Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd.

Mizuho Research & Technologies (MHRT) is a core company of the Mizuho Financial Group and drives nonfinancial businesses forward. We help clients solve their policy and business challenges through a combination of specialized consulting and IT expertise. The Science Solutions Division at MHRT provides science and technology consulting services, including technical surveys, CAE, and the development of simulators, which contribute to solving customers’ engineering issues.

Areas of Expertise

• Fluid dynamics
  • Exhaust gas treatment for the automotive sector
  • Air conditioning flow
  • Flow in microchannel
• Thermodynamics
  • Material heating control
  • Infrared heat transfer
  • Thermal design of microdevices
• Electrochemistry
  • Electroplating
  • Fuel cells
  • Lithium-ion secondary batteries
  • Water electrolysis
• Structural mechanics
  • Elastoplastic deformation analysis
  • Contact analysis with hyperelastic materials
• Geochemistry
  • Geological disposal
• Other
  • Surrogate model construction
  • Acceleration of calculations
  • Optimization of design parameters

Mizuho Research & Technologies provides comprehensive services related to the COMSOL Multiphysics^® software, such as consulting for implementation, contract analysis, and model development.

Consultant Contributions

• Akira Shinozaki, "COMSOL Multiphysics Consulting Services", COMSOL Conference 2023 Tokyo
• Akira Shinozaki, "Manufacturing DX Using Plating Analysis and Surrogate Models", COMSOL Conference 2023 Tokyo (Poster)
• Koichi Masaki, Kazuya Osakabe, Akira Shinozaki, Yuhei Miyamoto, Kobayashi Ichizo, Morihiro Mihara, "Coupled Analysis for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste", COMSOL Conference 2019 Tokyo (Poster)
• Naoki Miyagawa, Akira Shinozaki, "Prediction of Simulation Results by Deep Learning via Livelink for MATLAB", COMSOL Conference 2019 Tokyo (Poster)