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*OPTIONS |
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To specify some miscellaneous options regarding the operation of the Summary Wave Scatter feature
Refer to Summary Wave Scatter for further information on this feature.
A number of data lines specifying options in the following format:
OVERWRITE DATA=[Overwrite Data Option]
POWER RATING=[Maximum Power Rating]
Overwrite Data Option can be YES or NO (the default). If specified, Maximum Power Rating must be a number.
Input: |
Description |
Overwrite Data: |
This option allows you to automatically overwrite results databases which may have already been created by Summary Postprocessing in the normal fashion (they are not overwritten by default). |
Power Rating: |
The upper limit to cap any average power values before they are written to the Summary Database File. This entry is optional and if unspecified no capping is applied. |
(a)When Summary Postprocessing is performed after a simulation has completed, Flexcom produces a text-based Summary Output File for visual inspection, but more importantly it also creates a Summary Database File, which is effectively a binary version of the same data, for subsequent access by the Summary Collation facility. The Summary Wave Scatter feature also allows you to generate Summary Database Files, but for seastate combinations for which you have not actually performed a numerical simulation. It is possible (although somewhat unlikely) that you would have originally performed numerical simulations and summary postprocessing for some seastates which are not marked as reference seastates in the wave scatter diagram. In such circumstances there is a potential conflict between data files which have been created in standard Flexcom fashion following analysis and postprocessing, and data files generated by the Summary Wave Scatter feature (which estimates simulation results based on an extrapolation technique). By default all 'genuine' data is retained, but you do have the option of overwriting existing summary database files with extrapolated ones.