Dear @Emanuel.Rergis,
Your problem is your UsableTime
is too short. For a 10-minute (600-s) simulation, I would generally recommend that you set AnalysisTime
= 600 s and UsableTime
= “ALL”, in which TurbSim will generate a periodic wind data file that repeats every 600 s. This will allow you to run a longer simulation (say 630 s) in OpenFAST and throw away the results during the start up transient (30 s in this example) and still give you 600 s of valid simulation results to post-process.
When using TurbSim with OpenFAST, the wind domain and its spatial-temporal discretization is specified in TurbSim. The section you highlight at the bottom of the InflowWind input file is only used if you use WindType
= 5 (HAWC format), which is not used in conjunction with TurbSim.
OpenFAST user documentation is available here: 4. User Documentation — OpenFAST v3.4.1 documentation, but some documentation is more exhaustive than others. The TurbSim documentation is not yet ported to readthedocs, but you can find the prior documentation (mostly up-to-date) here: https://www.nrel.gov/wind/nwtc/assets/downloads/TurbSim/TurbSim_v2.00.pdf.
Regarding OpenFAST workshops, see the following forum topic: Modeling Workshops. Our next public workshop will likely be held in conjunction with the NAWEA / WindTech 2023 conference the last week of October in Colorado.
Best regards,