Dear developers
In particular Mr Jonkman
I have a question about the aerodynamic loading consideration on the [size=120]Tower[/size].
1- Does Fast (in the aerodyn or elastodyn module) compute the torsional loading in the tower?
The wind generates loads: Drag (Cd), Lift (Cl) and pitching moment (Cm).
I’ve seen Aerodyn’s option to enable or disable this function (USE_CM or NO_CM). But I believe this function is only for the blade. In the tower configurations (NRELOffshrBsline5MW_Onshore_AeroDyn_Tower.dat) it only has the drag coefficient (Cd).
I searched the input files, but I didn’t find such an option.
I also looked in the technical material (tutorial), but I didn’t find a reference, if any equation relates and gets the Cm from the Cd.
Thank you a lot for your support