Profile

Hiroshi Kagemoto, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Nationality: Japan (Born in 1954)
Hometown: Hiroshima-city, Hiroshima
Family: wife, two daughters and a male dog

プロフィール

影本浩 (Ph.D.)
東京大学 名誉教授
国籍: 日本 (1954年生まれ)
出身: 広島県広島市
家族: 妻、娘二人、愛犬


Education & Diploma

1972-1976 University of Tokyo, Graduate Engineer
1976-1978 Graduate School, University of Tokyo, Master of Science
1987/3 Ph.D (University of Tokyo)

学歴・学位

1972/3 私立修道高校 (広島市) 卒業
1972/4 -1976/3 東京大学 船舶工学科 工学士
1976/4 -1978/3 東京大学 大学院 工学系研究科 船舶工学専攻修士課程 工学修士
1987/3 工学博士 (東京大学)


Professional Experience

1978-1989 Technical Officer of the Ocean Engineering Division
Ship Research Institute, Ministry of Transport
(1983-1984) Visiting Scientist of the Department of Ocean Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
(1987-1988) Technical Officer of the Research and Development Bureau,
Science & Technology Agency
1989-1992 Research Associate, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,
School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
1992-1998 Associate Professor, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,
School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
(1996-1997) Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Ocean Engineering,
School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
1999-2014 Professor, Department of Environment Systems,
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
2014-2016 Project Professor, Department of Ocean Technology, Policy and Environment,
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
(2016.4) Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo
2016.4- 2024.3 Professor, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science

職歴

1978/4 – 1989/3 運輸省 船舶技術研究所 海洋開発工学部 研究官・主任研究官
(1983/8 – 1984/8) 米国マサチューセッツ工科大学 海洋工学専攻 客員研究員
(1987/3) 工学博士 (東京大学)
(1987/4 – 1988/7) 科学技術庁 研究開発局 専門職
1989/4 – 1992/9 東京大学 工学部 船舶海洋工学科 助手
1992/10 – 1999/3 東京大学 大学院 工学系研究科 船舶海洋工学専攻 助教授
(1996/3 – 1997/1) 米国 マサチューセッツ工科大学 海洋工学専攻 客員准教授
1999/4 – 2014/3 東京大学 大学院 新領域創成科学研究科 環境システム学専攻 教授
2014/4 – 2016/3 東京大学 大学院 新領域創成科学研究科 海洋技術環境学専攻 特任教授
(2016/4)東京大学 名誉教授
2016/4 – 2018/3 長崎総合科学大学 総合情報学部 教授
2018/4 – 2024/3 長崎総合科学大学 工学部 船舶工学コース 教授


Reasearch background

  • naval architecture
  • marine hydrodynamics
  • floating-body dynamics
  • biomechanics
  • environmental engineering

研究分野

  • 船舶工学
  • 海事流体力学
  • 浮体運動学
  • 生体力学
  • 環境工学

Ph.D. theses supervised

  1. Ting-Yao Zhu: On the estimation method of hydrodynamic forces acting on a very large floating structure, 1997.
  2. M. Murai: On the estimation method of the hydroelastic responses of a very large floating structure in waves, 1999.
  3. T. Kinoshita: CFD application to wave-induced floating-body dynamics, 1999.
  4. R. Miyake: On the motions and loads acting on a ship advancing in large waves, 2001.

International activities

  1. Collaboration with Professors Dick K.P. Yue and Michael S. Triantafyllou of the Department of Ocean Engineering, MIT, since 1983. 
  2. Collaboration with Professor Bernard Molin, Ecole Superieure d’Ingenieurs de Marseille in 2001. Published one paper in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  3. Executive Committee member of OMAE 1986 and OMAE 1997. (OMAE: International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering)
  4. Secretariat of MARIENV 1995. (MARIENV: International Conference on Technologies for Marine Environment Preservation)
  5. Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., March 1996 – January 1997. 
  6. International Organizing/Advisory Committee member of VLFS 1999. (VLFS: International Workshop on Very Large Floating Structures)
  7. Chairman of the Organizing Committee of VLFS 2003.
  8. Representative of Asia-Pacific Region in the Loads & Responses Committee, ITTC(International Towing Tank Conference), 2000-2002.
  9. Chairman of the Seakeeping Committee, ITTC, 2002-
  10. Chairman of the Steering Committee of World NAOE Forum 2013 & International Symposium on Marine Renewable Energy, 2013

Selected papers

  1. H.Kagemoto and Dick K.P.Yue
    Interactions among multiple three-dimensional bodies in water waves: an exact algebraic method,
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.166, 1986.
  2. H.Kagemoto
    Minimization of wave forces on an array of floating bodies – The inverse hydrodynamic interaction theory -,
    Applied Ocean Research, 14, 1992.
  3. H.Kagemoto and Dick K.P.Yue
    Hydrodynamic interaction analyses of very large floating structures,
    Journal of Marine Structures, Vol.6, Nos.2&3, 1993.
  4. H.Kagemoto and Dick K.P.Yue
    Hydroelastic analyses of a structure supported on a very large number of floating bodies,
    in Hydroelasticity in Marine Technology (eds. O. Faltinsen, et al.), 417-431, 1994.
  5. H.Kagemoto, M.Fujino and T.Zhu
    On the estimation method of hydrodynamic forces acting on a very large floating structure,
    Applied Ocean Research, Vol.19, No.1, 49-60,1997.
  6. H.Kagemoto, Dick.K.P.Yue and Michael Triantafyllou
    Optimization of a fish-like swimming body,
    50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics in the American Physical Society, 1997.
  7. H.Kagemoto
    Design of an artificial fish,
    Department of Ocean Engineering Technical Report, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1997.
  8. H.Kagemoto, M.Fujino and M.Murai
    Theoretical and experimental predictions of the hydroelastic response of a very large floating structure in waves,
    Applied Ocean Research, Vol.20, No.3, 135-144, 1998.
  9. T.Zhu, H.Kagemoto and M.Fujino
    On the estimation method of hydrodynamic forces acting on a very large floating structure(Part 2),
    Applied Ocean Research, Vol.21, No.2, 53-67, 1999.
  10. T.Kinoshita, H.Kagemoto and M.Fujino
    A CFD application to wave-induced floating-body dynamics,
    7th International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, 1999.
  11. M.Murai, H.Kagemoto and M.Fujino
    On the hydroelastic responses of a very large floating structure in waves,
    Journal of Marine Science and Technology, Vol.4, No.3, 1999.
  12. R.Miyake, T.Kinoshita, H.Kagemoto and T. Zhu
    Ship motions and loads in large waves
    Proc. 23rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, 2000.
  13. H.Kagemoto, M.J.Wolfgang, D.K.P.Yue and M.S.Triantafyllou
    Force and power estimation in fish-like locomotion using a vortex-lattice method,
    Trans. ASME, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol.122, No.2, June 2000.
  14. A. Kosugi, R. Ogata, H. Kagemoto, Y. Akutsu and T. Kinoshita
    A feasibility study on a floating wind farm off Japan coast
    Proc. the 12th International Offshore and Polar Engineering
    Conference, Vol.1, 499-504, 2002.
  15. H.Kagemoto, M.Murai, M.Saito, B.Molin and S.Malenica
    Experimental and theoretical analysis of the wave decay along a long array of vertical cylinders, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.456, 113-135, 2002.
  16. H.Kagemoto
    Drift force on a bottom-mounted slightly porous vertical cylinders fixed in regular waves,
    Journal of Marine Science and Technology, Vol.7, No.3, 128-136, 2003.
  17. H.Kagemoto, M.Murai and M.Kashiwagi
    Can a single floating body be expressed as the sum of two bodies ?
    Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Vol.68, 153-164, 2010
  18. H.Kagemoto
    Revisiting the complete wave transmission and reflection due to an array of 2-D surface-piercing truncated vertical plates fixed in regular incident waves
    Ocean Engineering, Vol.38, Issues 8-9, 976-982, 2011
  19. H.Kagemoto
    Why do fish have a ‘fish-like geometry’?,
    Journal of Fluids Engineering, 136(1), 011106-1-011106-7, 2014.
  20. H.Kagemoto, M.Murai and T.Fujii
    Second-order resonance among an array of two rows of vertical circular cylinders,
    Applied Ocean Research, 47, 192-198, 2014.
  21. H.Kagemoto
    Revisiting the complete wave transmission and reflection due to an array of 2-D surface-piercing truncated vertical plates fixed in regular incident waves (Part 2),
    Ocean Engineering, Vol.108, 173-180, 2015.
  22. C.Anagnostopoulou, H.Kagemoto, K.Sao and A.Mizuno
    Concept design and dynamic analyses of a floating vertical-axis wind turbine: case study of power supply to offshore Greek islands, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 2(1), 85-104, DOI: 10.1007/s40722-015-0034-2, 2015.
  23. H.Kagemoto
    Revisiting the complete wave transmission and reflection due to an array of 2-D surface-piercing truncated vertical plates fixed in regular incident waves (Part 3),
    Ocean Engineering, Vol.169, 292-299, 2018.
  24. H.Kagemoto
    Forecasting a water-surface wave train with artificial intelligence – A case study -,
    Ocean Engineering, Vol.207, 2020.
  25. H.Kagemoto
    Forecasting a water-surface wave train with artificial intelligence (Part 2), Can the occurrence of freak waves be predicted with AI? -,
    Ocean Engineering, Vol.252, 2022.
  26. H. Kagemoto
    Possible application of quantum computing in the field of ocean engineering: optimization of an offshore wind farm layout with the Ising model, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40722-024-00345-x, 2024.

Experience of Journal Referees

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Journal of Fluids Engineering
  • AIAA Journal
  • Acta Mechanica
  • Applied Ocean Research
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Journal of Marine Structures,
  • Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering
  • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  • Journal of Visualization,
  • Journal of Marine Science and Technology
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Frontiers of Engineering Mechanics Research
  • IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
  • Journal of Fluids and Structures

Editors

Deputy Editor of Journal of Marine Science and Technology


Honors

  • Visiting Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1996 – January 1997.
  • Best Paper Award of SNAJ (The Society of Naval Architects of Japan), May 1999.
  • Person of Merit, The Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers of Japan, May 2009.
  • Distinct Research Work presented at the annual meeting of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, 2010
  • Best Paper Award (with 3 other co-authors), The Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan, 2011

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