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AeroDyn driver update for multiple wind turbines, with arbitrary motions and geometries#688

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AeroDyn driver update for multiple wind turbines, with arbitrary motions and geometries#688
rafmudaf merged 117 commits intoOpenFAST:devfrom
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@ebranlard ebranlard commented Mar 19, 2021

This pull request is almost ready to merge.

Feature or improvement description
New AeroDyn driver functionalities:

  • Multiple turbines with arbitrary number of blades and orientation (advanced rotor inputs)
  • Different motions for the base, nacelle yaw, and individual blade pitch: fixed values, sinusoidal, or arbitrary via time series
  • Simple wind definition (Power law), or InflowWind

Old features still supported:

  • Basic rotor inputs for HAWT (simply provide HubHeight, Tilt, Tower2Shaft)
  • Prescribed Time series of Wind Speed / PL Exp / Pitch / Yaw (AnalysisType=2)
  • Combined case analyses (AnalysisType=3)

Example of Applications

  • Sinusoidal motions of the Platform base
  • Vertical axis turbines
  • Multiple wind turbines
  • Quad rotor
  • Kites

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Impacted areas of the software
AeroDyn, OLAF

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Expected some small differences for OLAF Elliptical wing, will be resolved after #648 is merged

ebranlard and others added 30 commits February 8, 2021 20:52
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I think it all looks good, except the detail in IfW_FFWind_Base.f90

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I've merged with the latest dev and applied the changes requested.

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andrew-platt commented Aug 6, 2021

@ebranlard suggested this be merged after #729. I agree.

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