FLOWFarm.jl

Summary: Wind farm simulation tool for gradient-based optimization.

Authors: Jared J. Thomas, Andrew P.J. Stanley

Features

• Swap out models without changing anything else in the simulation setup.
• Smooth/continous model implementations.
• Runs on a single core, across multiple cores (threaded), or on multiple machines (distributed).
• Designed so that new model implementations can be included by adding a single method.
• Allows for Wake Expansion Continuation (WEC) as described here.

Installation

Install FLOWFarm

julia
(v1.x) pkg> add FLOWFarm

• Begin with the quick start tutorial.
• An explanation of how to utilize sparsity can be found in wind farm struct.
• More advanced topics are covered in the how-to guide.
• Theory, details, and sources can be found in the theory page.
• Doc strings can be found in the references page.

Citing: Thomas, McOmber, and Ning "Wake Expansion Continuation: Multi-Modality Reduction in the Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem" Wind Energy (in review), –>