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NUMERICAL MODELING / SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Shun Kikuchi

I work on coupled heat and moisture transport in frozen soils and artificial ground freezing, spanning physical modeling, finite element implementation, nonlinear solvers, and parallel computing.

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Shun Kikuchi
Field
Frozen ground / FEM
Software
FTCMS
Stack
Fortran / PETSc / MPI

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Research

Numerical methods for coupled processes in frozen soils and artificial ground freezing.

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Freezing and Thawing of Saturated and Unsaturated Soils

Coupled simulation of heat transfer, liquid water flow, water vapor transport, and water–ice phase change.

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Artificial Ground Freezing

Numerical evaluation of groundwater flow, freezing-pipe layouts, and internal pipe heat transport on frozen-ground formation.

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Selected outputs

  1. 2026

    Determining Representative Length in Analytical Model for Artificial Ground Freezing: A Numerical Study

    Kikuchi, Shun and Saito, Hirotaka and Oishi, Masato and Watanabe, Kunio and Yabuchi, Yusuke

    Cold Regions Science and TechnologyVol. 245104842

    DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2026.104842
  2. 2025

    Effect of Different Latent Heat Treatments on Numerical Analysis of Ground Freezing Processes

    Kikuchi, Shun and Saito, Hirotaka and Oishi, Masato

    Journal of the Japanese Society of Soil PhysicsVol. 15913–24

    DOI: 10.34467/jssoilphysics.159.0_13

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03 / Coupled FEM Solver

Software

FTCMS is a coupled heat and moisture finite element solver for freezing and thawing soils.

FTCMS

Fortran · PETSc · MPI · FEM

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