OpenFAST 2016

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Introduction

OpenFAST is a wind turbine simulation tool which builds on FAST v8. FAST.Farm extends the capability of OpenFAST to simulate multi-turbine wind farms. They were created with the goal of being community models developed and used by research laboratories, academia, and industry. 1

Installed version(s)

The following versions are installed and currently available...

... on environment hpc-env/8.3:

  • OpenFAST/3.1.0-intel-2019b

... on environment hpc-env/6.4:

  • OpenFAST/2.1.0-gimkl-2018a

Loading OpenFAST

To load the desired version of the module, use the module load command, e.g.

module load hpc-env/8.3
module load OpenFAST

Always remember: this commands are case sensitive!

Using OpenFAST

To find out on how to use OpenFAST you can just type in openfast -h after loading the module to print out a help text to get you started:

$ openfast -h

**************************************************************************************************
 OpenFAST

 Copyright (C) 2022 National Renewable Energy Laboratory
 Copyright (C) 2022 Envision Energy USA LTD

 This program is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
 See the "LICENSE" file distributed with this software for details.
 **************************************************************************************************

 OpenFAST-HEAD-HASH-NOTFOUND
 Compile Info:
  - Compiler: Intel(R) Fortran Intel(R) 64 Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64,
  Version 19.0.5.281 Build 20190815
  - Architecture: 64 bit
  - Precision: single
  - OpenMP: Yes, number of threads: 24/24
  - Date: Jul 08 2022
  - Time: 15:19:22
 Execution Info:
  - Date: 07/15/2022
  - Time: 11:42:28+0200


  Syntax is:

     OpenFAST [-h] <InputFile>

  where:

     -h generates this help message.
     <InputFile> is the name of the required primary input file.

  Note: values enclosed in square brackets [] are optional. Do not enter the brackets.


Documentation

The full documentation can be found here or on the [project wiki page https://github.com/OpenFAST/openfast] .