OrcaFlex 11.3 cracked release

When it comes to dynamic analysis software, no other package comes close to the power, performance and capability of Orcaflex.

Proven time and time again in a myriad of applications, Orcaflex can transform the way you undertake analysis and design, giving you the speed, accuracy and ease of use that will make the whole process more simple and straightforward than ever before.

So whether you’re concerned with research, analysis or engineering, whether your work involves oil & gas, wet renewables, oceanographic, seismic, defence or aquaculture, with Orcaflex, you’ll have the most powerful, flexible and responsive software at your command. And a uniquely wide range of benefits that will make a real difference to your business right from day one.

Tried and tested around the world for:

• riser systems
• transport, installation and decommissioning
• moorings and global performance
• pipelay and pipelines
• renewables
• towed systems
• numerous other applications, including aquaculture, cable-stayed structures, floating bridges, defence, marine renewables, factory cable routing and earthquake loading

A first class approach

We prove it meets your needs – We’ll provide a demo and example model so you can test and evaluate software capability before you buy.

User Friendly – We provide a variety of pre & post processing options, best in class user interface and visualisation of the working simulation so you can check errors as you go.

An integrated software package renowned for its breadth of technical capability

Competitively priced to help you get the best value from your investment – purchase, leasing and discount options with robust maintenance, upgrades and support contracts.

Best in class service and support – we encourage you to check our support during your evaluation process.

Quality Assured

OrcaFlex is developed using a robust quality assurance, testing and validation process, giving our customers the confidence to manage risk, reduce inefficiencies, validate and improve their designs.

LINES

• Fully coupled bending, torsion and axial stiffness
• Bend Stiffener / Tapered Stress Joint model generation
• Pre-bend can be modelled (e.g. spool pieces) now with visualisation tool
• Centrifugal and Coriolis internal flow effects included
• Slug flow and free flooding options for line contents
• Tabular contents modelling & expansion tables
• Multiple coatings and linings can be defined
• Equivalent pipe setup tool
• Bending stiffness, drag and added mass can be non-isotropic
• Axial, bending and torsional stiffness can be nonlinear
• 3D hysteresis model available for bending, axial and torsional effects
• Rayleigh damping with or without geometric stiffness
• Line CofG may be displaced from geometric centre
• Line lengths and end orientations can be automatically calculated based on end positions, e.g. for truss structure modelling
• Clumped line attachments, drag chains or flex joints
• Non-isotropic Coulomb friction with seabed & elastic solids
• Line Clashing for external clash modelling between lines
• Line Contact for pipe-in-pipe, piggybacks, J-tube pulls, bend stiffeners, sliding connections, etc., allowing smooth modelling of large relative axial motion including friction
• Line feeding for pay out and haul in of nodes
• Hydrodynamic, aerodynamic and user-defined applied loads
• Wake Interference (Huse, Blevins,user specified)
• Partially submerged lines (eg, floating hoses) handled robustly
• Line drag and lift coeffs can vary with Re or seabed proximity
• Added mass as a function of submergence or height above seabed
• Water entry / exit slam loads (per DNV H103, RP-C205)
• Compressibility specified by bulk modulus
• Choice of finite element or analytic catenary representation

VESSELS

• Imposed vessel displacements:
  • first order displacement RAOs
  • prescribed and / or harmonic motion
  • time history motion files
  • externally calculated
• Loads for calculated vessel motions:
  • first order load RAOs
  • applied loads (thrusters, ice, etc.)
  • 2nd order (low freq.) difference QTFs: full and Newman
  • 2nd order (high freq.) sum QTFs
  • wave drift damping
  • added mass and damping with convolution
  • 6DoF ‘other’ linear and quadratic damping
  • manoeuvring, current and wind loads
  • drag from attached Morison elements
  • loads from attached lines (coupled analysis)
• Multi-body hydrodynamic coupling between floaters
• Sea state RAOs (vessel wave shielding, wave jetting, etc)
• Air gap reporting
• Inertia compensation to avoid double-counting for large superstructures e.g. floating wind turbine

BUOYS

• Full 3D and 6D modelling of buoys
• Lumped option with overall properties
• SPAR option for co-axial cylinders, each with own properties
• Fluid loads calculated based on the instantaneous wetted surface
• Added mass as a function of submergence
• Water entry / exit slam loads (per DNV H103, RP-C205)
• Wings for lifting surfaces
• User-defined imposed loads
• Compressibility specified by bulk modulus
• Coulomb friction with seabed and elastic solids

SHAPES

• Used for modelling boundary surfaces
• Shapes with friction for line & buoy contact
• Plane, cuboid, cylinder (solid/hollow), & bellmouth options
• Trapped water option for moonpool modelling
• Drawing option for visualisation purposes

WINCHES

• Winches with several length or tension control options

LINKS

• Links (springs) with linear or nonlinear stiffness & damping

CONSTRAINTS

• Allow individual degrees of freedom for other objects to be constrained
• Imposed motion via time history or externally calculated

TURBINES

• Dedicated horizontal-axis turbine object
• Aerodynamic loading via Blade Element Momentum (BEM) model
• Unsteady aerodynamics models: González and Minnema Pierce
• Flexible blades capturing aeroelastic coupling effects
• Blade pre-bend can be modelled
• Individual blade pitch control
• Prandtl tip and hub loss models
• Pitt and Peters skewed wake model
• Øye dynamic inflow model
• Blade pitch control via external function
• Generator control options (constant / externally calculated)
• Choice of tower influence models
• Rayleigh damping on blades
• Direct interface to standard controller codes (e.g. Bladedstyle DLLs)

SEA

• User-defined water density, kinematic viscosity, temperature
• User-defined horizontal and vertical density variation
• Temperature can be constant or vary with depth
• Kinematic viscosity can be constant or vary with temperature

SEABED

• Horizontal, sloping, 2D or 3D seabed surface (smooth or linear)
• Choice of soil models:
  • linear elastic
  • nonlinear hysteretic (trenching, suction & re-penetration)
  • P-y models (API RP 2A soft clay & sand & user-defined) for vertical and near-vertical line penetration
• Non-isotropic Coulomb friction in both statics & dynamics

WIND

• User-defined air density
• Wind velocity can be constant, NPD, API or ESDU spectra
• Wind can be a user defined spectrum or user defined
  components, and can also be a time history file of speed
  and direction
• Vertical variation factor specified as a profile
• Full field wind (varies with both space & time)

WAVES

• Regular: Airy, Stokes’ 5th, Dean Stream Function, Cnoidal
• Irregular: ISSC, JONSWAP, Ochi-Hubble, Torsethaugen, Gaussian swell, user-defined, Time History
• Multiple wave trains for combination sea states
• Fluid stretching (Wheeler, kinematic or extrapolation)
• Irregular waves have directional wave spreading option
• Preview and selection of irregular wave profile
• Wave kinematics choice (with individual specification for 3D & 6D buoys and lines):
  • Exact (all nodes/buoys, every time step)
  • Grid interpolation at instantaneous object positions
  • Calculation at object static positions only
• Various wave spectrum discretisation methods:
  • equal-energy (user-defined bounds & interval) – the default
  • equal spacing (arithmetic progression)
  • geometric progression

CURRENT

• 3D, non-linear
• Both magnitude and direction can be time varying
• Horizontal variation factor on magnitude

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI)

• Fully interactive native user interface
• Separate fully interactive user interface for OrcaWave
  diffraction solver
• Visualisation as wire frame and/or shaded graphics
• Shaded has perspective, lighting, hidden line, etc.
• Moving camera option to track large-scale object motion
• Add text labels at any point in 3D space or attach to objects
• Powerful dockable Model Browser to:
  • organise and manage complex models
  • group objects in logical collections
  • copy / paste objects or groups within or between files
  • show / hide, move and locate objects or groups
  • compare object data
• Compare files with built-in or user-specified compare tools

GUI DATA INPUT

• Readable, structured and self-documenting text files
• Binary files with strong version compatibility
• Drag-and-drop model import from other OrcaFlex files
• Auto import for OrcaWave, AQWA and WAMIT hydrodynamic data
• Generic text file import for other diffraction data
• Graphical RAO realism checks
• Generic line properties through built-in properties wizard
• Wizard for (hysteretic) non-linear moment-curvature data
• Variable Data for non-constant data (drag vs. Re, etc.)

• External functions admit user-defined calculations
• Time history data import for:
  • vessel motions
  • wave elevation
  • wind speed & direction
• SI, US or user-defined units
• Full and comprehensive context sensitive help
• Additional dedicated UI for building pipelay roller supports

GUI RESULTS

• Multiple simultaneous 3D views, results graphs & tables
• Workspace facility to manage windows
• Replay wizard to animate multiple simulations
• AVI file export of animations
• Results displayed at run time and/or simulation replay
• Results storage optimised to minimise file size
• User-defined results can be created if not available as a
  standard result
• Optional embedded Python in OrcaFlex installation, for use with external functions, post-calculation actions, user-defined results, etc.
• GUI output can be:
  • graphical (time histories, range and X-Y graphs)
  • values (in Excel spreadsheet format)
  • statistical analysis (incl. extreme statistics)
• GUI graphs and 3D views can be copy / pasted
• Vessel spectral response reported at any point
• Vessel disturbed sea state and air gap reported at any
  point

• OrcaFlex comes with both 32- and 64-bit executables
• Integral parallel processing for multi-core / processor hardware
• OrcaFlex Excel spreadsheets for:
  • pre-processing for parametric variations of input data (either binary or text files)
  • post-processing to extract results from many output files
• Fully multi-threaded, unattended, batch processing for:
  • data files (binary or text) for static and dynamic analysis
  • batch script files
  • fatigue analysis
  • OrcaFlex post-processing spreadsheet
  • post-processing with Python or command script
• Batch processes above in correct order in case of dependencies
• Low level programmatic interface, targeting C, C++ or Delphi (allows integration with 3rd party applications)
• High-level programmatic interface, targeting Matlab or Python
• Automated execution of SHEAR7 and VIVA from OrcaFlex

• Conversion of storm scatter tables to regular wave scatter tables
• Automation for model building, including:
  • wave search facility
  • Line Type and Plasticity Wizards
  • Line Setup Wizard
• Automation for results, including:
  • vessel response reports
  • fatigue analysis
  • extreme value statistics
• Distributed OrcaFlex optimises use of spare processor time:
  • only of benefit in a multi-licence environment
  • server program co-ordinates and allocates jobs to clients
  • clients can be set to accept or reject jobs
  • client jobs run at low priority (min. impact on other tasks)
  • client jobs can be aborted and server will re-allocate
• Orcina Licence Monitor allows monitoring of OrcaFlex use

• Fatigue calculations are all multi-threaded
• Regular, rainflow & spectral (frequency domain and response RAOs) fatigue analysis options
• 5 fatigue damage calculation options:
  • homogeneous pipe (S-N curves)
  • stress factors for different cross-section layers (S-N curves)
  • mooring (T-N curves)
  • SHEAR7 (damage results collated & presented in OrcaFlex)
  • user-defined externally calculated stress (via external functions)
• S-N and T-N curves can be tabulated or set parametrically

• S-N curves have option of 4 mean stress models
• Analysis at multiple circumference points on ID and OD
• Analysis at multiple line positions, each with different:
  • stress concentration factors
  • thickness factors
  • S-N curves (or T-N curves for moorings)
• Damage results as tables and / or graphs for overall damage or damage from individual cases
• Histogram collation and individual histogram results also available

OVERVIEW

• Uses the leading methods for the analysis of VIV
• All methods are coupled, applying VIV loads to the line
• Generalised to 3D behaviour (not just 2D)
• Highly efficient as all VIV models use same FE model
• Tested and fully documented SHEAR7 and VIVA interfaces
• Quality-assured implementation of time domain models
• Consistent results comparison from different VIV models

SHEAR7 & VIVA INTERFACES

• Export input data to run SHEAR7 / VIVA off-line from OrcaFlex
• Call either directly from OrcaFlex with either a user-specified or OrcaFlex-derived mode shape file
• Automatically selects transverse modes for mode shape file
• OrcaFlex statics couples with SHEAR7 / VIVA enhanced drag
• Results (incl. fatigue) presented in OrcaFlex; for SHEAR7, optionally aggregate fatigue damage via the OrcaFlex fatigue form

WAKE OSCILLATOR MODELS

• Milan or Iwan and Blevins wake oscillator models
• Model VIV suppression by turning off for selected line sections
• In-line drag enhancement included

VORTEX TRACKING MODELS

• Two approaches which model the physics of VIV
• Both in-line and transverse VIV effects included
• Boundary layer theory for stagnation and separation points
• Inviscid Navier-Stokes equation used outside the boundary layer
• Much less computationally demanding than full CFD

• Finite element with 6 DoF at each node
• Calculates loading and response for wet bodies due to
  surface water waves
• Utilises potential flow theory, outputs include:
  • load RAOs (choice of Haskind or diffraction methods)
  • displacement RAOs
  • added mass and damping matrices
  • Newman QTFs (choice of pressure integration or control
    surface methods)
  • full QTFs (sum and/or difference frequencies, direct or
    indirect methods)
  • sea state RAOs
• Can include dipole panels for thin walled structural elements with fluid on both sides e.g. strakes or heave plates
• Can include Morison elements

• Single or multibody analysis
• Bodies can be rigidly connected e.g. for modelling the separate hulls of a semisub or catamaran
• Choice of direct or iterative linear solvers
• Support for multiple mesh file formats (WAMIT.gdf,
  Nemoh.dat, Aqwa.dat, Sesam.fem, Hydrostar.hst,
  Gmsh.msh)
• Mesh view and validation tool allows easy checking of
  mesh geometry
• Intermediate results to enable first-order calculations to be
  reused in related analyses for processing efficiency
• Seamless transfer of data to OrcaFlex
• Batch processing
• Automation via OrcFxAPI

• Finite element with 6 DoF at each node
• Constraints to fix or impose individual DoFs
• Connect mid-Line nodes to other objects
• Optional 3 DoF line element for optimal performance
• Element formulation is extremely robust and accurate
• Element is proven and widely applicable
• Fully coupled tension, bending and torsion
• Full 3D model building and analysis
• Non-linear large displacement analysis
• Variety of dynamic solution methods:
  • Nonlinear time domain implicit (constant or variable Δt)
  • Nonlinear time domain explicit
  • Linear frequency domain (1st & 2nd order)
• FFT reconstruction of wave field from wave elevation time history
• Fluid forces based on Morison and cross-flow assumptions

• 3 optimisations for wave kinematics calculations
• Extremely quick and robust static analysis
• Dynamics ramped-up (to eliminate starting transients)
• Robust line compression and snatch load modelling
• Line and system modal analysis (shapes and loads)
• Contact, clashing and clearance analysis
• Linear & non-linear elastic contact stiffness for seabed, elastic solids, line contact and supports
• Vessel manoeuvres (forward speed and turn rate)
• Coupled and uncoupled vessel / line analysis
• Surface piercing fully modelled
• Setup Wizard to set line length for target end conditions
• Pressure effects on line EI can be separate for statics & dynamics
• Code checks (API RP 2RD, API RP 1111, DNV OS F101, DNV OS F201 and PD 8010)