In areas relevant for oil and gas field developments where there is a possibility for encountering icebergs, proper assessment of iceberg drift, iceberg towing, and iceberg loads are needed. To assess those issues one may needs input on the hydrodynamic properties of an iceberg, such as added mass, wave drift coefficient, and first order wave response. Due to the complexity of the iceberg shape, it is difficult and very time consuming to model the wet surface of the iceberg manually in any hydrodynamic numerical software. The present paper focuses on the development of a numerical tool tailor made specifically to enhance the efficiency of the hydrodynamic analysis, from pre-processing, model development, main analysis in the hydrodynamic solver, and to post-processing of the results. A demonstration of the capability of the tool is given on an irregular shape iceberg with five different sizes in order to evaluate their hydrodynamic properties.
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