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Recent Releases of WEIS

WEIS - v1.5.2 release

Changes include:

  • faster tests
  • lock of wisdem and pcrunch versions
  • update to installation instructions in readme
  • update to visualization routines and their documentation

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by ptrbortolotti 25 days ago

WEIS - Visualization and path to InflowWind

Minor release introducing the new code to visualize the yaml files and a bug fix for the relative path of TurbSim files passed to InflowWind

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by ptrbortolotti 2 months ago

WEIS - WEIS v1.5

Incorporate latest WEIS development efforts, including

  • OpenFAST 4.0 support
  • Visualization tool
  • Optimization documentation
  • Various bug fixes and support for latests dependencies
  • Additional documentation of WEIS inputs
  • New DLC generator
  • Improved and automated parallelization using MPI
  • Slight re-organization of the examples directory, now all geometry inputs can be found in one location: https://github.com/WISDEM/WEIS/tree/main/examples/00_setup/ref_turbines
  • Re-naming of the Levels for clarity in the modeling options (Level1 = RAFT, Level2 = OpenFAST_Linear, Level3 = OpenFAST)

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by dzalkind 2 months ago

WEIS - OpenFAST 4.0.2 and TurbOEM v1.4

Internal release on develop branch to support NREL-internal work on the aeroelastic modeling of turbines (TurbOEM v1.4). WEIS now runs OpenFAST v4.0.2, with a small hiccup from petsc4py, which is locked to 3.22.2 (instead of 3.22.3)
A more formal WEIS tag will come from main once the develop branch is merged

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by ptrbortolotti 3 months ago

WEIS - Inverse design of offshore wind turbines

Internal NREL release to support the TurbOEM v1.1 release

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by ptrbortolotti 4 months ago

WEIS - v1.4

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/WISDEM/WEIS/compare/v1.3...v1.4

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by dzalkind 4 months ago

WEIS - MPI Upgrades

This tag works with the WISDEM 3.18 MPI upgrades.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by dzalkind 5 months ago

WEIS - Windows Support, Improved Installation, and other Phase II Developments

We have simplified the conda packaging and added support for Windows.

Each example should now have a README page describing how to run each case.

Several bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

Support for rectangular floating members in WISDEM and RAFT.

Optimization plotting tools.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by dzalkind 9 months ago

WEIS - Rely on conda packaging to provide key elements of the WEIS stack

This dramatically simplifies the WEIS repository and relies on conda packaging to deliver the key NREL software tools that comprise much of the WEIS stack. Now delivered by conda:

  • OpenFAST
  • ROSCO
  • pyHAMS
  • RAFT
  • WISDEM
  • MoorPy
  • pCrunch

For straight users of WEIS, there is no more need for compilers and you can be up and running quickly. For developers, we recommend removing the conda package(s) that require new capabilities and installing from source directly.

Note that this approach is working well for Mac & Linux (current WEIS capability), but still struggles on Windows.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by gbarter over 1 year ago

WEIS - WEIS v1.1

Major updates since v1.0:

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/WISDEM/WEIS/compare/v1.0...v1.1

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by dzalkind over 2 years ago

WEIS - WEIS v1.0

This is the official v1.0 release of WEIS as it contains all of the key functionality proposed by the NREL team. Many more improvements are planned across the WEIS stack of WISDEM, OpenFAST, RAFT, ROSCO, pCrunch, and others in coming projects.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by gbarter about 3 years ago

WEIS - Soft release in prep for v1.0

This is a soft release that contains many changes and improvements to the code, but many more are coming in the next few weeks that will comprise v1.0

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by gbarter about 3 years ago

WEIS - Preliminary frequency domain capability

The number of small features and bug fixes since the last release are probably too numerous to list or easily organize. High points include:

Frequency domain capability

New additions to the WEIS stack are RAFT (frequency domain solver), pyHAMS (potential-flow hydrodynamics), and MoorPy (pure python quasi-static mooring model). These have not yet been fully integrated with the WEIS design optimization workflow and have only undergone limited testing. Not yet ready for non-NREL use.

Direct usage of OpenFAST loads in design constraints

Design constraints around structural stress or buckling from extreme loads now use OpenFAST outputs for the blades and towers. Floating platform stress analysis from OpenFAST will be completed soon.

Improved optimization robustness

Many of the bug fixes and tweaks came from running sample problems and identifying issues. Many improvements have been made to the native WEIS code and even more to the supporting WISDEM and ROSCO tools.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by gbarter almost 4 years ago

WEIS - Interim Release

This is an interim release of WEIS that has in place simple controls co-design design optimization capability for floating offshore wind turbines at "Level 3", non-linear time domain simulation with OpenFAST.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Roff
Published by gbarter about 4 years ago