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Environmental Parameters |
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This section describes the parameters to mandatory provide the minimum environment specification.
Flexcom traditionally groups together four parameters required to provide the minimum environment specification, namely the analysis water depth, the density of seawater ρw, the gravitational constant g, and ν, the kinematic viscosity of seawater. Strictly speaking the gravitational constant is not an environmental parameter, but as it is a common parameter which affects the vast majority of all input data, it is grouped together with the ambient ocean parameters for convenience. Note also that the value of the kinematic viscosity is used only to determine the value of Reynolds number in the case where you have specified hydrodynamic coefficients as a function of Reynolds number. If you do not invoke this facility, the value of ν is immaterial and unused.
•*OCEAN is used to specify general parameters defining the ocean environment.
If you would like to see an example of how this keyword is used in practice, refer to any of the standard Flexcom Examples.