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Welcome to Discourse-Based Wind & Water Forum News and Announcements Welcome to the NREL’s Discourse-Based Wind & Water Forum! This forum is used to support the software and data provided by NREL’s wind and water programs. This forum replaces the old php-based NWTC forum previously host…	9	6455	February 2, 2022
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Restoring Force upon Steady state in WEC-Sim Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	7	62	September 16, 2025
Can Elastodyn directly consider hydrodynamic loads Structural Analysis	11	496	September 16, 2025
Regarding BeamDyn Usage Structural Analysis	5	22	September 16, 2025
Initialisation output before Timesteps Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	5	17	September 15, 2025
Viscous damping coefficients of UMaine VolturnUS-S semi-submersible platform (IEA-15-240-RWT) Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	2	12	September 15, 2025
IEA 15 MW on UMaine Semi-Sub Floater: Reason for Maximum Thrust Value in the Peak Shaver Routine Controls	7	1286	September 15, 2025
IEA15 UMaine Semisubmersible subdyn model Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	6	88	September 15, 2025
Imposed force does not affect the motion of a turbine Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	11	40	September 15, 2025
Stiffness matrix Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	11	77	September 12, 2025
Clarification - Theoretical background of TMD Controls	3	16	September 12, 2025
Foundation Stiffness and damping in FAST v8 Structural Analysis	83	30539	September 12, 2025
NcIMUT is very large value Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	12	28	September 11, 2025
Error - forrtl: severe (157): Program Exception - access violation Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	11	22	September 10, 2025
Selection of blade coordinate system Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	13	59	September 10, 2025
Running Multiple FAST S-Functions in Simulink General	5	1119	September 10, 2025
Platform structural constraint Systems Engineering Software Tools	5	38	September 9, 2025
Simulation of two wind turbines with varying wind direction Wind Farm Modeling	2	21	September 9, 2025
Using BECAS to obtain 6X6 stifness and mass properties for BEAMDyn input Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	5	21	September 8, 2025
Aerodynamic sensitivity gradients of the torque and thrust force Rotor Aerodynamics	1	13	September 8, 2025
Creating u, v, and w files using TurbSim Inflow Turbulence	7	50	September 8, 2025
Drivetrain Dynamic Model General	38	8384	September 8, 2025
Wind & Wave data Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	70	41807	September 5, 2025
[NREL 5 MW RWT] Tower mass, fore-aft inertia and parallel axis theorem Structural Analysis	3	19	September 2, 2025
Running IEA-15-240-RWT with BeamDyn instead of Elastodyn Wind & Water	4	659	September 2, 2025
Second-order responses of a FWT (using AQWA for the frequency domain analysis) Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	5	753	September 2, 2025
Running OpenFAST with Simulink Type 4 Wind Turbine Generator Model Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools	49	2888	August 26, 2025
Building a DTU 10MW Turbine numerical model using Orcaflex Systems Engineering Software Tools	13	1101	August 22, 2025
Modeling Workshops News and Announcements	29	81854	August 22, 2025

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