Orcina news

Here you will find the latest news on the development of OrcaFlex. Alongside our LinkedIn page, it is a valuable source of information about what we are up to!

OrcaWave – working with meshes

We have recently uploaded a new technical note to our website titled OrcaWave – working with meshes. The document focuses on the use of panel meshes in our diffraction analysis tool OrcaWave. We describe the link between mesh refinement and results quality. Furthermore we discuss how features such as symmetry conditions, calculation method and meshing […]

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OrcaFlex 11.3f released

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.3f. Version 11.3f fixes a number of bugs, and makes further performance improvements for processing of multiple jobs on machines with large numbers of processors. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation: OrcaFlex OrcaWave We recommend that all users of 11.3 upgrade […]

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OrcaFlex 11.3e released

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.3e. Version 11.3e fixes a number of bugs, and addresses a performance issue for batch processing of multiple jobs on machines with large numbers of processors. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation: OrcaFlex OrcaWave We recommend that all users of 11.3 […]

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OrcaFlex 11.3d released

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.3d. Version 11.3d fixes a number of bugs, including a significant bug affecting the contents density results variable when using the line slug flow contents method. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation: OrcaFlex OrcaWave We recommend that all users of 11.3 […]

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Updates to wind turbine resources

We have recently made some updates to the wind turbine resources available on our website. Firstly, one of our most popular OrcaFlex modelling examples – K03 15MW semi-sub FOWT – has been revised to reflect the latest IEA 15MW reference wind turbine (RWT) design: version 1.1.3. The rotor, nacelle and tower updates have been made […]

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OrcaFlex 11.3c released

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.3c. Version 11.3c fixes a number of bugs, including a significant bug affecting certain results variables when using the new tabular contents feature. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation: OrcaFlex OrcaWave We recommend that all users of 11.3 upgrade to 11.3c. […]

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Distributed OrcaFlex 7.0a released

We have just released Distributed OrcaFlex 7.0a which you can download from the Distributed OrcaFlex page. This is a major update containing the following changes: DOF can now handle simulation restarts. Restart parents are identified in the DOF Viewer when submitting a batch of jobs and the DOF Server will ensure that the dependency chain […]

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OrcaFlex 11.3b released

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.3b. Version 11.3b introduces some minor new functionality and fixes a number of bugs. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation: OrcaFlex OrcaWave We recommend that all users of 11.3 upgrade to 11.3b. To upgrade to OrcaFlex 11.3b from any previous version, […]

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OrcaFlex 11.3 UGM videos

We have now finished our series of OrcaFlex 11.3 user group meetings! These were once again held online, and while this meant we missed being able to see you all in-person, it did provide an opportunity for many people to participate who may otherwise have not been able to get to an in-person event. During […]

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OrcaFlex 11.3 user group meetings

Following the release of OrcaFlex 11.3, we can now announce our OrcaFlex 11.3 user group meetings. Once again, we are running these as virtual webinars. These webinars will cover all the new features introduced in version 11.3 of OrcaFlex and OrcaWave. We will split the content into two separate webinars, one for OrcaFlex and one […]

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