Haruka Tomobe (Ph.D.)

I graduated from the Graduate School of Agriculture at the Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) in 2020 and was awarded a PhD, in which I was investigating the constitutive model for root-soil interfaces and started the development of a multi-physical numerical simulator for plants based on the finite element method, named plantFEM (https://github.com/kazulagi/plantFEM.git). I got an Assistant Professor position at the National Institute of Technology, Toyota College in 2020 to work on plant-soil mechanical interaction and its application for geo-structural designing, and developed coupling analysis for soil, water and root growth. From 2021, I am working at the Tokyo Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor, where I am working on the numerical modeling on the engineering seismology, soil mechanics and plant biomechanics. I am interested in the bio-inspired engineering for geotechnical and earthquake engineering, and making wide range of collaboration work with numerious field such as the plant science and the operations research.

Numerical Examples

2-D Geo-plant interaction

3-D photosynthesis analysis

3-D seepage flow analysis

3-D adaptive mesher

3-D mesher for rigid frames

3-D modal analysis of a elastic cantilever

Earthquake simulation

Open Source Softwares

Multi-physical FEA solver for plant science and civil engineering.

plant FEM

Bibliography

(^* indicates the corresponding author)

2023

Journal paper

• Harusato Kimura^*, Haruka Tomobe, Hitoshi Morikawa, Method for estimating azimuthal intensity distribution of microtremors using simple arrays, Geophysical Journal International, 2023. (In press)

• Hidekazu Yoshioka^*, Motoh Tsujimura, Kunihiko Hamagami, Haruka Tomobe, Time‐average stochastic control based on a singular local Lévy model for environmental project planning under habit formation, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 46 (9), 10572-10601, 2023.

• Harusato Kimura, Hitoshi Morikawa^*, Haruka Tomobe, Kahori Iiyama, Estimation of phase velocity using array observation of microtremors with arbitrary shape, Earth, Planets and Space, 75 (1), 88, 2023.

• Haruka Tomobe, Satoru Tsugawa^*, Yuki Yoshida, Tetsuya Arita, Allen Yi-Lun Tsai, Minoru Kubo, Taku Demura, Shinichiro Sawa, A mechanical theory of competition between plant root growth and soil pressure reveals a potential mechanism of root penetration, Scientific Reports , 13 (1), 1-12, 2023.

• Hidekazu Yoshioka^*, Motoh Tsujimura, Haruka Tomobe, Modeling and computation of cost-constrained adaptive environmental management with discrete observation and intervention, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics , 424, 114974, 2023.

• Taiken Nakashima, Haruka Tomobe^*, Takumi Morigaki, Mengfan Yang, Hiroto Yamaguchi, Yoichiro Kato, Wei Guo, Vikas Sharma, Harusato Kimura, Hitoshi Morikawa, Non-destructive high-throughput measurement of elastic-viscous properties of maize using a novel ultra-micro sensor array and numerical validation, Scientific Reports , 13 (1), 4914, 2023.

• Hidekazu Yoshioka^*, Kunihiko Hamagami, Haruka Tomobe, A Non-local Fokker-Planck Equation with Application to Probabilistic Evaluation of Sediment Replenishment Projects, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability , 25 (1), 34, 2023.

• Haruka Tomobe^*, Vikas Sharma, Harusato Kimura, Hitoshi Morikawa, An Energy-based Overset Finite Element Method for Pseudo-static Structural Analysis, Journal of Scientific Computing , 94 (3), 55, 2023.

2022

Conference

• Hidekazu Yoshioka^*, Haruka Tomobe, A Complete Solution to a Long-Run Sand Augmentation Problem Under Uncertainty, Modeling, Simulation and Optimization: Proceedings of CoMSO 2021 , 127-133 1 2022

2021

Journal paper

• Haruka Tomobe^*, Kazunori Fujisawa, Akira Murakami. A Mohr-Coulomb-Vilar model for constitutive relationship in root-soil interface under changing suction. Soils and Foundations, 61(3), 815-835, 2021.

Conference

• Haruka Tomobe^*, Yu Tanaka, Tomoya Watanabe. plantFEM: A Numerical Platform for Multi-physical Simulation of Plants. Third International Workshop on Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems (MLCAS2021), 22, 2021.

• Hidekazu Yoshioka^*, Kunihiko Hamagami, Haruka Tomobe. Numerical Computation of Measure-Valued Solutions to a Hyperbolic Fokker-Planck Equation Subject to Nonlocal Boundary Conditions. International Conference on Applied Mathematics in Engineering (ICAME), 52, 2021.

2019

Journal paper

• Haruka Tomobe^*, Kazunori Fujisawa, Akira Murakami. Experiments and FE-analysis of 2-D root-soil contact problems based on node-to-segment approach. Soils and Foundations, 59(6), 1860-1874, 2019.

2017

Conference

• Haruka Tomobe^*, Kazunori Fujisawa, Akira Murakami. Shear tests and modeling of root-soil contact interface using novel pullout test. The 15th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 2017.

2016

Journal paper

• Haruka Tomobe^*, Murakami Akira. Estimation of Reinforced Shear Strength by Wheat Root System using Direct Shear Tests. Journal of Crop Research, 61, 33-39, 2016.

• Haruka Tomobe^*, Fujisawa Kazunori, Murakami Akira. Shear Tests and Modeling of Root-Soil Contact Interface by Using Novel Pullout Test. Transactions of The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering, 84(3), 223-232, 2016.

2012

Journal paper

• Haruka Tomobe^*, Collection of the Wild Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr. ssp. soja) along the Yodo River in southern Kyoto Prefecture and northern Osaka Prefecture, Annual report on exploration and introduction of plant genetic resources, 29, 127-133, 2012.

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