International Maritime & Ocean Policy (国際海事・海洋政策科学研究部門)
Logistics Systems Science (流通・物流システム科学研究部門)
Oceanography & Maritime Sciences (海洋システム科学研究部門)
Maritime Transport Engineering (海事輸送工学研究部門)
Maritime Transport Engineering Research Department focuses on topics related ship performances on actual seas, optimal ship routing. Currently, there are various researches to contribute into ship operations.
(A) Accurate Estimation of Ship Motions and Added Resistance in Waves
Phenomenon of big ship motions and added resistance in waves, and they sometimes cause remarkable speed loss and dangerous accidents. The accurate estimation is inevitable by developing numerical models based on the seakeeping theory. These 2D and 3D seakeeping models are applied for our various studies.
(B) Accurate Estimation of Ocean Waves in Rough Seas Estimation of ocean wave characteristics
There are lots of unknown factors on ocean waves for fewer amount of measured database.
Third generation numerical wave model, WaveWATCH III, machine Learning method
(C) Optimal Ship Routing
The definition is “Predict accurate ocean weather conditions as possible, and select optimal ship route to minimize voyage time, GHG emissions, etc.”
(D) Collapse of Loaded Containers in Container Ship in Rough Seas
(4)PhD students
Year: 2025
D3 Kaichi Takeuchi
PhD Thesis on January, 2025
“Construction of One Week in Advance Work Safety Prediction System Combining Wave Prediction
Collapse of loaded containers have been occurring despite of larger-sized container ships. Mechanism of this phenomenon is analyzed from measured onboard data for 11,000TEU container ship. This study is conducted as the collaboration between Kobe University and Nippon Ship Yard.