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FLORIS Wake Modeling & Wind Farm Controls

Getting Started

Installation
Switching from FLORIS v3 to v4

User Reference

Introductory Concepts
Wind Data Objects
FLORIS Models
Advanced Concepts
Heterogeneous Map
Floating Wind Turbine Modeling
Turbine Library Interface
Turbine Operation Models
Layout Optimization
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: Parallel Models
Example 10: 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
Example: Optimizing yaw angles with disabled turbines

Examples - Control types

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

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 using wind data
Example: Heterogeneous Speedup by Wind Direction and Wind Speed
Example: Heterogeneous Inflow in 2D and 3D

Examples - Layout optimization

Example: Optimize Layout
Example: Layout optimization with heterogeneous inflow
Example: Layout optimization with genetic random search
Example: Gridded layout design
Example: Separated boundaries layout optimization

Examples - Load optimization

Example: LTI and VOC Behavior with Changing Wind Direction and Power Setpoints
Example: Optimize a row of turbines

Examples - Multidim

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

Examples - Operation models

Example: Compare yaw loss under different operation models

Examples - Turbine

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

Examples - Turbopark

Example: Compare TurbOPark model implementations

Examples - Uncertain

Example: Uncertain Model Parameters
Example: Approximate Model Parameters
Example: Uncertain Model With Parallelization

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

Examples - Wind resource grid

Example: Generate Example WRG File
Example: WindRoseWRG
Example: Setting FLORIS with WindRoseWRG
Example: Layout optimization with WindRoseWRG comparison

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