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Input Formats

Each of the following are input using ASCII files.

•Force RAOs

•Wind force coefficients

•Current force coefficients

•QTF coefficients

•QTF calibration coefficients

•Added mass coefficients

•Radiation damping coefficients

•Viscous damping coefficients

•Hydrodynamic coupling coefficients

All comprise of two types of lines, data lines and comment lines. The letter C (uppercase essential) in Column 1 identifies a comment line. Comment lines (which can be included at any point in the file) are completely ignored by Flexcom, and are intended to allow you to include comments for your own benefit or for other users. Any line that is not a comment line is a data line. You can input data in free format, as floating point numbers with or without exponent. Use an uppercase E when specifying an exponent. Either commas or blanks may separate a number of values on a particular data line; do not use TABs.

Regarding the input conventions in Flexcom:

•Direction and Heading Conventions describes the conventions used in the definition of current, wind and wave loading with respect to the local body axis system.