v3.2

What's Changed

• Feature: Expand capabilities of UncertaintyInterface by @Bartdoekemeijer in #428
• Remove commented and legacy code in floris_interface.py by @Bartdoekemeijer in #397
• Clean up and simplify some things by @rafmudaf in #437
• Enabling vectorized time series calculation of wind conditions by @bayc in #400
• Add method to return turbine TIs by @bayc in #452
• Add example of getting wind speeds at turbines by @paulf81 in #423
• pass in het map when copying fi by @paulf81 in #456
• Bug fix: Convert layout to layout_x and layout_y in FlorisInterface.reinitalize by @RHammond2 in #470
• Issue alert if calc wake needs to be run by @paulf81 in #432
• Fix bug in plot_turbines_with_fi by @pjireland in #445
• Add wake deflection to the TurbOPark wake deficit model by @bayc in #439
• Add a forced max of 3 to turbine grid points by @paulf81 in #472
• calculate dudz_initial analytically to support using only 1 rotor grid point by @bayc in #476
• Feature: Add turbine_weights option in get_farm_power and get_farm_aep by @Bartdoekemeijer in #435
• Layout optimization refactoring by @bayc in #429
• Feature/add ref density by @paulf81 in #398
• Update wind rose and power rose by @paulf81 in #392
• add ref density to legacy reader by @paulf81 in #497
• adding missing time_series flag to cc flow field solver call by @bayc in #493
• v3.2 by @rafmudaf in #498

New Contributors

• @pjireland made their first contribution in #445

Full Changelog: v3.1.1...v3.2

v3.1.1

This releases fixes an installation issue described in #447.

v3.1

What's Changed

#358 Feature: add IEA 15MW turbine
#373 / #407 Add no_wake option to floris calculations
#384 Add normal vector to CutPlane to invert plot axis
#369 Redesign AEP calculation function
#385 Bug fix for yaw optimizer: revise verify_convergence to support multiple wind speeds
#382 Add cut out and default reference option
#388 Save yaw angles for reset in plane visualizations
#386 Documentation improvements
#393 Remove energy ratio tools in favor of FLASC
#308 Add UncertaintyInterface for modeling inflow wind direction uncertainty
#381 Fix for repeated calls to calculate_wake returning incorrect values
#387 Bug fix and formatting for legacy reader for FLORIS V2.4 input files
#395 / #406 Add 'none' submodel option for wake deflection, deficit and turbulence
#404 Add command line interface to the legacy input converter
#396 Adding the TurbOPark wake velocity deficit model
#408 Add GH Actions to run examples
#410 Create all Grid data at initialization

Full Changelog: v3.0.1...v3.1

v3.0.1

Bug fix release

Fixes included are

• #367 Correcting bound for boundary constraint; removing hard-coded rotor diameter
• #368 Rename version file to Python
• #370 Include yaw_optimization in package init

v3.0

This release includes major upgrades to FLORIS' software architecture, provides better computational performance, and includes a new, more accurate wake model. Details can be found at: https://www.nrel.gov/wind/assets/pdfs/floris-v3-announcement.pdf.

v3.0 Prerelease 4

This release fixes remaining issues in the deployment infrastructure through PyPI.

v2.5

Wind Took Kit documentation improvements
#243 Improve visualize_cut_plane() function
#245 Improved SciPy Yaw optimization classes
#254 Fixing yaw position when calculating power with wind direction uncertainty
#261 Add simple turbine clustering functionality to SciPy yaw optimization
#262 Refactorization of yaw optimization code and inclusion of the Serial Refine optimization method
#265 Improve performance by disabling wake calculations when no_wake=True
#275 Calculate no-wake farm power in optimization

v3.0 Prerelease 3

This prerelease fixes an issue in the build and install system introduced in v3.0rc2.

v3.0 Prerelease 2

This prelease includes the following updates:

• Adds GitHub Pages-based documentation at https://nrel.github.io/floris
• Improvements to Serial-Refine yaw optimizer (#281)
• Supports heterogenous wind speed definitions (#303)
• Improves Jensen / Jimenez model performance by about 25% (#317)

v3.0 Prerelease 1

This is the initial public release of a redesigned architecture of the FLORIS software called FLORIS v3.

We are actively seeking beta testers for the new framework. If you are interested in using FLORIS to conduct studies of a wind farm or extending FLORIS to include your own wake model, please get in touch! Register for beta testing at https://forms.office.com/g/AmpAkJVvja and join the conversations at GitHub Discussions.