The Ocean Engineering Laboratory undertakes research aiming to estimate wave exciting forces and loads for a wide range of floating structures ranging from ships to oil platforms and similar floating bodies, and to examine the strength of such structures. At the Laboratory, students learn about interactions between fluids and structures through computer simulations and modeling experiments. Keywords for some of the most important research currently being undertaken at the Laboratory are “multihull vessels,” “high-speed vessels,” “slamming” and “slosh dynamics.”
Professor：KIHARA, Hajime
Current Teaching：Naval Architecture B, Introduction of Naval Architecture, Mechanical Systems Design and DrawingⅡ, Ship Hydrodynamics Ⅰ, Hydroelasticity, Computational MechanicsⅡ
Research Interest：Naval Architecture, Ocean Engineering
Keywords：Ship Motion, Wave-induced Loads, Nonlinear Interaction Between Waves and Floating Body
E-mail：hkihara
Lecturer：HIBI, Shigeyuki
Current Teaching：Mechanics of MaterialsⅠ, Mechanics of MaterialsⅡ, PhysicsⅡ, Applied Computer AnalysisⅠ, Structural Design of Ships, Computational MechanicsⅠ
Research Interest：Naval and Ocean Engineering, Structural Design of Ships
Keywords：Wave-induced Loads, Impact Loads, Particle Method
E-mail：hibiteru
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