WAFO

  Main features

WAFO is a toolbox of Matlab routines for statistical analysis and simulation of random waves and random loads. WAFO is freely redistributable software, see WAFO licence, cf. the GNU General Public License (GPL) and contain tools for:[Max to min and period from Max to downcrossing pdf]

Fatigue Analysis

  • Fatigue life prediction for random loads
  • Theoretical density of rainflow cycles

Sea modelling

  • Simulation of linear and non-linear Gaussian waves
  • Estimation of seamodels (spectrums)
  • Joint wave height, wave steepness, wave period distributions

Statistics

  • Extreme value analysis
  • Kernel density estimation
  • Hidden markov models

For more information, see the page about WAFO.

News

2007

December 21
New Homepage released.
New release of WAFO are coming soon.....
 
October 5
New design of homepage.
October 4
New mexfiles for matlab 2007a on PC-platform
Matlab has changed the way mex-files work in Matlab2007a. The precompiled mex-files included in WAFO do only work for Matlab2006 and below. Thus the files has to be compiled again. The compiled mexfiles for matlab 2007a and PC-platform can be downloaded
May
New WAFO logo designed by Fredrik Hermansen FFI with assistance from Per A Brodtkorb and Jürg Wegener
April 26-27
Hands on course in WAFO, computational tools for wave
analysis.
April 25
Dissertation for WAFO co-worker Sofia Åberg, thesis: 'Applications of Rice's Formula in Oceanographic and Environmental Problems'.
January 1'st
Per A. Brodtkorb starts on Post-doc within SEAMOCS in Lund and will among other things work on updating WAFO.

2005

October 6
WAFO version 2.1.1 released.
August 16
WAFO was presented in the software session at the EVA 2005 meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden.
August 18
Cécile Mercadier, Toulouse, presents a toolbox that computes distribution of the maximum for one- and two-parameter Gaussian processes using WAFO-routine rind.m. The MAGP toolbox can be downloaded at http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~mercadier/MAGP/.
 

2004

 
November 29
Dissertation for WAFO co-worker Per A Brodtkorb, thesis: 'The Probability of Occurrence of Dangerous Wave Situations at Sea'.
May 28
Dissertation for WAFO co-worker A Baxevani, thesis: 'Modelling Sea Surface Dynamics Using Crossing Distributions'.
April 7
WAFO version 2.1.0 released:
  • Major changes concern Chapter 3 in the tutorial. Calls there are not valid anymore.
  • A new HTML based documentation is available, with for example cross references between calls of functions. This is found in the module wafodoc.
  • For PC Windows, the executable programs have been replaced by mex files (these have not been compiled for other systems).
 

For older news, see the news archive.