Lecture 01

14.5 Release

Introduction to Hydrodynamic Analysis with

ANSYS Aqwa

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 Welcome

Welcome to the ANSYS Hydrodynamic Analysis introductory training

course!
This training course covers the basics of using ANSYS Aqwa for performing
hydrodynamic analyses.
It is intended for all new or occasional ANSYS Aqwa users, regardless of the
CAD software used.

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 Agenda (Day 1)
Morning Lecture 01 – Introduction
Lecture 02 – Basics and Theory
Workshop 2.1
Afternoon Workshop 2.2
Workshop 2.3

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 Agenda (Day 2)
Morning Lecture 03 – Aqwa suite (Aqwa-Line)
Workshop 3.1
Lecture 03 – Aqwa suite (Aqwa-Librium)
Workshop 3.2
Lecture 03 – Aqwa suite (Aqwa-Fer)
Workshop 3.3
Afternoon Lecture 03 – Aqwa suite (Aqwa-Drift)
Workshop 3.4
Lecture 03 – Aqwa suite (Aqwa-Naut)
Workshop 3.5

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 Agenda (Day 3)
Morning Lecture 04 – Articulations and Multibody
Workshop 4.1
Lecture 05 – Articulations and Multibody (continued)
Workshop 4.2
Afternoon Lecture 05 – Load Mapping
Workshop 5.0

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 Lecture 1: Contents
A. About ANSYS Inc.
B. ANSYS EKM
C. ANSYS Customer Portal
D. ANSYS Workbench Overview
E. ANSYS Mechanical Overview
F. Starting Mechanical
G. Working With Units
H. License Preferences

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 A. About ANSYS, Inc.

More than 60 offices worldwide plus an extensive network of distributors

Over 2,200 direct employees of ANSYS and its subsidiaries worldwide
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Visit www.ansys.com for more information

Corporate Headquarters
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 A. Breadth of Technologies

Fluid Mechanics: To Multiphase

From Single-Phase Flows Combustion

Structural Mechanics: To High-Speed Impact

From Linear Statics

Electromagnetics: To High-Frequency
From Low-Frequency Field Analysis
Windings

Systems: To Multi-Domain
From Data Sharing System Analysis

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 B. Breadth of Technologies
ANSYS EKM - Engineering Knowledge Manager
ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager (EKM) is a multi-user collaborative
solution that is aimed at meeting the Simulation Process and Data Management
challenges

Use Case: EKM capabilities

Knowledge Retention and Reuse
Simulation focused search and retrieval

Automated CAE reports

Remote CAE visualization

Index and store CAE files automatically

Find and reuse past CAE files efficiently

Trace and audit simulation decisions

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 . . . Breadth of Technologies
ANSYS EKM - Engineering Knowledge Manager
ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager (EKM) is a multi-user collaborative
solution that is aimed at meeting the Simulation Process and Data Management
challenges

Use Case: Collaboration EKM capabilities

Workflow Modeling

Process Tracking

Hosted Applications
Build and run CAE workflows

Allow multi site, multi user access

Deploy templates for what if studies

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 C. The ANSYS Customer Portal

support.ansys.com
Contains over 50,000 support assets powered by a modern web user
interface and powerful search engine.

Solutions
Classroom Training Product Assets Latest Release
Conference Proceedings
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Class3 Reports
Service Requests Tools
Documentation
Previous Release(s)
Training & Tutorials

Knowledge
Support Products Downloads
Resources

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 . . . About search
The ANSYS Customer Portal’s search
is powered by dedicated Google®
hardware.

Mesh = Meshed = Meshing

Export = Exported = Exporting
XXXXX = YYYYY = ZZZZZ
Example:
You want a meshing tutorial for ANSYS Meshing and your search
has results for other products that are not of interest to you; by
selecting the product facet “ANSYS Meshing” you can narrow
down your results further.

Search Facets
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 . . . Support / downloads / training
Submit and review service requests
If you cannot find the answer to your question within the ANSYS Customer Portal then
you can submit a service request. A member of ANSYS technical support will then get
back to you with advice or a solution.

Download the latest software and updates

Download ISO images if you wish to create a DVD which is recommend for installations
on multiple computers and allows you to keep an archive of the installation for later re-
use.
Individual downloads can also be selected if you have a limited speed internet
connection.

Download classroom and video training material

Training and tutorial material are available for both a broad range of ANSYS products
and user’s experience. Search the hundreds of courses available and improve your
knowledge of ANSYS software.

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 D. ANSYS Workbench
ANSYS Workbench is a project-management tool. It can be considered as
the top-level interface linking all our software tools.

Workbench handles the passing of data between ANSYS Geometry / Mesh /

Solver / Postprocessing tools.

This greatly helps project management. You do not need worry about the
individual files on disk (geometry, mesh etc). Graphically, you can see at-a-
glance how a project has been built.

Because Workbench can manage

the individual applications AND
pass data between them, it is easy
to automatically perform design
studies (parametric analyses) for
design optimisation.
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 . . . Workbench Overview
The options visible in the “Analysis Systems” are ready-
left-hand column show made stencils that include all
all the products the individual systems
(systems) you have (applications) needed for
licenses for. common analyses (for example
Geometry + Mesh + Solver +
TIP: If this list appears Post-Processor)
empty, you have a
problem with your
licensing! “Component Systems” are the
individual building-blocks for
each stage of the analysis

“Design Exploration”
provides tools for
optimising designs and
understanding the
parametric response.

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 . . . Basic Workflow
Dragging an Analysis System onto
the project desktop lays out a
workflow, comprising all the steps
needed for a typical analysis.

Workflow is from top to bottom.

As each stage is complete, the icon
at the right-hand side changes

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 . . . Basic Workflow
By dropping applications and/or systems into various locations in the
schematic, an overall analysis project is defined.
“Connectors” indicate the level of collaboration between systems.
In the example below a hydrodynamic time response system is dragged and
dropped onto a hydrodynamic diffraction system at the Model cell (A3).
Before completing the operation notice there are a number of optional “drop
targets” that will provide various types of linkage between systems (continued
next page).

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 . . . Basic Workflow
By completing the operation from the previous page, notice the linkage here
is only at the Model level and above.
In this case there would be no hydrodynamic database coupling.

Notice too each system block is given an alphabetic designation (A, B, C,

etc.).

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 . . . Basic Workflow
By dropping the hydrodynamic time response system at the Solution level
we obtain a system that is coupled to the hydrodynamic diffraction solution.

Notice, the candidate

“drop target” indicates
data will be shared
from fields A2 to A3,
and transferred from
A5.

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 . . . Alternative Workflow

However, an analysis could equally well be prepared by selecting

the individual Component Systems that are needed for this
analysis, and then linking them together with connectors.

TIP: There are two ways to create the connectors between the
systems:
1) Use the mouse to draw a line (eg A2 to B2, B3 to C2 etc)
2) Or, simply drop the new system on the cell of the upstream one,
and the link will be generated automatically.

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 . . . Cell States
As each stage in the model-build is completed, the state
of the cell changes.

Icon Meaning
Up to Date
Refresh required. Upstream data has changed
Status after creating
Geometry in A2, not yet Update required. Local data has changed
opened mesh in A3 Unfulfilled. Upstream data does not exist
Attention Required
Solving
Update Failed
Update Interrupted
Changes pending (was up-to-date, but upstream
Status after model has data has changed)
converged, waiting for
post-processing
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 . . . Sharing Data between Different Solvers
Workbench can be used to transfer data between solvers. In this 1-way FSI (fluid-
structure-interaction) example, we transfer the loads from a Fluent CFD simulation
over to a Mechanical system to perform a stress analysis

The square connector shows The round connector shows

that the geometry created that the CFD results are
in cell A2 (CFD model) is being transferred as a Setup
being shared with cell B3 (input) condition to be used
(FEA model). for FEA stress analysis.
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 . . . File Location on Disk
Should you need to identify the individual files on your disk for each stage of the
project, these can be found by enabling View > Files. The resulting table will cross-
reference the directory and filename with the project cells.

Filename Directory

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 . . . File Management
Workbench creates a project file and a series of subdirectories to manage all
associated files.
Users should allow Workbench to manage the content of these directories. Please
do NOT manually modify the content or structure of the project directories.
When a project is saved a project file is created (.wbpj), using the user specified
file name (e.g. Cylinder.wbpj).
A project directory will be created using the project name. In the above example
the directory would be Cylinder_files.
A number of subdirectories will be created in the project directory (explained
next).

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 . . . Workbench File Management
Directory Structure:
– dpn: this is the design point directory. This essentially is the state of all parameters for a
particular analysis. In the case of a single analysis there will be only one “dp0” directory.
– AQW-n: contains subdirectories for each application in the analysis. In the example below
the “AQW” directory will contain the database, and other associated files from the Aqwa
HD application. “AQW-1” directory will contain the results of the time response analysis.
The “Analysis” subdirectory would contain the files associated with that particular
solution.
– user_files: contains external user defined files that may be associated with a project. The
user is free to use this directory as desired.

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 . . . Use of Archive / Restore
The workbench project comprises many files and directories. If you need to
either archive the project, or bundle it to send to us for a Technical Support
query, use the ‘Archive’ tool. This generates a single zipfile of the entire project.

When archiving, you can

choose whether to include
the computed result files or
not (omitting these may
make it small enough to send
by email)

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 . . . Working With Parameters [1]
Most Workbench applications will
let you specify key quantities as a
parameter (rather than a
constant). This will be covered
later.
In this CFD example:
• When creating the geometry in
DesignModeler, the pipe length is
set to be an input parameter.
• When reviewing the results, the
pressure drop is set as an output
parameter

We could just have easily set up a

Mechanical analysis, looking at
different loading conditions and
reporting the maximum stresses.

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 . . . Working With Parameters [2]
2] Click here to
compute all the
designs

1] Create new row

in table with each
design (in this case
pipe length) 3] The desired result
(set up in CFD_Post) is
• Clicking on ‘Parameter Set’ lets us vary these parameters. reported here
• Four different geometric designs are being tested.
• The whole process is automated. Workbench will recursively:
i. Create the geometry, based on the parameters in the table
ii. Take this into the mesher, then the solver, then the postprocessor
• The user just needs to sit back and wait, and the matrix of experiments (each requiring
several different applications to be launched in turn) is computed automatically.

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 Summary
ANSYS Workbench is a convenient way of managing your simulation projects.

Workbench is used to launch the individual software components, and used to

transfer data between them.

It is easy to see at-a-glace how a model has been built, and determine which files
were used for a particular simulation (pairing geometry files to solver runs)

Workbench also makes it straightforward to perform parametric analyses (without

the user needing to manually launch each application in turn), and makes it easy to
simulate multi-physics scenarios like fluid-structure interaction.

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 C. ANSYS Hydrodynamic Analysis Overview

What is Aqwa?
• Aqwa is a modularised, fully integrated hydrodynamics analysis
suite based around 3-D diffraction/radiation methods.
• ANSYS Workbench implementation provides hydrodynamic
diffraction and time domain simulations.
History of Aqwa
• Developed since 1971 (by WS Atkins)
• Owned and developed by Century Dynamics since 2001
• Century Dynamics acquired by ANSYS February 2005
• Now being integrated into the ANSYS Workbench system

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 . . . ANSYS Hydrodynamic Analysis Overview

ANSYS Aqwa Capabilities

• Diffraction/Radiation including Morison elements
• Frequency domain analysis
• Stability including mooring lines
• Time domain with irregular waves
• Time domain with non-linear survival waves
• Coupled cable dynamics
• Multiple hydrodynamic interaction and articulations (up to 50
structures)
• Transfer of motions and pressures to ASAS & ANSYS FE models

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 . . . ANSYS Hydrodynamic Analysis Overview

ANSYS Aqwa Applications

• Determination of RAOs
• Wave bending moments
• Splitting Force calculations for Semi-Submersibles
• Design and analysis of mooring systems
• Time history of motions
• Determination of Air Gaps
• Calculation of Shielding Effects of ships and barriers
• Multiple Body Interactions
• Coupled mooring line-structure interaction
• Cable Dynamics with intermediate buoys
• TLP tether analysis

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