by Elsevier).
- Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, (published by Springer).
- Plasma Sources Science and Technology, (published by IOP Science).
- Quarterly Journal of the Japan Welding Society, (published by Japan Welding Society).
- Journal of Smart Processing, (published by Smart Processing Society for Materials).
- Thin Solid Films, (published by Elsevier).
- Welding In The World, (published by Springer).
Refereeing for international research grants (3 organization, total 4 applications)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada.
- U.S. Department of Energy, United States of America.
- Canada Council of the Arts, Canada.
Lectures
- Physics B (for 1st-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2021-
- Advanced Energy Systems Engineering (for Graduate students (Doctoral)) -- 2021-
- Introduction of Mechanical Engineering (for 3rd/4th-grade students, Undergrad. of other courses) -- 2021-
- Fluid Dynamics (for International Graduate students (Master)) -- 2021-
- Fundamentals and Applications of Computational Plasma Fluid Mechanics (for Graduate students (Master)) -- 2019 (Kyushu Univ., part-time)
- A Door to Academia (Manufacturing Science in JWRI (Type1)) (for 1st-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2019-2020
- Introduction of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Science (for International students, Undergrad.) -- 2016
- Transport Phenomena I (for 2nd-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2016-2020
- Engineering Design for Functional Materials (for Graduate students (Master)) -- 2015-2020
- Physics of Materials Processing I (for Graduate students (Master)) -- 2013-2020
- Basic Seminar "Frontier of Science/Engineering in Manufacture" (for 1st-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2014-2018
- Science and Engineering of Joining and Welding in Manufacture (for 1st-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2013-2018
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Experiment I: Wind tunnel experiment (for 3rd-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2006-2013
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Experiment II: Flow measurement by Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) (for 3rd-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2006-2012
- Fluid Mechanics I (for 2nd-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2007-2011, with Prof. Fukunishi
- Fluid mechanics I (for IMAC-U 2nd-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2012, with Prof. Fukunishi, Language = English
(IMAC-U: International Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course - Undergraduate)
- Kiso Zemi (small-group seminar): Science of Vortex (for 1st-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2008-2009, with Prof. Fukunishi and Prof. Izawa
- Sozo Kogaku Kenshu (small-group seminar): Design of High Drag Body (for 1st-grade students, Undergrad.) -- 2006-2008, with Prof. Fukunishi and Prof. Izawa