Chapter 3: Data Requirements and Preparation

This chapter describes the form in which data is expected by the program and is intended as a list of the data requirements and format for each type of analysis that may be performed when running AqwaWave.

The data required for running AqwaWave is split into three components:

  1. A data file providing information about the structural project, the constituent structural and Aqwa hydrodynamic files to be processed and data giving information about the load generation that is to be undertaken from the Aqwa model defined. This is the file submitted to AqwaWave and which references the following data.

  2. A data file containing the definition of the structural model to be loaded. For an Ansys Mechanical model, this can be created by running the ANSTOASAS command through a Commands (APDL) object in the Static Structural analysis. See Generating Structural FEM Data for Mechanical APDL for details.

  3. Aqwa model database files generated from a hydrodynamic diffraction analysis (Aqwa-Line)