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Reduction methods in Coupled fluid-Structure Analysis
Dear all, I'm trying to calculate wet modes of a very large ship structure. In order to consider the influence of water in ship natural frequencies, I've modeled a portion of water around the hull, and I've tried to carry out a fluid-structure analysis. Since the ship FE model is very large... -
Subcases are really indipendent of each other in SOL400?
Hi everybody I'm trying to run a simple BEAM and BUSH model of about 200 DOF with 22000 subcases. The analysis is a simple non-linear static analysis that I'm trying to solve by SOL400. Even if in SOL 400 subcases are indipendent of each other as quoted in "Nastran Quick reference guide", I...
