| MICHLET | |
| Michlet calculates the total (viscous + wave) resistance and far-field wave elevations of thin monohulls and multihulls. It will run under Windows on most modern PCs. Examples bundled with the program include kayaks, rowing shells, catamarans, proas, SWATH, trimarans, submarines, and destroyers. Michlet is free for all users. | |
| DOWNLOAD VERSION 8.07 (1.89Mb zip). After downloading and unzipping the file, read the manual by loading the file michman.htm (which can be found in the docs directory) into your browser. | |
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A manual and tutorial are now available in Spanish.
Many thanks to Rámon Hernández-Ortega who translated the
manual, wrote the tutorial, and made them freely available.
Although these papers relate to version 8.05, the changes in versions 8.06 and 8.07
are very minor. Download (pdf): Manual in Spanish Tutorial in Spanish. |
| External Links |
| FREESHIP! PLUS | |
| Free!ship Plus is an open source surface-modelling program based on Martijn van Engeland's Free!Ship and vigorously enhanced by Victor Timoshenko. This free program supports Michlet's file format and many others. | |
| BOATDESIGN.NET FORUMS Discussions about Michlet, Free!ship Plus, and everything else related to water craft at the world's best marine site. | |
| WINEDT | |
| WinEdt is a versatile shareware ASCII editor and Windows shell that is perfect for editing Michlet input and output files. User-defined buttons can be made to launch Michlet and other programs with a single click. Output files are updated inside the editor when Michlet finishes execution. | |
| GNUPLOT | |
| Wgnuplot is a free Windows-capable plotting utility that can read Michlet output files. It is a perfect companion to WinEdt and an excellent way to include graphics inside LaTeX documents and pdfs. |