Professor Emeritus Hiroaki Tanaka
Japanese Mode is Here
Updated: Oct. 30, 2014
Professor Hiroaki Tanaka (1940-1988)
Preface by Masaru Hirata, Nobuhide Kasagi and Shigeo Maruyama (in Japanese)
Brief CV
- August 11, 1940: Born in Ibaraki Prefecture
- March 1959: Graduate from Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School
- March 1963: Graduate from The University of Tokyo, Department of Mechanical
Engineering
- March 1965: Master of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- March 1968: Doctor of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Department
of Mechanical Engineering
- March 1968: Lecturer at The University of Tokyo, Department of Mechanical
Engineering
- April 1969: Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo, Department
of Mechanical Engineering
- April 1980- March 1981: Visiting Associate Professor at UC Davis
- November 1982: Professor at The University of Tokyo, Department of Mechanical
Engineering
- April 1985: Department Head of Mechanical Engineering, The University of
Tokyo
- February 19, 1988: Died at 47.
List of publications (in English)
- Tanaka Hiroaki, Nishiwaki Niichi, Hirata Masaru, Tsuge Ayao, Forced convection heat transfer to fluid near critical point flowing in
circular tube, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 14, Issue 6,
June 1971, Pages 739–750.
- Hiroaki Tanaka, A Theoretical Study on Dropwise Condensation : 2nd Report, A Theory Taking into Account that Droplets Exclude One Another, Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 40 (1974)
No. 336 P 2283-2294 (in Japanese).
- Hiroaki Tanaka, A Theoretical Study of Dropwise Condensation, Journal of Heat Transfer, J. Heat Transfer 97(1), 72-78 (Feb 01, 1975).
- H. Tanaka, Measurements of Drop-Size Distributions During Transient Dropwise Condensation, J. Heat Transfer 97(3), 341-346 (Aug 01, 1975).
- Tanaka Hiroaki, Miyata Hiroshi, Turbulent natural convection in a horizontal water layer heated from below, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 23, Issue 9,
September 1980, Pages 1273–1281.
- Hiroaki Tanaka, Effect of Knudsen Number on Dropwise Condensation, J. Heat Transfer 103(3), 606-607 (Aug 01, 1981).
- Tanaka Hiroaki, Maruyama Shigeo, Hatano Shunichi, Combined forced and natural convection heat transfer for upward flow in a uniformly heated, vertical pipe, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 1987, Pages 165–174.
- Tsuruta Takaharu, Hiroaki Tanaka, A theoretical study on the constriction resistance in dropwise condensation, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 34, Issue 11,
November 1991, Pages 2779-2786





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