Takashi Yabe
Encyclopedia
is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
(Tokyo Tech.).
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 magnesium
-based society using "solar-pumped laser
", 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 Royal Institution of Great Britain 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 TIME magazine chose him as an “Innovator” of “Heroes of the Environment 2009" in September 2009.
Tokyo Institute of Technology
The Tokyo Institute of Technology is a public research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology. Tokyo Tech enrolled 4,850 undergaraduates and 5006 graduate students for 2009-2010...
(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 magnesium
Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element with the symbol Mg, atomic number 12, and common oxidation number +2. It is an alkaline earth metal and the eighth most abundant element in the Earth's crust and ninth in the known universe as a whole...
-based society using "solar-pumped laser
Solar-pumped laser
A solar-pumped laser, is a laser that shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as emitting a beam consisting of coherent electromagnetic radiation which can reach high power, but which uses solar radiation for pumping the lasing medium...
", 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 Royal Institution of Great Britain 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 TIME magazine chose him as an “Innovator” of “Heroes of the Environment 2009" in September 2009.
Further reading
- Takashi Yabe, Tatsuya Yamaji, The Magnesium Civilization : An Altanative New Source of Energy to Oil, Pan Stanford Publishing, December 2010, (ISBN 978-981-4303-65-1)