4/20/2021 OrcaFlex Help

Contents

Introduction
Introduction
What's new in this version Tutorial: Dynamic analysis
What was new in previous versions
Installing OrcaFlex
Running OrcaFlex
Parallel processing
We are now ready to run the simulation. If you are running the demonstration version of OrcaFlex
Distributed OrcaFlex then you cannot do this, but instead you can load the results of a pre-run simulation.
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Demonstration version Click the run dynamic simulation button . As the simulation progresses, the status bar reports
OrcaFlex examples current simulation time and expected (real) time to inish the analysis, and the 3D view shows the
Validation and QA motions of the system as the wave passes through.
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References and links Click the start replay button . An animated replay of the simulation is shown in the 3D view window.
Tutorial
Getting started
Use the view control keys and mouse as before to change the view. The default replay period is whole
Building a simple system simulation. This means that you see the simulation start from still water, the wave building and with it
Adding a line the motions of the system. Simulation time is shown in the status bar, top left. Negative time means the
Adjusting the view wave is still building up from still water to full amplitude. At the end of the simulation the replay begins
Static analysis again.
Dynamic analysis
Multiple views The replay consists of a series of frames at equal intervals of time. Just as you can zoom in and out in
Looking at results space for a closer view, so OrcaFlex lets you zoom in and out in time. Click on the edit replay
Getting output
Input data parameters button , edit interval to 0.5s and click OK. The animated replay is now much jerkier
User interface than before because fewer frames are being shown.
Automation
Theory Now click again on edit replay parameters, set replay period to latest wave and click on the continuous
Modelling, data and results box to deselect. The replay period shown is at the end of the simulation and has duration of a single
Modal analysis wave period. At the end of the wave period the replay pauses, then begins again.
Fatigue analysis
VIV analysis Now click on the replay step button to pause the replay. Clicking repeatedly on this button steps

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