이를 이용하여 FPSO(Floating Production Storage and Offloading systems), 반잠수식 시추선, TLP(Tension leg platform), 선박, 신재생에너지 시스템, 방파제 등을 시뮬레이션 할 수 있습니다. AQWA는 1970년대 중반 영국(WSAtkins)에서 개발한 AQWA-Float을 기반으로 1980년대 해양구조물이 심해로 이동함에 따라 새로운 유체역학적 평가를 목적으로 AQWA-Suite이 개발 되었습니다. 2005년 Ansys가 이를 인수하면서 현재도 꾸준히 개발되고 있는 소프트웨어 입니다.

• Ideal fluid, irrotational, incompressible
• Small wave elevation
• Viscous forces are not taken into account

• Body Boundary condition
• Linearized free surface condition
• Sea bed boundary condition
• Radiation condition
• Solution for diffracted and radiated wave potentials uses a pulsating source distribution (zero speed solution with forward speed corrections)
• Theory applies to finite depth and diffraction problem is solved in frequency domain
• Shallow water solution is available
• Both 1st Order and 2nd Order wave forces are calculated

Ansys AQWA는 기존 해석 환경인 AGS(AQWA Graphic Supervisor) 뿐만 아니라 Ansys Workbench 환경에서도 작업이 가능합니다

• Joint를 활용하면 서로 다른 구조간의 다양한 관절 조건을 구현할 수 있습니다

• Mooring Line을 활용하면 부유체의 계류 효과 뿐만 아니라 계류 시스템 설계를 할 수 있습니다

• Hydrostatic Results
• Multiple structures including hydrodynamic interaction
• Hydrodynamic coefficients(added mass and damping)
• RAOs
• Drift coefficients (Near / far field full QTF matrix)
• Shear Force / Bending Moment Splitting forces
• Pressure distribution for transfer to structural model

• Computes static equilibrium position for multiple environmental and mooring configurations
• Preliminary mooring design
• Calculates static / dynamic stability

• Significant motions at low frequency/wave frequency in frequency domain
• Permits rapid analysis using linearized parameters of mooring systems
• Graphs for response spectra / RAOs & other parameters
• Wave spreading and 2D spectra

• Time-history analysis of multiple structures with irregular waves
• Can use full QTF matrix for shallow water conditions
• Import of wave height time history
• Input of forces via user-defined .dll
• Output of motions and forces
• Graphical and animation results

• Time-history analysis of multiple structures with irregular waves
• Can use full QTF matrix for shallow water conditions
• Import of wave height time history
• Input of forces via user-defined .dll
• Output of motions and forces
• Graphical and animation results

• Additional cost item for more rigorous simulation of mooring line behaviour
• Provides full coupled vessel/mooring line analyses

• AQWA specific functions add-in for Excel for data and results retrieval, processing and report generation

• Airy Waves
• Stokes 2nd-Order Waves

• Pierson-Moskowitz (PM) spectrum
• JONSWAP spectrum
• Gaussian
• User-defined spectrum
• Cross Swell

• Uniform wind
• Ochi and Shin wind spectrum
• API wind spectrum
• NPD wind spectrum
• User-defined wind spectrum

• Uniform velocity current
• Velocity profiled current