Rigid Wind Turbine with Harmonic Motions

Dear Ricardo,

What is the rotor speed?

Rules of thumb for selecting the aerodynamic and structural time steps are summarized in the following forum topic: FAST Integrator, step size & precision - #2 by Marshall.Buhl. Granted, these rules are for a flexible turbine operating in turbulence, and it sounds like you are modeling a rigid turbine, presumably in uniform inflow, so, you can probably increase the time step relative to these recommendations.

By the way: If you are truly modeling a a rigid wind turbine, are you only interested in aerodynamic quantities, not including mass/inertial effects. If so, the new driver for AeroDyn under development within OpenFAST may be of interest to you as an alternative to modeling a rigid turbine in OpenFAST with motion prescribed via ExtPtfm: github.com/OpenFAST/openfast/pull/688.

Best regards,