User defined yaw angle

Wind & Water Controls
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Dear,

For my thesis, I’m researching the link between yawing maneuvers and the generated loads on a wind turbine. For this, I want to test different yaw maneuvers, but I noticed that in the basic OpenFAST program, I was only able to apply a linear yaw maneuver. Is it possible to apply a user-defined yaw maneuver by using an open-loop controller in ROSCO?

Thanks for your help,
Abel Van Weert

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Hi Abel,

You can find an example of open-loop yaw control in this example: ROSCO/Examples/14_open_loop_control.py at main · NREL/ROSCO · GitHub

I hope this helps.

Best, Dan