About me

Who I am

Masao Mori

Associate Professor, Ph.D.

  • Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  • Master's/Doctor's Program in Physics, University of Tsukuba
  • Degree Programs in Education, The College of Education, University of Tsukuba
  • Visiting Associate Professor at University of California,Los Angeles (Feb. 2005 - Mar. 2006)
  • Visiting Researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy (Aug. 1998 - Aug. 1999)

Research Interests

  Physics of Dark Matter Haloes

  • Dynamical structure of cold dark matter haloes and origin of scaling laws
  • Tidal interactions in sub-galactic dark matter haloes
  • Formation of dark-matter-deficient galaxies
  • Effects of Landau resonances on the cusp-core problem in cold dark matter models
  • Missing satellite problem in cold dark matter models and the collision of dark matter sub-haloes

  Galacy Collisions

  • Galaxy collisions and self-gravitational hydrodynamic instabilities
  • Galaxy collisions and the interstellar medium in a galaxy disk
  • Formation of the Andromeda Giant Southern Stream

  Galaxy formation

  • Formation and evolution of proto-galaxies
  • Formation of Lyman alpha emitters

  Galaxy evolution

  • Supernova-driven galactic wind
  • An analytical model of transonic galactic winds

  Galactic Habitable Zone

  • Galaxy Collisions and Galactic Habitable Zone

  Development and acceleration of numerical simulation codes

  • Development of an ultra-high accuracy fluid dynamics simulation code (Godunov-Density-Independent SPH)
  • A Hamiltonian Splitting for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
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  • GPU acceleration of N-body simulation using Hermite integrals
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