Affiliated Research Unit

Division of Global Security and Energy Transition
Renewable Energy System (Wind/Wave Energy)

Iida
Laboratory
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Project Associate Professor

Makoto IIDA
Research Area

Wind power tech, Wave power tech, Fluid engineering,
Weather information utilisation tech, DX Basictechnology for Renewable energy (sensoring, analyticaltechnology, data platform development)

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What is interesting about wind turbines as astudy or discipline? When I talk to children, theysometimes ask me questions like that. What I
find interesting about wind power is that as aSocial Sciencerenewable energy system it is earth friendly andimportant for creating a sustainable socialsystem, but perhaps it is also about creating asystem that works in harmony with nature. In
the natural environment, we strive for harmony

Laboratory forInterdiciplinary Activities

with the wind environment, the ecosystem andthe people who live there, and this is where
new research and development andconnections are born. The flow around windturbines is full of fluid engineering environments

Cooperative Laboratories

The main research and development activities are as follows(1) Development of optimal wind power generation systems based on numerical fluid
dynamics.
(2) Research and development of wind power intelligent maintenance and digital twintechnology.
(3) Research and development of environmentally symbiotic wind power generation
system technology.
(4) Research and development of small wind turbine technology(5) Offshore wind power generation system research and development(6) Development of nature-symbiotic wave power generation systems(7) Research and development of social application creation in advanced domain
meteorological reanalysis

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The laboratory aims to solve various scientific and social problems and develop practicalwind and wave power generation systems and other renewable energies based on theelucidation of physical phenomena using large-scale numerical simulation technology andlarge-scale data analysis technology (e.g. machine learning technology).

Environment and Energy

Renewable energy systems are sustainable energy systems that operate in a naturalenvironment. Considering the future energy system of our resource-poor country, it is avery important issue to develop and establish renewable energy systems that use naturalenergy, which is renewable energy, to achieve carbon neutrality. However, there are many
challenges to developing optimal energy systems in natural environments, and operating
in a natural environment means that it is important to understand the complexity,uncertainty and diversity of nature and how to reflect this in design and operation.
In particular, the natural wind and waves that provide the energy source for wind andwave power generation are influenced by atmospheric conditions and topographicalfeatures such as cyclones and typhoons. This influence produces flow phenomena with acomplex spectrum, and there are issues such as failure problems that result from this. Inaddition, social acceptance issues such as noise and bird collision problems areincreasing as wind power is introduced on a large scale. In addition, research anddevelopment of large-scale offshore wind power systems has been carried out in recentyears.

that humans have been involved with, from theflow that people feel, to bicycles, cars, trains,bullet trains, etc., and it is also connected tovarious academic fields such as mechanicalSocial Cooperation
Research Departments

engineering, electrical engineering, civilengineering, environmental studies,meteorology, sociology, economics,international politics, etc. It requires a lot ofchallenges and initiatives, but we hope that thisCorporate SponsoredResearch Programs

will be the food for the Earth in 100 years. We
carry out research and development with the
1 Computational flow simulation around the windturbine

2 Natural symbiotic blow-hole wave power
generation system

aim of making the world a better place 100years from now.

Research Organization

iida@eco.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp

3 Wind power SMART MAINTENANCE technology
research and development

4 Wave power generation systems throughco-creation with local companies.

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