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Ocean Space Development Engineering Lab
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The lab investigates the performance of ships and offshore structures through the interaction between waves and floating bodies.
AboutAbout the lab
Wave–floating body interaction as the core of its research
The Ocean Space Development Engineering Lab studies the propulsion and motion performance of ships in waves, as well as the performance of very large floating offshore structures intended for the use of ocean space and ocean energy.
The lab examines the propulsion and motion performance of ships advancing through waves using theory, numerical computation, towing tank experiments, and analysis of onboard data.
Students from other universities and other faculties are welcome. The lab lists mathematics, mechanics, fluid mechanics, and mechanics of materials as the undergraduate-level knowledge required.
Lab visits are available both through officially organized graduate school opportunities and as informal visits, which are also welcome.
Key terms
- Very large floating offshore structure
- A large structure floating on the sea, built for the use of ocean space and ocean energy.
- Strongly nonlinear flow
- Flow that occurs in large-amplitude waves and cannot be described by a simple proportional relationship.
- Fluid–structure interaction
- A phenomenon in which the flow of a fluid such as water and the deformation of a structure affect each other.
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With the interaction between water waves and floating bodies as its core, the Ocean Space Development Engineering Lab studies the propulsion and motion performance of ships in waves and the performance of very large floating offshore structures. Its research introduction page lists topics such as developing a simulator for ship performance in actual seas, analyzing onboard monitoring data from ships, and developing highly efficient wave energy farms.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Ocean Space Development Engineering Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, doctoral students (including working professionals), master's students (including those in the special English-language course), undergraduate students, and professors emeriti.As of 2026
- ProfessorMunehiko Minoura
- Associate ProfessorTakahito Iida
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Container ship Reecon Whale on Black Sea near Constanța Romania” HopsonRoad / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Performance of ships and floating bodies in waves: “LL25 MiTina turning into Norra Grundsund harbor” W.carter / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ship and Offshore Structural Engineering Lab): “Agucadoura WindFloat Prototype” Untrakdrover / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ship and Ocean Fluid Engineering Lab): “Convair Negative Image - Tow basin ship model in tank )” San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives / Public domain (cropped)
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