Nobuaki Sakamoto, Ph.D.(in Japanese)


Happy 6014th Birthday, Earth!

Position:Researcher
E-mail:sakamoto<at>nmri.go.jp, <at>=@
Phone:0422-41-3661
Research interests:6DOF ship motions、moving/overset grid
Professional organizations:JASNAOE
My favorite:Judo, MMA

Personal profile:
1999−2003 Osaka Prefecture University, Dept. Marine System Eng.
2003−2005 The University of Iowa, IIHR-Hydrodcience&Engineering
       Department of Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc.
2005−2009 The University of Iowa, IIHR Ph.D. Course
2009      Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
2003−2009 Graduate Research Assistant, IIHR-Hydroscience&Engineering
       The University of Iowa.
       Teaching Assistant, The University of Iowa.
2009     National Maritime Research Institute, CCR
2011     National maritime Research Institute, Fluids and Hull Design Dept.
Peer reviewed publications:
■Sakamoto N., Kawanami Y and Uto S, 2011, Computational Study for Single-Screw and Twin-Skeg Container Ships in Full-Scale by Unstructured Grid based RANS Solver, JASNAOE Annual Fall Meeting, Tokyo, JAPAN.
■Sakamoto N, Carrica P.M. and Stern F., 2010, URANS Simulation
 of Static and Dynamic Maneuvering for Surface Combatant: Part1-Verification
 and Validation of Forces, Moment and Hydrodynamic Derivatives, under review at JMST.
■Sakamoto N, Carrica P.M. and Stern F., 2010, URANS and DES Simulation
 of Static and Dynamic Maneuvering for Surface Combatant: Part 2-Analysis
 and Validation for Local Flow Characteristics, under review at JMST.
■Sakamoto N, Wilson R.V. ans Stern F., 2007, Reynolds-Averaged
 Navier-Stokes Simulations for High-Speed Wigley Hull in Deep and
 Shallow Water, Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 51, No.3, pp. 187-203.

Conference proceedings:
■Sakamoto N., Ohashi K., Kobayashi H., and Hirata N., 2011, Analysis of
Non-Linear/Large-Amplitude Motions of Submerged and Floating Bodies by
URANS Simulation with Moving Grid Technique,The 25th CFD Symposium.
■Sakamoto N., Kawanami Y and Uto S, 2011, Computational Study for Single-Screw and Twin-Skeg Container Ships in Full-Scale by Unstructured Grid based RANS Solver, JASNAOE Annual Fall Meeting, Tokyo, JAPAN.
■Sakamoto N., Kawanami Y and Uto S, 2011, Investigations for Wake Field of Single-Screw and Twin-Skeg Container Ships in Model and Full-Scale by Unstructured grid based RANS Solver, NuTTs 2011, Southampton UK.
■Sakamoto and Hino, 2010, URANS Simulation of a Ship Flow with Dynamic Motion by a Moving Grid Method, The 24th CFD Symposium.
■Sakamoto and Hino, 2010, Unsteady Flow Simulations for Dynamically Moving 2D and 3D Geometries by Unstructured Grid Based RANS Solver, NuTTs 2010.
■Sakamoto, Sato, Tahara and Hino, 2009, RANS Simulation with overset grid method for the flow around a ship with a rudder, The 23rd CFD Symposium.
■Sakamoto and Hino, 2009, RANS Simulation for High Speed Ship in Steady Turning Motion, JASNAOE Fall meeting, in Japanese.
■Zlatev Z, Milanov E, Chotukova V, Sakamoto N, and Stern F, 2009, Combined
 Model Scale EFD-CFD Investigation of the Maneuvering Characteristic of a
 High Speed Catamaran, Proc. 9th FAST, Athens, GREECE.
■Sakamoto N, Carrica P.M., and Stern F., 2008, URANS and DES Simulations
 of the Flow around Surface Combatant in Static and Dynamic PMM Motions,
 Proc. 3rd PAAMES and AMEC 2008, Chiba, JAPAN.
■Sakamoto N, Carrica P.M., and Stern F., 2008, URANS and DES Simulation
 of Static and Dynamic Maneuvering for Surcace Combatan, Proc. SIMMAN
 2008, Lyngby, DENMARK.
■Yang J, Sakamoto N, Wang Z, Carrica, P.M. and Stern F., 2007, Two Phase
 Level-Set/Immersed-Boundary Cartesian Grid method for Ship Hydrodynamics,
 Proc. 9th NSH, Michigan, U.S.A.
■Sakamoto N, Wilson R.V. and Stern F., 2005, RANS Simulations for High Speed
 Ships in Deep and Shallow Water, Proc. FAST 2005, St.Petersburg, RUSSIA.

Honors:
■2011. April: Awards from NMRI Administrative Director.