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FLORIS Wake Modeling & Wind Farm Controls

Getting Started

Installation
Switching from FLORIS v3 to v4

User Reference

Introductory Concepts
Advanced Concepts
Wind Data Objects
Floating Wind Turbine Modeling
Turbine Library Interface
Turbine Operation Models
Main Input File Reference
Turbine Input File Reference

Theory and Background

Wake Models
- Empirical Gaussian model
Bibliography

Developer Reference

Developer's Guide
Architecture and Design
Code Quality
API Documentation

Examples

Example 1: Opening FLORIS and Computing Power
Example 2: Visualizations
Example 3: Wind Data Objects
Example 4: Set
Example 5: Getting Turbine and Farm Power
Example 6: Getting Expected Power and AEP
Example 7: Sweeping Variables
Example 8: Uncertain Models
Example 9: Compare farm power with neighboring farm

Examples - Control optimization

Example: Optimize yaw for a single wind speed and multiple wind directions
Example: Optimize yaw for a single wind speed and multiple wind directions.
Example: Optimize yaw for multiple wind directions and multiple wind speeds.
Example: Optimize yaw and compare AEP
Example: Optimize yaw and compare AEP in parallel
Example: Compare yaw optimizers
Example: Optimize yaw with neighbor farm

Examples - Control types

Example of using the simple-derating control model in FLORIS.
Example 001: Disable turbines
Example: Setting yaw angles and disabling turbine
Example: Helix active wake mixing

Examples - Emgauss

Example: Empirical Gaussian velocity deficit parameters
Example: Empirical Gaussian deflection parameters

Examples - Floating

Example: Floating turbines
Example: Floating vs fixed-bottom farm
Example: Tilt-driven vertical wake deflection

Examples - Get flow

Example: Extract wind speed at turbines
Example: Extract wind speed at points
Example: Plot velocity deficit profiles

Examples - Heterogeneous

Example: Heterogeneous Inflow for single case
Example: Heterogeneous Inflow for multiple conditions
Example: Heterogeneous Inflow in 2D and 3D

Examples - Layout optimization

Example: Optimize Layout
Example: Layout optimization with heterogeneous inflow

Examples - Multidim

Example: Multi-dimensional Cp/Ct data
Example: Multi-dimensional Cp/Ct with 2 Hs values

Examples - Turbine

Example: Check turbine power curves
Example: Multiple turbine types
Example: Specify turbine power curve

Examples - Uncertain

Example 8: Uncertain Model Parameters

Examples - Visualizations

Example: Layout Visualizations
Example: Visualize y cut plane
Example: Visualize cross plane
Example: Visualize rotor velocities
Example: Visualize flow by sweeping turbines

Examples - Wind data

Example: Wind Data Comparisons
Example: Generate TI
Example: Generate value

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