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KODAMA, Yoshiaki
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Last updated on
2009.0518 Japanese



Official Title
Senior Researcher
Center for CFD Research
National Maritime Research Institute

6-38-1, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0004, Japan.

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Resea
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Computational Fluid Dynamics
Drag reduction devices

Personal motto

SIMPLE IS BEST

Personal History

1949.02.20

Born in Suita City, Osaka

1964.04`1967.03

Kitano High School, Osaka

1967.04`1969.12

1st Science Category, Univ. of Tokyo

1969.12`1971.06

Bachelor course, Aeronautics Dept., Univ. of Tokyo

1971.07`1973.03

Master course, Aeronautics Dept., Univ. of Tokyo

1973.04`1975.08

1st Design Dept., Boat Division, Yamaha Motor Company, Ltd.

1976.04`1979.03

Doctor course, Dept. of Naval Architecture, Univ. of Tokyo, Doctor of Engineering

1979.04`2001.03

Ship Performance Division, Ship Research Institute, Ministry of Transport

2001.04`2005.03

Center for Smart Control of Turbulence, National Maritime Research Institute

2005.04`2006.03

Advanced Maritime Transport Technology Department, NMRI

2006.04`2009.03

Fluids Engineering Department, NMRI

2009.04`Present

Center for CFD Research, NMRI

1981.09`1982.09

Visiting Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Stanford University



Research Publications
Kodama, Y., 2009, " Air Lubrication as an Energy-Saving Device for Ships : Reduction of Frictional Drag by Injecting Air Bubbles at ShipE/span>s Bottom", Lectures at IMarEST and IMO Headquarters London, organized by the Japan Ship Centre, March 2009.

Kodama, Y., et al., 2007, " A Progress Report of a Research Project on Drag Reduction by Air Bubbles for Ships", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, July 2007.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2006, " Direct Comparison of Experiment and Numerical Simulation on Microbubble Flows for Skin Friction Reduction", Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, September 2006.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2006, " A Full Scale Microbubble Experiment Using a Cement Carrier", Proceeding of the 14th European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, April 2006, Ischia.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2005, " Dynamics of Air Bubbles as a Drag Reduction Device for Ships", ICFD2005, Second International Conference on Flow Dynamics, November 2005, Sendai.

Kodama, Y., 2005, " Ship designs for efficient and environmentally friendly maritime transport", 16th Convocation of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences, July 2005, Cairns.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2005, " Microbubbles-A Large Scale Model Experimentand a New Full Scale Experiment-", Proceedings of 5th Osaka Colloquium on Advanced Research on Ship Viscous Flow and Hull Form Design by EFD and CFD Approaches, March 2005, Sakai.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2005, " Practical application of microbubbles to ships--- Large scale model experiments and a new full scale experiment ----", Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Smart Control of Turbulence, March 2005, Tokyo.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2004, " Characteristics of Microbubble Drag Reduction on a 50m-long Flat Plate", Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation, September 2004, Pisa.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2004, " Possibility of Net Energy Saving of Microbubbles as a Drag Reduction Device for Ships", Proceedings of APHydro 2004, the 2nd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Marine Hydrodynamics, June 2004, Busan.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2004, " On the skin friction reduction mechanism of microbubbles", Proceedings of the 13th EDRM, European Drag Reduction Meeting, June 2004, Aussois.

Kodama, Y. et al., 2004, " Conditions for Microbubbles as a Practical Drag Reduction Device for Ships", Proceedings of ICMF04, the 5th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, No.535, May 2004, Yokohama.

Kodama, Y., Kakugawa, A., Takahashi, T., and Nagaya, S., 2002, "Issues on the Practical Application of Microbubbles to Full-scale Ships for Skin Friction Reduction", Advances in Turbulence IX, Proceedings of the 9th European Turbulence Conference, pp.3650378.

Kodama, Y., Kakugawa, A., Takahashi, T., Nagaya, S., and Sugiyama, K., 2002, "Microbubbles: Drag Reduction Mechanism and Applicability to Ships", Proceedings of the 24th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics.

Kodama, Y., Kakugawa, A., Takahashi, T. and Kawashima, H., 2000, "Experimental study on microbubbles and their applicability to ships for skin friction reduction.", Int. J. of Heat and Fluid Flow vol.21.

Kodama, Y., and Hino, T., 1999, "Effect of Body Geometry Expression and Grid Resolution on the Optimization of a Two-Dimensional Symmetric Wing", FEDSM, ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, San Francisco.

Kodama, Y., 1995, "Generation of 2D, 3D, and Surface Grids Using the Implicit Geometrical Method", AIAA 33rd Aerospace Sciences Meetings, AIAA 95-0218, 1995.01.

Kodama, Y. et al., 1992, "Computation of Ship's Resistance Using an NS Solver with Global Conservation -- Flat Plate and Series 60 Hull ---" J. of the Society of Naval Architecture, Japan, vol. 172, December 1992.

Kodama, Y., 1991, "Grid Generation around a Practical Ship Hull Form Using the Implicit Geometrical Method", J. of the Society of Naval Architecture, Japan, vol. 169, June 1991.


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