Impose rotor load time-series

Wind & Water Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools
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Good afternoon all,

Sorry if I missed it somehow, but I’m looking for a way to impose the aerodynamic load on the rotor with a time series. So basically overriding aerodyn computation, and giving just a nacelle load to elastodyn. Is that possible somehow ?

I guess I could define some tailored fake aero coefficients for virtual blades, but that would be a bit messy to implement.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

Benoit Paillard

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Dear Benoit,

This is not possible through an input file, but of course, FAST is open source and you can customize it how you want.

Best regards,

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Thanks for the confirmation, I’ll look at how that can be done in the code.

Regards,