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 gmultihull vessels,h ghigh-speed vessels,h gslammingh and gslosh dynamics.h
ProfessorFKIHARA, Hajime
Current TeachingFNaval Architecture B, Introduction of Naval Architecture, Mechanical Systems Design and DrawingⅡ, Ship Hydrodynamics Ⅰ, Hydroelasticity, Computational MechanicsⅡ
Research InterestFNaval Architecture, Ocean Engineering
KeywordsFShip Motion, Wave-induced Loads, Nonlinear Interaction Between Waves and Floating Body
E-mailFhkihara
LecturerFHIBI, Shigeyuki
Current TeachingFMechanics of MaterialsⅠ, Mechanics of MaterialsⅡ, PhysicsⅡ, Applied Computer AnalysisⅠ, Structural Design of Ships, Computational MechanicsⅠ
Research InterestFNaval and Ocean Engineering, Structural Design of Ships
KeywordsFWave-induced Loads, Impact Loads, Particle Method
E-mailFhibiteru