Mooring Design and Dynamics

MD&D is a toolbox for designing and testing single point oceanographic moorings.

MD&D is a MATLAB toolbox for designing and then testing single point oceanographic moorings influenced by currents and wind. The supplied database (which can be added to) will allow you to build a mooring and test it under typical current conditions, or force it by a time series of current profiles to generate a time series of mooring shapes and component positions. The program provides solutions for both sub-surface and surface moorings, and will even predict when a surface mooring becomes submerged. Flipping the solutoin up-side-down, it also simulates towed bodies, where a negatively buoyant (heavy) body is towed behind a moving ship (with a sinker of a riser). If the focing current profile varies in time (i.e. from an ADCP), then an animation (movie) or time (series) history of mooring component postitions and shapes is saved/accessible. Moorings can be saved and retrieved. The original code was written in 1999, with a few updates since then. Be patient, the code is old (1998) and delicate (not idoit proof). The Users Guide web page is the essential resource for how to use this program.

A publication about the program can be referenced if the simulations contribute to a successful deployment and oceanographc data.

See the Project Home page, the Download page, and the Users Guide at the project web site: http://web.uvic.ca/~rdewey/mooring/moordyn.php