Overview
Waveload-FD is our hydrodynamics software package for calculation of motions, pressures and loads on ships and offshore structures in the seaway. Accurate, reliable and efficient, it has been extensively tested and verified against other software and experimental data. Waveload-FD is a panel-method code based on the three-dimensional Green's function in the frequency domain.
Waveload-FD is a three dimensional, linear, rigid structural, frequency domain seakeeping analysis code. The motions themselves are the focus of many studies where they pose a limitation to design; the hydrodynamic loads may be used for structural assessment of ships and offshore structures.
Waveload can deal with multi-hulls, interacting mulitple bodies, and mooring forces, for example and makes special treatments for traditionally difficult cases such as low encounter frequency. The computation may be spread across a user-defined number of threads to optimise efficiency.
Please note, a subscription licence will be required to use the software download.