Steady wind DLC

[dzalkind]

Description of feature

From Saeid at UIUC:

I have a question regarding running WEIS level3 with a steady wind speed. In the address "examples/03_NREL5MW_OC3_spar/modeling_options.yaml," I added the following code under "level3," but it appears to have no effect on the generated "InflowFile.dat" file. Upon checking, I found that the "WindType" is set to 3.

"InflowWind: WindType: 1 HWindSpeed: 10.0"

Could you please let me know how we can run "level 3" with a steady, uniform, and user-defined wind speed? This capability is developed in "level 2," but it seems that "level 3" does not have this capability.

Potential solution

If you have an existing OpenFAST model, you can use a script like this one: https://github.com/WISDEM/WEIS/blob/develop/examples/01_aeroelasticse/run_general.py

The case should follow a similar pattern to DLC 12.1. The DLC generator information is transferred to openfast cases around here.