pyNuMAD - 2024 Updates

New features

1. Structural damping analysis: Determine modal loss factors based on constituent properties
2. Blade root submodeling from in-house mesher.

Improvements

1. Solid in-house mesher and Abaqus solid model example, as well as to add some documentation and introduce the renaming of the pynumad.shell directory to pynumad.mesh_gen.
2. Cubit workflow: In the actual process of making beam and solid models with the Cubit workflow, many bugs and improvements were made to actually be able to use these models. Beforehand, only the geometry and some basic meshing was working. In particular, the solid model geometry generation was improved in that each volume uses adjacent volume spanwise splines. The material orientation was improved significantly in speed and accuracy.
3. yaml reader to base reference line off of the reference axis
4. PyPi Release
5. Updated data file structure and build config to allow data files to be included in normal installations/wheels.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Python
Published by ecamare 6 months ago

pyNuMAD - pyNuMAD 1.0.0

Core functionality from previous versions of the NuMAD software
framework have been translated to the Python programming language
under the name pyNuMAD. Following the changes made in NuMAD 3.0,
pyNuMAD focuses on an object-oriented approach to blade design.

Below is a summary of key features currently available:

• Reading in blade definitions from the windIO yaml format.
  Legacy NuMAD Excel input files are also supported.
• Creation of wind blades made from shell and/or solid elements.
• Optional details such as adhesive bonds.
• 2D cross sectional meshes for tools like VABS/ANBA/OpenSG

The GUI and .nmd legacy input files are discontinued for now.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Python
Published by ecamare over 1 year ago