Takafumi Nishino

Taka is an aerodynamicist with 20 years of research experience in theoretical and computational fluid mechanics. He studied mechanical engineering at Kyoto University for his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and then obtained his PhD in aerodynamics at the University of Southampton in 2007. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher for 3 years at NASA Ames Research Center, and then for another 3 years at the University of Oxford. He took up a lectureship at Cranfield University in 2014, and then moved back to Oxford in 2018.

In 2023, he received an Outstanding Research Supervision award from the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division of the University of Oxford. During his career, he has proposed several innovative ideas for understanding multiscale flow physics of wind and tidal-stream power generation, such as the concept of “local” and “global” blockage for turbine arrays, modelling of “blade-induced” turbulence, and more recently, the concept of “wind extractability” which determines the upper limit of wind farm power density.

Taka’s personal website can be found here .