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2006.01.6Director, Advance Maritime Transport Technology Department,
Leader, Super Eco-Ship Project Team,
Head of Smart Control of Turbulence Group
| 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 | Batchelor 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 Perfromance Division, Ship Research Institute |
| 2001.04-2005.03 | Center for Smart Control of Turbulence, National Maritime Research Institute |
| 2005.04-Present | Director, Advanced Maritime Transport Technology Department Leader, Super Eco-Ship Project Team Head of Smart Control of Turbulence Group, National Maritime Research Institute |
| 2005.06-Present | Board of Drectors, the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers |
| 2005.07-Present | Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine Science and Technology |
| 1981.09-1982.09 | Visiting Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Stanford University |
| 1971.07-1973.03 | Master thesis: Gas-Surface Interaction in Rarefied Gas Dynamics |
| @@Advisor : Prof. Yasuhiko Aihara | |
| 1976.04-1979.03 | Doctor thesis : Study on Cavitation Inception |
| @@Advisor : Prof. Hiroharu Kato | |
| 1979.04-1981.09 | Propeller cavitation |
| 1981.09-Present | CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) |
| 1995.04-Present | Skin friction reduction devices |
Kodama, Y., Takahashi, T., Makino, M., Hori, T.,@and Ueda, T.,
"Microbubbles-A Large Scale Model Experimentand a New Full Scale Experiment-",
5th Osaka Colloquium on Advanced Research on Ship Viscous Flow and Hull
Form Design by EFD and CFD Approaches, Osaka, March 2005.
Kodama, Y., Takahashi, T., Makino, M., Hori, T.,@and Ueda, T.,
"Practical application of microbubbles to ships--- Large scale model
experiments and a new full scale experiment ----",
6th International Symposium on Smart Control of Turbulence, Tokyo, March
2005.
Kodama, Y., Takahashi, T., Hori, T., Makino, M., and Ueda, T.,
"Characteristics of Microbubble Drag Reduction on a 50m-long Flat Plate",
3rd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation,
Pisa, September 2004.
Kodama, Y., Takahashi, T., Makino, M., Ueda, T., and Hori, T.,
"Possibility of Net Energy Saving of Microbubbles as a Drag Reduction
Device for Ships",
APHydro 2004, 2nd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Marine Hydrodynamics, Busan,
June 2004.
Kodama, Y., Kitagawa, A. and Sugiyama, K.,
"On the skin friction reduction mechanism of microbubbles", 13th
EDRM, European Drag Reduction Meeting, Aussois, June, 2004.
Kodama, Y., Takahashi, T., Makino, M. and Ueda, T.,
"Conditions for Microbubbles as a Practical Drag Reduction Device
for Ships", ICMFf04, 5th International Conference on Multiphase Flow,
Yokohama, May, 2004.
Kodama, Y., Sugiyama, K., Kitagawa, A., Makino, M., and Takahashi, T.
"The Degree and the Mechanism of Skin Friction Reduction by Microbubbles",
Proceedings of TSFP-3, Third International Symposium on Turbulence and
Shear Flow Phenomena , Vol.3, pp.953-958 (2003).
Kodama, Y., Chen, B., and Kawamura, T.
"Issues on Numerical Simulation of Microbubbles",
Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Nonlinear and Free-Surface Flows (2003)
Kodama, Y.,
"On the Skin Friction Reduction Mechanisms of Microbubbles",
Proceedings of FEDSMf03, 4th ASME_JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference,
FEDSM2003-45643 (2003).
Kodama, Y.,
"Possibility of Microbubbles as a Skin Friction Reduction Device for
Ships",
JSME Fluids Engineering Newsletter NAGARE, January, 2003 (in Japanese).
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.365-378
Kodama, Y., Kakugawa, A., Takahashi, T., Nagaya, S., and Sugiyama, K.,
2002,
"Microbubbles: Drag Reduction Mechanism and Applicability to Ships",
to be published in the Proceedings of the 24th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics.
Kodama, Y., Kakugawa, A., Kato, H., Ikemoto, A., et al., 2002,
"A full-scale experiment on microbubbles for skin friction reduction
using "Seiun-Maru", Part 1: The preparatory study", Journal
of the Society of Naval Architects of Japan, Vol. 192, 1-13 (in Japanese)
Nagamatsu, T., Kodama, Y., Kato, H., Ikemoto, A., et al., 2002,
"A full-scale experiment on microbubbles for skin friction reduction using
"Seiun-Maru", Part 2: The full-scale experiment", Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Japan, Vol. 192, 14-27 (in Japanese)
Kodama, Y., 2002,
"Possibility and Tasks for Practical Application of Microbubbles",
Proceedings of the SNAMJ Symposium "Turbulence Research: Its Current
Status and Application" (in Japanese).
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.
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.
Generation of 2D, 3D, and Surface Grids Using the Implicit Geometrical Method",
AIAA 33rd Aerospace Sciences Meetings, AIAA 95-0218, 1995.01
