Hydrodynamic coefficients viewer and converter for Boundary Element Method solver formats.
Boundary Element Methods are extensively used to model hydrodynamic forces in offshore devices like ships, offshore wind platforms and wave energy converters. These solvers use device geometry mesh to get some hydrodynamics coefficients as radiation damping, added mass, wave diffraction force, and wave excitation force. All these data is saved in file formats incompatible between them. These may avoid to use the coefficients between programs.
BEMRosetta allows to load the hydrodynamic coefficients from a format saving it in another. In addition it allows to compare the results obtained between programs, the results between similar geometries and the same geometry with different discretization levels.
In addition, BEMRosetta allows to view and visually compare the meshes from different programs.
BEMRosetta runs on Windows and Linux, no install is necessary in Windows (see Install), and it includes a GUI and a command line version.
- BEM coefficients
- Load-View
- Wamit: .out, .3sc, 3fk, .1, .3, .4, .hst
- Nemoh: Nemoh.cal, Mesh/Hydrostatics*.dat, Mesh/KH*.dat, RadiationCoefficients.tec, ExcitationForce.tec, DiffractionForce.tec, FKForce.tec, IRF.tec
- FAST-Wamit: HydroDyn.dat, .1, .3, .hst
- SeaFEM-Nemoh: .flavia.inf, RadiationCoefficients.tec, ExcitationForce.tec, DiffractionForce.tec, FKForce.tec
- Ansys AQWA: .LIS, .AH1
- FOAMM: .mat
- Save
- Wamit: .1, .3, .hst, .4
- FAST-Wamit: HydroDyn.dat, .1, .3, .hst
- Other solvers that may use these files: Bladed, Orcaflex
- Load-View
- Mesh files
The goal is to have a good robustness in the handling of files
- Load the hydrodynamic coefficients for the same geometry from different software and compare the results
- _Damping for the same geometry got from different solvers
- Excitation force for the same geometry got from different solvers
- Load the hydrodynamic coefficients for the same geometry for different discretization levels and compare the results
- Damping for different offshore wind floating platforms
- Excitation force for different offshore wind floating platforms
Several meshes can be loaded in this basic viewer, allowing a visual comparison of geometries.
J. C. C. Portillo, J. C. C. Henriques, Y. Peña, M. J. Sanchez-Lara.
Some file parsing strategies taken from the BEMIO project.
Based on the U++ multiplatform library.
Copyright (c) 2019 Iñaki Zabala, Markel Peñalba.
BEMRosetta is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
BEMRosetta is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with BEMRosetta. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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