Name

Norio Nakagawa

Contact Information

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
181 Applied Sciences Complex II
1915 Scholl Road
Ames, IA  50011-3042
515-294-9741
515-294-7771 FAX
nnakagaw@cnde.iastate.edu

CNDE Responsibilities

Norio Nakagawa is a Physicist at the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Iowa State University.  He received the B.S. in 1975, the M.S. in 1977, and the Ph.D. in 1984 in theoretical high-energy physics from the University of Tokyo.  He has been employed and conducting research since 1979, first at the Department of Physics, Purdue University (1979-1985), and then at Ames Laboratory and Center for NDE, Iowa State University (1985-present).  He began his employment at ISU as a postdoctoral fellow, and took the current position in May, 1990.

Nakagawa maintains research interests in two areas.  One is in the mathematical physics, topics including general field theory, scattering theory of fields and particles, and numerical analysis.  The other area of interest is in solving electromagnetic and other related problems by using various numerical techniques.  Currently, his major research topic is in constructing theoretical models of eddy-current nondestructive evaluation.  He has published roughly 30 physics papers and 15 applied-physics papers in scientific journals and research reports.

(Updated 10/26/2005)