Flexcom > User Interface > Flexcom Wave

The Project View acts as a container for all of the components in your project, and provides a good overview of your project workspace. It has a tree-like structure and is divided into separate sub-folders for convenience.

•Model contains Devices and Device Parts.

▪Devices are the wave energy converters in your project workspace. You can assemble a particular device using any of the sub-components which you have created.

▪Device Parts are sub-components of the wave energy converter, such as floating bodies, power take-offs, mooring lines etc. You can define as many sub-components as you like, even if you do not intend to use all of them immediately. So you can build up a library for both current and future projects.

•Environments stores a range of different environmental conditions which the wave energy converter may be designed to operate in. Flexcom Wave interfaces directly with ExceedenceFinance, a third-party software package which contains databases of metocean data for various geographical locations around the world. Provided you have a license for this software, you can quickly download wave resource information for your chosen location, and automatically Import from Exceedence into Flexcom Wave.

•Simulations allows you to perform numerical simulations and examine analysis results. In the Simulation Component you nominate a wave energy converter and choose the environmental conditions to which it is subjected. You may then proceed to Running Simulations. Following successful completion of the numerical simulations, you may examine important Simulation Results. Crucially you can also Export to Exceedence, sending the power matrix computed by Flexcom's detailed engineering model back into ExceedenceFinance, and perform financial appraisals based on realistic power data for a given wave energy converter and ambient environment.