Hiromichi AKIMOTO
Professor, Researcher, and Inventor in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Hiromichi AKIMOTO (秋元博路) is a Japanese researcher and educator working in Osaka University, Japan.
Affiliation:
Specially Appointed Professor, Osaka University Center for the Advancement of Research and Education Exchange Networks in Asia (CAREN), Japan (from Feb 2015 to present)
Guest Professor, Innovative Composite Center (ICC), Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Ishikawa, Japan (from Dec 2014 to present)
Representative Partner, Albatross Technology LLC, Tokyo, Japan (from Mar 2012 to present)
Research topics are
Ocean renewable energy solutions (offshore wind, marine current and wave)
- Floating offshore wind turbine (movie)
- Marine current turbine (movie)
- Rotational wave energy converter (movie1, movie2)
Numerical simulation of ship hydrodynamics (motion in oblique wave)
High-speed marine transportation (Wing In Surface Effect Ship or WIG, ekranoplan)
- Canard type WISES, radio controlled model, "Kaien-3", (figure eight flight)
- Previous model, "Kaien-2", circular flight, on-board camera"