Faculty|Department of Ocean Technology,Policy, and Environment Graduate School,The University of Tokyo

Faculty

Marine Environmental Modeling and Synthesizing

• Toru SATO Professor

Simulation of CO2 gas seepage with making fractures in the subsea sediment


Generation of gas pass using a solid-gas-liquid three-phase flow simulator


Simulation of methane hydrate formation in a micro-scale sand sediment

Our researches are aimed to form concepts of environmentally harmonizing systems, which coexist with natural environments for the global sustainability. For this purpose, we are developing computational models of environments using physics, chemistry, and biology, etc. Then these models are synthesized into simulation systems in order to predict environmental impacts and construct public acceptance. Our research interests are CO₂ storage in the deep ocean and in subsea underground, biological CO₂ fixation, formation and dissociation of methane hydrate, CO₂ geological storage by hydrate, development of photobioreactors for microalgae, development of multi-scale ocean model, modeling of flashing light effect of photosynthesis and the effects of CO₂ on marine biota.