Integration of FPM results into design environment PANDORA and application on helicopter floatation studies

Kurzfassung

After an emergency landing on water, the evacuation can be strongly impacted by the sea conditions. Heavy and irregular seas can cause helicopters to become very unstable or to capsize. Therefore, the analysis of the buoyancy of rotorcraft cannot be limited to calm or regular sea conditions. Investigations must incorporate realistic scenarios like those found in the North Sea, which can be described using the JONSWAP spectrum. This work contributes with the integration of Python-based routines into the structural tool PANDORA to generate FE models capable to reproduce realistic sea conditions in meshless numerical simulations using the Finite Pointset Method (FPM).