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| Marine Dynamics Research Group |
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 SummaryMarine dynamics group are carrying out wide-ranging researches on dynamics of ships and other movable bodies in the ocean. Among them are researches on stability, seakeeping quality and manoeuvrability of ships. Developments of estimation method of manoeuvrability of ships including POD driven ships, advanced sail-assisted ships, technology of underwater robot system and researches on dynamics of planing boats are also included. Depending on various research objectives, broad range of experiments are within our field of activities such as free running model test at the 80m square tank, captive model test at the ocean engineering basin and the towing tanks, wind tunnel test for measuring wind forces and flow visualization, measurement of dynamics of underwater robot system in the deep-sea basin and, moreover, full scale trial at actual seas for large ships and small planing boats. We do hope to contribute to safe and advanced technology at sea through outcome of our research works, e.g., investigating into causes of marine accidents, researches for the international and domestic rules on ship stability, development of the integrated system for estimating ship manoeuvrability, proposal of estimation method for wind forces and wave drift forces, highly-qualified experimental techniques such as motion measurement using the kinematic GPS.   |
