FAST and wind loads on tower

[Mark.Spring]

additional discussion on tower wind loading is in the following thread:-

Normal aerodynamic forces on the tower

Hi all, I’m Lorenzo Montanari, a PhD student of the University of Parma (Italy). I’m checking the wind turbine model, i’m writing in MATLAB language, with FAST. I’m considering the data of the 1.5 MW wind turbine you used to verify FAST. I don’t find the data file to insert the drag coefficient and the geometrical parameters of the tower’s elements that need to calculate the normal aerodynamic forces along the tower’s height due to the wind! How does FAST evaluate the normal aerodynamic forc…