Hydrodynamic Analysis of Marine Structures-Marine Renewable Energies Lab (HAMS-MREL)
HAMS-MREL is Boundary integral Element Method (BIEM) based solver for performing the hydrodynamic analysis of multiple body system, considering interactions between them. The solver is based on Linear Potential Flow theory, and can be used for preliminary analysis of floating (diffraction and radiation) and fixed structures (diffraction), all within a computationally efficient parallelized framework. This builds on the work on the HAMS solver, that was developed for single body fluid structure interaction problems. The zip file contains the executable for the solver, along with python script for pre- and post processing. Instructions for running the solver are also added in a word file. The current version is v1.1.
HAMS-MREL, a new open source multiple body solver for marine renewable energies: Model description, application and validation