Skin Vessel
Project Skinvessel leverages research from the Production Technology Research Institute to develop concepts that may lead to new products and services. In partnership with the DLX Design Lab, the Hasegawa Laboratory is working on a bodysuit designed to assist with temperature regulation by effectively “wearing blood vessels over the body.” The image below envisions a future scenario where the suit could be worn in extreme environments such as outer space or underwater.
In the Hasegawa Laboratory, we focus on predicting and controlling fluid flow and the accompanying heat transfer. As part of this research, we developed an optimization algorithm for flow channels that satisfies two conflicting goals at once: “minimizing the pumping power required to drive fluid within a given space while maximizing cooling efficiency.” Many of the resulting optimal flow paths feature branched structures resembling biological vascular networks. This led to the hypothesis: “If we could wear a branching structure like blood vessels, might we achieve more efficient heat exchange in the human body?”
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