Marine & offshore
Simulation for marine, naval architecture and offshore engineering
Resistance and seakeeping for hulls, the free surface both depend on, propeller and thruster internals including where they cavitate, and the shallow-water problems harbours and estuaries pose. Free-surface work is the part of CFD most often left to specialists; here it is a case type.
Questions this answers
- What is the resistance of this hull through a speed range?
- How does the vessel respond in a seaway, and what are the motions?
- Does this propeller cavitate, and where on the blade?
- What does the free surface do around this structure?
- How does the flow behave through this harbour or estuary at depth?
The analysis types that do it
Each of these is a case type in the application, not a configuration you assemble. Every one runs in the free build — the free tier limits mesh size and cores, never which physics you may use.
And in the other modules
Structural, thermal and electromagnetics ship alongside fluids. Only the types that run today are listed.
Backends underneath
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Open-source solvers, selected and configured from the case type. You can still read every dictionary the application writes.
When it will not fit on your machine
Paid accounts can send meshing and solving to SHD Cloud and keep working locally. The estimate is shown before the run starts.
What this does not do
- No mooring or station-keeping models. A moored response study needs a tool that does line dynamics.
- Hydroelasticity is not coupled — hull loads and hull structure are separate runs.
- Classification-society approval is not claimed for any of it.
Naming a sector here says the physics suits the work. It is not a claim that anyone in it is a customer.