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IfW: add VTK output of slice in XY to driver

Open andrew-platt opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

This PR is ready to merge.

NOTE: this is a duplicate of #1643 which was automatically closed when the dev-unstable-pointers branch was deleted. See discussions on that PR.

Feature or improvement description This allows visualizing a slice through hub-height (or other height) when comparing with a simulation. The user can specify the height at which to export the slice. At the moment it is a very slow process due to the looping and because it exports over the entire time range (this could be improved later).

Screenshot 2023-06-21 at 2 26 44 PM This figure shows the XY plane at the hub height for a Mann wind field (HAWC format). The vertical plane is exported from the driver using the WrVTK option. Both are taken at 23.625 seconds.

Related issue, if one exists #1643

Impacted areas of the software InflowWind driver only

Additional supporting information During testing of the wake added turbulence feature, I ran into issues in verifying that the background turbulence was being added correctly. To check this, I needed some way to visualize the XY plane through the hub from the Mann box turbulence.

Test results, if applicable No test cases are affected. I did not add a test case for this since it is a very slow code to execute.

andrew-platt avatar May 10 '24 15:05 andrew-platt

  • [ ] Verify all suggested changes from #1643 have been implemented.

andrew-platt avatar May 10 '24 15:05 andrew-platt