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Hard-coded hub height in horizontalAxisWindTurbinesOpenFAST #9

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ewquon opened this issue Aug 3, 2017 · 2 comments
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Hard-coded hub height in horizontalAxisWindTurbinesOpenFAST #9

ewquon opened this issue Aug 3, 2017 · 2 comments

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@ewquon
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ewquon commented Aug 3, 2017

In sendInput(), the hub height is hard-coded to be 90 m
https://github.com/NREL/SOWFA/blob/OpenFAST/src/turbineModels/turbineModelsOpenFAST/horizontalAxisWindTurbinesALMOpenFAST/horizontalAxisWindTurbinesALMOpenFAST.C#L439

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mchurchf commented Aug 3, 2017

This is okay. This is a feature that ends up not getting used by OpenFOAM, so hard coding something is fine. Nalu uses this feature to get an approximate idea of the rotor when it is allocating processors to turbines.

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gantech commented Aug 3, 2017

To avoid this issue popping in the future as a bug, we could read in an approximate hub height from the turbineArrayProperties and populate the hubLoc

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