Mr. Masaaki Kimura recieved the student presentation award for his oral presentation (M. Kimura, R. Nishinohara, K. Sugikawa, S. Vinay, D. Ishihara, Integrated Analysis of Direct Numerical and At-Scale Models for Fluid-Structure Interaction Design of Insect-Mimetic MEMS Flyer）in The 44st JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology(2025/9/1-9/4).

Our work, published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, has ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the journal in 2023*: https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.5251 *Among work published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids between January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023, up to 12 months after publication.

Mr. Koki Hiura received the student presentation award for his oral presentation（K. Hiura, Y. Mitoma, D. Ishihara, Computational study on vibration characteristics of fluid-structure-piezoelectric-circuit interaction in piezoelectric energy harvesters in fluid）in The 43st JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology(2024/9/17-9/20).

The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers presented the 2024 Computional Mechanics Achievements Award established in 1990 by the Computational Mechanics Division to Prof. Daisuke ISHIHARA for his distinguished achievements in the field of computational mechanics.

Mr. Vinay Shankar (PhD student) got Ph.D.

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Computational fluid-structure interaction design approach for polymer micromachined insect-mimetic flapping wings of air vehicles

JSST 2023 Young Researcher Encouragement Award was presented by Japan Society for Simulation Technology (JSST) to Mr. Kazuya Ishiba for the paper entitled “Determination of Resonant Mechanism of Polymer Micromachined Insect Inspired Flapping Device Using Finite Element Modal Analysis”.

Our paper is highlighted by Cover for Biomimetics (https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/8/8). Biomimetics is peer-reviewed international journal on biomimicry and bionics, and has received Impact Factor of 4.5 along with Cite Score of 4.5. On Web of Science, Biomimetics ranks 22/90 (Q1) in “Engineering, Multidisciplinary”, 22/45 (Q2) in “Materials Science, Biomaterials”.