Hi Jason,
Is it possible to get the initialisation output only before Openfast starts the time steps? I am trying to get the static solution of the system, ie. the various loads and displacements of the system in its equilibrium position, before wind, waves and current are applied.
If I run Openfast with TMax = 0, will I get this result?
Best regards,
Rahul
Dear @Rahul.Ramachandran,
The outputs at time zero are the initialized outputs before states are time-advanced.
That said, OpenFAST does not currently compute a steady state or equilibrium condition before the time-domain solution. We’ve worked on that feature a bit, but this work is not yet completed.
Best regards,
Hi Jason,
Thank you for your reply, Jason.
Where is the vtk visualisation script located in the source code? Is it written in python or Fortran?
Dear @Rahul.Ramachandran,
OpenFAST will generated VTK-formatted files, but NREL has not provided a VTK visualization tool. For that, there are freely available versions available, such as ParaView: https://www.paraview.org/.
Best regards,
Hi Jason,
Thanks for your message. I am interested in knowing how the vtk files are generated. Could you tell me where this is inside the source code ?
Rahul
Dear @Rahul.Ramachandran,
I would search for variable WrVTK in the OpenFAST source code, which you’ll see used in several source files, with a large concentration in FAST_Subs.f90.
Best regards,
Thank you so much, Jason.