COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE CODES
Experience with state-of-the-art software for Design and Engineering
WAMIT
- A 3D linear radiation-diffraction BEM codes (boundary element method)
FAST
- Operational and extreme load analysis
- Blade and tower fatigue
- Transient events: wind gusts, turbine shutdown, etc.
- Power production and control
ORCAFLEX
- Loadings on offshore structure in extreme conditions
- Time series of mooring line tension
- Wave drift loads
REFRESCO
- A viscous-flow CFD code that solves multiphase unsteady incompressible flows using the RANS equations.
IN-HOUSE NUMERICAL TOOLS
Decision tools for the deep offshore
FIL - FUTURE IN LOGICS
- Strategic support tool for scenarios building, to support future foresight action plan based on the morphological analysis
OSSES TOOL
- Optimisation tool to select and size energy sources to satisfy a predefined load profile
UMBILICAL CONFIGURATION DESIGN TOOL
- To identify suitable configuration of floaters to maximize lifetime, prevent overdesign and reduce costs
AQUACULTURE GROWTH MODEL
- Predict species growth based on water temperature and body weight for production costs and profit calculations
MARINE BIOFOULING DATABASE
- Information on the organisms’ occurrence and key biofouling parameters to the MRE sector
OASIS SITE SELECTION TOOL
- Applicable to Offshore Wind, Wave & Tidal Energy and Offshore Aquaculture
LOGISTICS TOOL
- Validated database with over 16’000 vessels
- Can accommodate project specific requirements
RESOURCE TO GRID MODEL
- Hydrodynamic interactions
- Power production
- Loads, motions, velocities, accelerations
TECHNO-ECONOMIC MODEL
- Estimating the Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE)
SOFTWARE O&M
- Corrective, calendar and condition based maintenance
- Safety (environmental and maritime), logistics and forecast
Open Source Tools
- Open-source tools developed, maintained and documented by WavEC
- GitHub link: https://github.com/WavEC-Offshore-Renewables