4.18. FAST.Farm User’s Guide and Theory Manual

The FAST.Farm implementation plan is also available for download: FAST.Farm Development Plan.

The documentation here was derived from the FAST.Farm User’s Guide and Theory Manual by Jason Jonkman and Kelsey Shaler.

• 4.18.1. Nomenclature
• 4.18.2. Introduction
  • 4.18.2.1. FAST.Farm Driver
  • 4.18.2.2. Super Controller Module
  • 4.18.2.3. OpenFAST Module
  • 4.18.2.4. Wake Dynamics Module
  • 4.18.2.5. Ambient Wind and Array Effects Module
  • 4.18.2.6. FAST.Farm Parallelization
  • 4.18.2.7. Organization of the Guide
• 4.18.3. Running FAST.Farm
• 4.18.4. Input Files
  • 4.18.4.1. Units
  • 4.18.4.2. FAST.Farm Primary Input File
    • 4.18.4.2.1. Simulation Control
    • 4.18.4.2.2. Super Controller
    • 4.18.4.2.3. Shared Moorings
    • 4.18.4.2.4. Ambient Wind: Precursor in Visualization Toolkit Format
    • 4.18.4.2.5. Ambient Wind: InflowWind Module
    • 4.18.4.2.6. Wind Turbines
    • 4.18.4.2.7. Wake Dynamics
    • 4.18.4.2.8. Wake-Added Turbulence (WAT)
    • 4.18.4.2.9. Visualize
    • 4.18.4.2.10. Output
  • 4.18.4.3. Ambient Wind Precursor Files in Visualization Toolkit Format
  • 4.18.4.4. Ambient Wind with InflowWind Module Input Files
  • 4.18.4.5. OpenFAST Input Files
• 4.18.5. Output Files
  • 4.18.5.1. Echo File
  • 4.18.5.2. Summary File
  • 4.18.5.3. Visualization Output Files
  • 4.18.5.4. Wake dynamics Plane Files
  • 4.18.5.5. Time-Series Results File
  • 4.18.5.6. OpenFAST Output Files
• 4.18.6. Modeling Guidance
  • 4.18.6.1. FAST.Farm Setup Overview
  • 4.18.6.2. Inflow Wind Generation
    • 4.18.6.2.1. High-Fidelity Precursor Ambient Inflow
    • 4.18.6.2.2. Complex Terrain
    • 4.18.6.2.3. Synthetic Turbulence Ambient Inflow
      • 4.18.6.2.3.1. TurbSim
      • 4.18.6.2.3.2. Mann Model
  • 4.18.6.3. Low- and High-Resolution Domain Discretization
    • 4.18.6.3.1. Low-Resolution Domain
    • 4.18.6.3.2. High-Resolution Domain
  • 4.18.6.4. Parameter Selection
    • 4.18.6.4.1. InflowWind Domain Parameters
      • 4.18.6.4.1.1. Low-Resolution Domain
      • 4.18.6.4.1.2. High-Resolution Domain
    • 4.18.6.4.2. Wake Dynamics Parameters
  • 4.18.6.5. Super Controller
  • 4.18.6.6. Commonly Encountered Errors
    • 4.18.6.6.1. InflowWind Errors
      • 4.18.6.6.1.1. Turbine Leaving the Domain
      • 4.18.6.6.1.2. Undefined Location
• 4.18.7. FAST.Farm Theory
  • 4.18.7.1. Dynamic Wake Meandering Principles and Limitations Addressed
  • 4.18.7.2. FAST.Farm Theory Basis
    • 4.18.7.2.1. FAST.Farm Driver
    • 4.18.7.2.2. Super Controller (SC Module)
    • 4.18.7.2.3. OpenFAST (OF Module)
    • 4.18.7.2.4. Wake Dynamics (WD Module)
      • 4.18.7.2.4.1. Wake Advection, Deflection, and Meandering
      • 4.18.7.2.4.2. Near-Wake Correction
      • 4.18.7.2.4.3. Wake-Deficit Increment
      • 4.18.7.2.4.4. Wake-Added Turbulence (WAT)
    • 4.18.7.2.5. Ambient Wind and Array Effects (AWAE Module)
      • 4.18.7.2.5.1. Ambient Wind
      • 4.18.7.2.5.2. Wake Merging
• 4.18.8. Future Work
• 4.18.9. References
• 4.18.10. FAST.Farm Primary Input File
• 4.18.11. Ambient Wind File
• 4.18.12. List of Output Channels