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01 ABOUT ME

曾て我の自性を観ぜずんば、何ぞ能く法の実諦を知らん
Self Introduction
I am Ayumu Kuwahara, a postdoc at Center for Star and Planet Formation, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen. 
Research Interests
I am interested in theoretical aspect of planet formation. How did planets like the one we live on form?  Even simple questions like this still cannot be answered by modern planetary science. We struggle with this mystery using analytical formulas.  We also apply an approach called numerical simulation and attempt to reproduce on a blackboard or a computer a phenomenon that may be occurring somewhere in the universe at a certain instant. It is a bit like creating another small universe in the palm of your hand. By engaging in this field and with science as my weapon of choice, I can enjoy confronting the magnificently endless universe.
 
Key words: Planet formation, Pebble accretion, Hydrodynamics in a Protoplanetary disk, etc.
ABOUT ME
PUBLICATIONS

02 PUBLICATIONS

遐かなるを渉るには邇きよりす
Referred Journals
  1. Kuwahara, A., Lambrechts, M., Kurokawa, H., Okuzumi, S., and Tanigawa, T. (2024), Dust ring and gap formation by gas flow induced by low-mass planets embedded in protoplanetary disks II. Time-dependent model, A&A, 692, A45. [A&A]
  2. Kuwahara, A., and Kurokawa, H. (2024), Analytic description of the gas flow around planets embedded in protoplanetary disks, A&A, 682, A14. [A&A]
  3. Takaoka, K., Kuwahara, A.,  Ida, S., and Kurokawa, H. (2023), Spin of protoplanets generated by pebble accretion: Influences of protoplanet-induced gas flow, A&A 674, A193. [A&A] (A&A highlighted paper in 2023)
  4. Kuwahara, A., Kurokawa, H., Tanigawa, T., and Ida, S. (2022), Dust ring and gap formation by gas flow induced by low-mass planets embedded in protoplanetary disks I. Steady-state model, A&A, 665, A122. [A&A]
  5. Kuwahara, A., and Kurokawa, H. (2020b), Influences of protoplanet-induced three-dimensional gas flow on pebble accretion II. Headwind regime, A&A, 643, A21. [A&A]
  6. Kuwahara, A. and Kurokawa, H. (2020a), Influences of protoplanet-induced three-dimensional gas flow on pebble accretion I. Shear regime, A&A, 633, A81. [A&A]
  7. Kuwahara, A., Kurokawa, H., and Ida, S. (2019), Gas flow around a planet embedded in a protoplanetary disc. Dependence on planetary mass, A&A, 623, A179. [A&A]
Peer Reviewed Japanese Articles 
  1. Kuwahara, A., Kurokawa, H., Tanigawa, T., Okuzumi, S., and Ida, S., Gas flow induced by low-mass planets: Its influence on the dust surface density and planet formation, Planetary People – The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences, 32 (3), 176. [Link]
  2. Kuwahara, A., Gas flow induced by protoplanets: The three-dimensional morphology and the nature of the flow field, Planetary People – The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences, 31 (3), 188. [Link]
  3. Kuwahara, A., Gas flow induced by protoplanets: Influences on pebble accretion, Planetary People – The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences, 31 (3), 203. [Link]

03 Education

発心して遠渉せんには、足にあらざれば能わず

2023-

Postdoc
GLOBE Institute

working with Michiel Lambrechts

2020-2023

Ph.D. student 
(a JSPS Research Fellow, DC1), Tokyo Institute of Technology

Doctoral thesis: "Gas flow, dust dynamics, , and protoplanetary-disk substructures induced by embedded planets"

Supervisors: Shigeru Ida (ELSI), Hiroyuki Kurokawa (ELSI)

2018-2020

M. Sc. ​in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Master's thesis: "Pebble accretion in gas flow induced by protoplanets"

Supervisors: Shigeru Ida (ELSI), Hiroyuki Kurokawa (ELSI)

2014-2018

B. Sc. in Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Bachelor's thesis: "Gas dynamics around low mass planets embedded in a protoplanetary disk"

Supervisors: Shigeru Ida (ELSI), Hiroyuki Kurokawa (ELSI)

EDUCATION

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