MoorDyn: increase number of attachment points possible for bodies/anchors/points#3034
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These parameters are used both in the code and in the registry for sizing arrays.
Some FAST.Farm simulations were running into issues with too many lines attached to anchors or bodies.
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@andrew-platt thanks for putting this together. There is a call of Point%nAttached <10 in MoorDyn_Point.f90 that should be changed.
It might also be good to add a check of il against MD_MaxFailLines to avoid array overrun in this loop:
openfast/modules/moordyn/src/MoorDyn.f90
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Thanks Andy! I didn't realize that something like MD_MaxBdAtch could be available within subroutines like Body_AddPoint without extra parameters being passed in. This will be great. |
- Body_AddRod - Body_AddPoint - Rod_AddLine - Check nLinesToDetach <= MD_MaxFailLines
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Feature or improvement description
Using MoorDyn was artificially limited to 30 attachments to bodies, which was an issue for very large shared mooring FAST.Farm simulations. This PR parameterizes these limits in the registry so that it is easy to change later (this PR also bumps up the limits for now).
Related issue, if one exists
#3022
Impacted areas of the software
Very large MoorDyn models with many interconnects only.
Additional supporting information
This is not the ideal way to deal with this. A better solution is to set the limits on these arrays while reading in the model. However the memory cost with doing it this way is not large compared to the complexity the code could end up with.
Test results, if applicable
No test results should change.