Changelog for release 2.17
Solver
- More precision in formulations for impermeable nets improving results
- Change wind density 1.21 to 1.27
- Possibility to place RAO to springs,
- Adjustments to drift coefficients acc to current according to Faltinsen pp 146
- Possibility to have dynamic wind to several membrane elements.
- Possibility to have larger horizontal wave velocity under wave crest than prescribed by linear wave theory.
- More refined in and out of water handling for classic nets.
- Formulation for slamming to beams slightly improved
- Possibility for surface suction applicable for membranes laid out on water surface .
- Possibility for wave reduction to beams with hydrodynamic loads
- Some format changes to parameters written to output files
- Code optimalization for vectorization to achieve higher analysis velocity
- Some code reformulations to increase analysis timer for irregular waves.
- Some small adjustments to rollers
AquaEdit
- Fixed Springs not copying their properties from the library
- Materials for basic beam wizards has been updated with PE100 according to NS6415, and Plastic has been renamed to PE80
- Automatic comments on environment loads have been removed (#1331)
- Fixes for when right clicking fails
- Right clicking will no longer trigger drawing tools
- Added PE100 to materials and renamed “Plastic” to PE80 (#1342)
- Longitudinal drag coefficient has been moved to Elements Loads -> Advanced for beams, and to Drag Loads on trusses (#1341)
- Deactivated decorators no longer show highlighted in the 3D view (#1343)
- Logic for setting drift and reduction of drift on hydrodynamic beams has been cleaned up (#1319)
- Added error messages to .TPE import when failing to load the library
- Duplicated membrane x elements now stay in the correct component (#1349)
- Terrain is now applied to max_out runs as well (#1347)
- Added audible error beep when trying to execute invalid drawing operations (#1317)
- Snapping nodes to terrain no longer applies a 0.5m offset (#1185)
- AquaCross now allows docking and locking windows (#1315)
- Select element(s) intent now selects the same way as the pointer intent (#1363)
- Added warning if a solver is not available (#1323)
- Component contacts are now deleted if one of the contact components is deleted (#1283)
- RAO table has been tidied (#1360 / #1352)
- Some name changes
- Drift “RAO” now disables unused columns (#1353)
AquaView
- Fixed error in visualizing winches (#1350)
- Fixed Tools -> Show component lengths not showing the correct length of components that include a winch (#1350)
- Changed format of membrane volume output (#1346)
- Number of decimals on values can now be set in settings (#1271)
- Datasets can be reorderered after loading multiple datasets (#1328)
- Improved detection of membrane elements, making them easier to select (#1313)
- Intel integrated graphics cards will no longer trigger exclusion from shader based surface