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Potential Flow Solvers
Autowing	Autowing is the powerful and efficient software for doing aerodynamic and hydrodynamic design of the WIG Crafts and hydrofoils. Autowing enables you to perform numerical calculations of the steady and unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of the WIG Crafts considering the essential details of motion near the ground.
FSWave	Fswave is a computer program which calculates the non-linear free surface characteristics of a free surface disturbed by an arbitrary hull configuration. The hull configuration can be either completely submerged or surface piercing. Multiple hulls may also be modeled. The program is written as a "plug in" module, which couples with the Vsaero panel code.
Michlet	Michlet calculates the total (viscous + wave) resistance and wave elevations of thin monohulls and multihulls.
Newpan	Newpan is a 3D panel method code, suitable for low-speed aerodynamic and hydrodynamic problems. The Newpan free surface module provides a capability to predict the unsteady, fully nonlinear response of a free surface to the unsteady motion of a floating or submerged body.
Odyssee	A non linear wave resistance prediction code. Allows to predict numerically the wave resistance of displacement ships, manoeuvering on calm water, by solving the entire fluid flow equations.
Pfp	Program for Potential Flow Calculation. The PFP code allows to calculate the potential flow characteristics around a submerged body. In this way pressure distribution, stream lines and the velocity field can be calculated over and out side the body.
Rapid	The computer program RAPID calculates the steady inviscid flow around a ship hull, the wave pattern and the wave resistance. It solves the exact, fully nonlinear potential flow problem by an iterative procedure, based on a raised-panel method. The geometry of the hull is represented by a panel distribution, prepared by directly digitizing a body plan or generated from a hull surface representation in a CAD system.
SesWave	SesWave is a wave resistance code to perform free-surface potential flow calculations based on Rankine-sources panel method for SES (surface effect ship). The code is linear and can cope with twin-hull and air-cushion catamaran configurations.
Shallo	Shallo is a fully non-linear codeship hydrodynamics code developed by HSVA. The program has been successfully applied to a very large number of ship design and analysis projects performed at the model basin. Presently the code covers: unlimited, deep water condition - shallow water - canal flows -monohull ships - submarines - catamarans, SWATH (incl. twin strut), trimarans -surface effect ships.
ShipFlow	A special purpose software for investigating the hydrodynamic properties of ships and other marine vessel. Capabilities are: Wave resistance, viscous resistance, induced resistance, lift, nominal wake, propeller effects, sinkage & trim, waves, pressure distribution, velocity vectors, streamlines. Shipflow is used by a number of shipyards, towing tanks and consultants all over the world for analyzing and optimizing new designs.
ShipWorks	Shipworks is addon for SolidWorks for investigating the hydrodynamic properties of hull. The parameterization of the hull shape variation is available two ways; water line sections and transversal sections. Preprocessing, including panel or grid generation is automatic as well as execution of computation to find the wave pattern and wave resistance.
Slaw	SLAW is a potential flow panel code for ship flow prediction which has been developed at SAIC. Among its attributes and capabilities are: Uses a potential flow panel method to compute the steady, inviscid, irrotational flow around a body moving with steady speed in the presence of a free surface. A Dawson-type or rankine singularity free surface model is employed in which source panels are distributed over a local portion of the free surface and a linear free surface boundary condition is applied at each panel. The steady sinkage and trim of the ship can be modeled automatically by balancing the ship's hydrostatics with the computed heave force and pitch moment and iterating the SLAW calculation for the sunk and trimmed hull.
Splash	SPLASH is a fully 3-D nonlinear free-surface potential flow panel code for aero/hydrodynamic design and anlysis of marine vehicles. Applications range from steady and unsteady (seakeeping) performance predictions for America's Cup and other grand prix race sailing yachts, to prediction of unsteady hydrodynamic loadings for structural analysis of oil tankers.
Tdynlin	The computer program Tdynlin calculates the steady inviscid flow around a ship hull, the wave pattern and the wave resistance. It solves the linearised potential flow problem by a Dawson type panel method. Tdynlin has been developed by the ETSIN towing Tank CFD group in the period 1992 - 2001, and has been routinely applied in practical ship hull design since.
VsAero	VSAERO couples integral methods for potential and boundary layer flows for low runtimes. Flowfield properties are computed for off-body velocity surveys and on/off-body streamlines. The ability to calculate internal and external flows, non-uniform inflow and body rotation, makes VSAERO applicable to fluid flow problems in aerospace, automotive and marine engineering. Special purpose modules FSWAVE expands VSAERO's simulation capabilities to include nonlinear hydrodynamic wave effects on ships.
Warp	Warp is a non linear potential flow calculation code to perform free-surface potential flow calculations based on Rankine-sources panel method. The code accounts for the non-linearities related to the free-surface boundary condition and to the variation of the hull wetted surface. Automatic gridding of the ship hull and of the free-surface is provided. There is also BIWARP for wave making characteristics of fast twin hull vehicles.
Wavis	Wavis is an integrated system for flow analysis to evaluate hull form by using numerical computations. Wavis can calculate wave resistance and wave patterns by using potential panel method. It uses Rankine source distributions with linear & nonlinear free surface conditions. Raised panel approach is adopted for the treatment of nonlinear free surface condition. The effects of trim & sinkage can be included. Viscous flow calculation can be done with Wavis to predict viscous resistance and nominal wake distribution at propeller plane. The cell-centered finite-volume method is utilized to predict turbulent flow around a hull form.
Viscous Flow Solvers
2-3DynaFS	2DYNAFS and 3DYNAFS are free surface hydrodynamic modeling codes using the highly efficient Boundary Element Method (BEM). User specified inputs for 2DYNAFS or 3DYNAFS include: Initial boundaries geometry, fluid constants, ambient pressure or driving pressure variations with time, gas equation of state for bubbles and their internal initial pressure, gravitational constant to compute the motion and deformation of all moving boundaries and the resulting flow and pressure fields. Typical applications include: explotions near bodies and ocean free surface. Waves generated by by a body motion. Breaking Waves on a Sloped Beach. Bubbled deformat,ons in non-uniform flow fields...
Cfdship-Iowa	General-purpose CFD simulation software developed at The University of Iowa. The program solves the incompressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and continuity equations with a variety of turbulence models.
Comet	Comet is a general purpose code, which has been successfully applied to a very wide range of different problems and has been extensivly applied to problems related to naval hydrodinamics. Software features like free-surface models, moving and sliding grids, different turbulence models, local grid refinement, etc. make our package very suitable for study and optimisation of ship resistance, propeller efficiency, hydrofoil lift and drag characteristics, loadings on offshore constructions, sloshing in thanks, or slamming.
Fans	FANS is an on-going effort to integrate state-of-the-art computational techniques, a Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) code with nonlinear free-surface capability, second-order closure turbulence modeling, and integrated propeller flow modeling - into a system for predicting near-field ship flows. The combination of these methods provides a new level of realism for modeling the flow field around a ship, including thick turbulent boundary layers, separated flow, vortex generation and evolution, free surface effects, and propeller/hull coupling.
Fluvis	Fluvis is a viscous flow calculation code which based on thin boundary layer approximation, according to the theory of Cebeci. This code enables calculation of viscous flow around a fully immerged body. The outputs are the flow field (velocity and pressure) over the hull and the form factors of the thin boundary layer.
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Neptun	A RANS solver from HSVA.
Parnassos	Simulation of the steady, viscous flow along the stern of a ship in cruising conditions is achieved by use of the computer code Parnassos. The method is based on the Navier-Stokes equations, supplemented by a turbulence model. Parnassos does not model the free-surface waves and calculates the steady incompressible viscous flow around a ship hull, at model scale or full scale. It provides detailed information on the velocity and pressure field around the hull, the wake field in the propeller plane, the possible occurrence of flow separation, and the viscous resistance.
Subflo 2	The Subflo 2 code has application to the preliminary design and analysis of submersible configurations in unsteady motions. It can also be used for low-speed unsteady aerodynamic analysis of configurations at high angles of attack. Useful for submarine hydrodynamic characteristics, conceptual and preliminary design and analysis, geometry-input simulations, steady and unsteady 6-DOF maneuvers, high flow incidence angles and large rotation rates, nonlinear vortex-induced forces and moments, component forces and moments, flow field details.
Tdyn Naval	Tdyn is an environment for fluid dynamics simulation, based on the numerical solution of the incompressible and slightly compressible Navier-Stokes equations using a stabilised finite element method. Tdyn includes different modules that allow to solve Heat Transfer in both solid and fluids , Turbulence, Advection of Speciesand Free Surface problems using the same stabilised scheme mentioned above.
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