8.2. The Offshore Add-on

The Offshore Add-on exposes the family of OCEAN commands that are offered in Mechanical APDL. In this way the hydrodynamic loads on submerged beam and pipe elements – resulting from the motion of the structure through the fluid, or from the fluid motion around the structure due to current or waves – can be included in Static Structural, Transient Structural, Modal and Harmonic Response analyses.