AEP calculation

Wind & Water Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools
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Dear all,
I’m trying to use WISDEM to set up a simple case study to estimate AEP for a floating turbine. I cannot find any input variable to define the site average wind speed. I am able to run an estimation for a given WindIO input file, following the wisdem example (this example is related to a fixed bottom case, but i’m using it as a first attempt). Looking at the output from wisdem, it seems that the average wind speed is dependent on the chosen wind turbine class as defined in the assembly section of the input file. Is there a way to set a site specific value?

Thanks in advance.
Best regards,

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The mean wind speed is set by the turbine class designation in the input file according to IEC standards. So, Type I has a higher speed than Type II, etc.

The user can overwrite the mean wind speed used by setting V_mean in the environment section (usually towards the bottom) of the input yaml file. Schema definition is here.