Background
Yagawa was born on October 24, 1942 in Fukuoka, Japan; the son of Gentei and Nobuko (Ishibashi) Yagawa.
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Yagawa studied at the University of Tokyo.
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Theory and Applications Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Mechanics, May 25–29, 1986, Tokyo: Volume 1.
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1987
Yagawa was born on October 24, 1942 in Fukuoka, Japan; the son of Gentei and Nobuko (Ishibashi) Yagawa.
Yagawa received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1965. Two years later he earned his Master of Arts degree in Engineering from the same university. In 1970, Genki was given a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo.
Yagawa began his career as a lecturer at the University of Tokyo in 1970. A year later he took a position of an associate professor at that university. In 1984, Genki became a professor at the University of Tokyo, where he served until 2004. Also he was a chairman of the Department of Quantum Engineering and Systems Science at the same university from 1989 to 1990 and again in 1993-1994.
In 1991, Genki was appointed a chairman of Graduate Program of the Department at the University of Tokyo and had held the position for a year and again in 1996-1997. He served as a council member of the University of Tokyo from 1998 to 2000. Since 2004 Yagawa has been a professor emeritus at the same university.
Also in 2004, Genki became a professor of Center for Computational Mechanics Research of Toyo University and had held the position for nine years. In 2005, he was appointed a director of Computational Mechanics Center of Toyo University, where he worked until 2011.
In addition, Yagawa was a visiting professor of Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Karlsruhe and a World Class University Professor of Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. Since 2013 he has been a professor emeritus and a visiting researcher at Toyo University and a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Science.
Yagawa has published 400 refereed journal papers and authored or edited 64 books or special issues of journals.
He created a new massively parallel computing method, where the hierarchical domain decomposition together with the variational method to satisfy the boundary conditions between the sub-domains is employed. Also Genki created a new method called the Free Mesh Method,where both pre-processing and main-processing of the finite element analysis can be parallelized easily in terms of nodes.
He developed a method to solve the 2D and 3D crack singularity problems in elastic and elastoplastic materials with the singularity solution superposed on the FEM solution.
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1987Yagawa is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Japan Society of Mathematical Education, International Association for Computational Mechanics, Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Engineering Academy of Japan and Science Council of Japan.
On April 11, 1971 Genki Yagawa married Chikako Wada. They have two children.
