is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering,

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(Tokyo Tech.).

Career

Takashi Yabe graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1973 and immediately became a research associate. After getting doctor degree of engineering, he moved to Osaka University as an associate professor and then returned to Tokyo Tech. as a professor in 1995. His specialties are theoretical and experimental studies of interactions between laser light and substances. He has established a venture business called Electra to realize the

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-based society using "

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", and currently serves as its CEO. Another specialty of Dr. Yabe is computational fluid dynamics. He has developed the " CIP Method" that can realistically replicate phenomena that are difficult to simulate such as collisions of objects and waves at the liquid–gas interface. Because of this work, he was invited to give a bicentenary memorial lecture at the

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in 1999 in addition to the keynote lectures in many international conferences and awarded by several societies. He is currently General Council of APACM, Executive Council of IACM and Honorary Fellow of International Society for Computational Fluid Dynamics. The

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chose him as an "Innovator" of "Heroes of the Environment 2009" in September 2009.

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The Magnesium Civilization
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yabe, Takashi 1950 births Living people Japanese engineers Japanese inventors Tokyo Institute of Technology faculty Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni Osaka University faculty

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