Citing

If you are using Capytaine, please cite both following references:

Ancellin and Dias (2019), Capytaine: a Python-based linear potential flow solver, Journal of Open Source Software, 4(36), 1341, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01341

Babarit and Delhommeau (2015), Theoretical and numerical aspects of the open source BEM solver NEMOH, Proceedings of the 11th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC2015),

or in bibtex form:

@article{ancellin_capytaine_2019,
  author  = {Matthieu Ancellin and Fr{\'{e}}d{\'{e}}ric Dias},
  title   = {Capytaine: a {Python-based} linear potential flow solver},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
  year    = 2019,
  month   = {apr},
  volume  = {4},
  number  = {36},
  pages   = {1341},
  doi     = {10.21105/joss.01341},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.21105%2Fjoss.01341},
}

@inproceedings{babarit_theoretical_2015,
  author    = {Babarit, Aur{\'e}lien and Delhommeau, G{\'e}rard},
  title     = {Theoretical and numerical aspects of the open source {BEM} solver {NEMOH}},
  year      = {2015},
  booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 11th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC2015)}},
  address   = {Nantes, France}
}

Forward speed

If you are using the forward speed feature of Capytaine, please cite the following paper:

Donatini et al., Implementation of forward speed effects on an open source seakeeping solver. In 6th MASHCON: International Conference on Ship Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water, 2022

@inproceedings{donatini2022implementation,
    title={Implementation of forward speed effects on an open source seakeeping solver},
    author={Donatini, Luca and Herdayanditya, Ivandito and Verao Fernandez, Gael and Pribadi, Ajie Brama Krishna and Lataire, Evert and Delefortrie, Guillaume},
    booktitle={6th MASHCON: International Conference on Ship Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water},
    pages={20--33},
    year={2022},
    organization={Knowledge Centre for Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water}
}

Alternative Green functions

If you use alternative Green function implementations included in Capytaine, please cite the following papers:

HAMS’ finite depth Green function

Yingyi Liu, Shigeo Yoshida, Changhong Hu, Makoto Sueyoshi, Liang Sun, Junliang Gao, Peiwen Cong, Guanghua He. A reliable open-source package for performance evaluation of floating renewable energy systems in coastal and offshore regions. Energy Conversion and Management, 174 (2018): 516-536.

Yingyi Liu HAMS: A Frequency-Domain Preprocessor for Wave-Structure Interactions—Theory, Development, and Application. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, (2019) 7: 81.

@article{liu2018reliable,
   title={A reliable open-source package for performance evaluation of floating renewable energy systems in coastal and offshore regions},
   author={Liu, Yingyi and Yoshida, Shigeo and Hu, Changhong and Sueyoshi, Makoto and Sun, Liang and Gao, Junliang and Cong, Peiwen and He, Guanghua},
   journal={Energy conversion and Management},
   volume={174},
   pages={516--536},
   year={2018},
   publisher={Elsevier}
 }

@article{liu2019hams,
   title={HAMS: A frequency-domain preprocessor for wave-structure interactions—Theory, development, and application},
   author={Liu, Yingyi},
   journal={Journal of Marine Science and Engineering},
   volume={7},
   number={3},
   pages={81},
   year={2019},
   publisher={MDPI}
 }

HAMS’ infinite depth Green function

  1. Wu, C. Zhang, Y. Zhu, W. Li, D. Wan, F. Noblesse, A global approximation to the Green function for diffraction radiation of water waves, Eur. J. Mech. B Fluids 65 (2017) 54-64.

  1. Liang, H. Wu, F. Noblesse, Validation of a global approximation for wave diffraction-radiation in deep water, Appl. Ocean Res. 74 (2018) 80-86.

@article{wu2017global,
   title={A global approximation to the Green function for diffraction radiation of water waves},
   author={Wu, Huiyu and Zhang, Chenliang and Zhu, Yi and Li, Wei and Wan, Decheng and Noblesse, Francis},
   journal={European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids},
   volume={65},
   pages={54--64},
   year={2017},
   publisher={Elsevier}
 }

 @article{liang2018validation,
   title={Validation of a global approximation for wave diffraction-radiation in deep water},
   author={Liang, Hui and Wu, Huiyu and Noblesse, Francis},
   journal={Applied Ocean Research},
   volume={74},
   pages={80--86},
   year={2018},
   publisher={Elsevier}
 }

Source code

To cite the source code itself, you can use the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1426306. It represents all versions of Capytaine and always points to the most recent version. If you want to cite a specific version, you can find its own DOI on Zenodo.