4.2.15. 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.

• 4.2.15.1. Nomenclature
• 4.2.15.2. Introduction
  • 4.2.15.2.1. FAST.Farm Driver
  • 4.2.15.2.2. Super Controller Module
  • 4.2.15.2.3. OpenFAST Module
  • 4.2.15.2.4. Wake Dynamics Module
  • 4.2.15.2.5. Ambient Wind and Array Effects Module
  • 4.2.15.2.6. FAST.Farm Parallelization
  • 4.2.15.2.7. Organization of the Guide
• 4.2.15.3. Running FAST.Farm
• 4.2.15.4. Input Files
  • 4.2.15.4.1. Units
  • 4.2.15.4.2. FAST.Farm Primary Input File
  • 4.2.15.4.3. Ambient Wind Precursor Files in Visualization Toolkit Format
  • 4.2.15.4.4. Ambient Wind with InflowWind Module Input Files
  • 4.2.15.4.5. OpenFAST Input Files
• 4.2.15.5. Output Files
  • 4.2.15.5.1. Echo File
  • 4.2.15.5.2. Summary File
  • 4.2.15.5.3. Visualization Output Files
  • 4.2.15.5.4. Wake dynamics Plane Files
  • 4.2.15.5.5. Time-Series Results File
  • 4.2.15.5.6. OpenFAST Output Files
• 4.2.15.6. Modeling Guidance
  • 4.2.15.6.1. FAST.Farm Setup Overview
  • 4.2.15.6.2. Inflow Wind Generation
  • 4.2.15.6.3. Low- and High-Resolution Domain Discretization
  • 4.2.15.6.4. Parameter Selection
  • 4.2.15.6.5. Super Controller
  • 4.2.15.6.6. Commonly Encountered Errors
• 4.2.15.7. FAST.Farm Theory
  • 4.2.15.7.1. Dynamic Wake Meandering Principles and Limitations Addressed
  • 4.2.15.7.2. FAST.Farm Theory Basis
• 4.2.15.8. Future Work
• 4.2.15.9. References
• 4.2.15.10. FAST.Farm Primary Input File
• 4.2.15.11. Ambient Wind File
• 4.2.15.12. List of Output Channels