Emeritus Professor of Fukuoka Institute of Technology
Technical Adviser of NHK, Mizuno Co., Ltd. and Topgun Co., Ltd.
4-10-17 Wakagidai, Fukutsu, Fukuoka 811-3221
Tel. /Fax. +81-(0)940-43-2810
E-mail: mizota0208@yahoo.co.jp
http://www.fit.ac.jp/~mizota/lab.html

 In the 1970s, he started to investigate the flutter problem of the bluff body. It is noteworthy that, before the birth of the PIV method, he made a flow vector sensor named tandem type hot-wire, with which he had drawn successfully the stream-line pattern around the oscillating rectangular prisms. The crucial point of this phenomenon, he had clarified, was that the near wake has the characteristics of abrupt phase change. From the 1985s, his interest has been spreading to the erratic behavior of baseball ball as the knuckle ball, fork ball and SFF. He had established the 3-D theory of golf ball flight by the concepts of the banked axis of spinning ball, instead of the side spin one. He succeeded in the explanation of the erratic flight of slowly spinning soccer ball according to the similarity of the smooth sphere aerodynamics in the supercritical Reynolds number region by Taneda (1978).
 He discovered one fresco picture, the flow pattern drawn in which had inspired the motivation to calculate the Karman Vortex Street. The discovery appeared in “Science in Culture" of Nature (2000) as a romantic story.
 His Keynote lecture at ISFA 2020 will be focused on the Sports Ball Aerodynamics.


Education and Career:

 Bachelor: Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto University, 1963-1967
 Master: Master Couse of Engineering, Kumamoto University, 1967-1969
 Career: Panasonic Co. (Present name), 1969-1970

Research Career:

 Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, 1970-1985
 Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 1985-2014
 University of Salford, England, April-August, 1998
 University of Leipzig, Germany, September, 1998-March, 1999