Package windSimSuite

Wind-sim-suite is a library for simulating wind turbines. The main part is based on the Python package of MBDyn that provide objects for represeting abstract quantities: reference frames, nodes and elements. In this package, specific wind turbine objects are created. A wind turbine is splitted into 3 components: a tower, a nacelle and a rotor. The user is supposed to deal with those objects to start a simulation. The aerodynamic calculations are performed by an unsteady blade element momentum (BEM) code written entirely in Python. Two complete models have been written: the tjaereborg and NREL ones.

The post processing of data is done by the windsimsuite application. A graphical user interface written in the GTK library allows to explore results in 3D thanks to VTK and plot figure in 2D with Matplotlib. That's why the code uses also the pyGTK package as well as the PyGtkGLExt one for providing a VTK area within a GTK interface. As a third part software, Glade was used to design the interface.

Version: 0.1-r1

Submodules

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windSimSuite.bem_node: A blade element momentum node.
windSimSuite.blade: The blade definition.
windSimSuite.common: Common object for the Wind Sim Suite simulation.
windSimSuite.interface: The interface with GTK and VTK of the wind-sim-suite application.
- windSimSuite.interface.application: Describe the main wind-sim-suite application
- windSimSuite.interface.blade: The blade defined in a graphical environment
- windSimSuite.interface.common: The common graphical objects.
- windSimSuite.interface.figures: Possible figures plotted by Matplotlib.
- windSimSuite.interface.main: Define a WindTurbine and Simulation in a graphical environment
- windSimSuite.interface.manager: The glue between the main application and the simulation.
- windSimSuite.interface.matplotlib_manager: The figures manager.
- windSimSuite.interface.nacelle: The nacelle definition in a graphical environment.
- windSimSuite.interface.rotor: The rotor and hub definition in a graphical environment.
- windSimSuite.interface.sections: The section definition in a graphical environment.
- windSimSuite.interface.tower: The tower definition in a graphical environment.
- windSimSuite.interface.vtk_area: The definition of the VTK area.
windSimSuite.main: The wind turbine and simulation definitions.
windSimSuite.models: Some of the wind turbine models based on the wind-sim-suite package
- windSimSuite.models.nrel: The NREL turbine model.
- windSimSuite.models.tjaerborg: The Tjaereborg turbine model.
- windSimSuite.models.tjaerborgData: A package for the Tjaereborg airfoil data.
  - windSimSuite.models.tjaerborgData.airfoils: A module loading the Tjaereborg airfoils.
windSimSuite.nacelle: The nacelle definition
windSimSuite.references: The reference frames for the unsteady Blade Element Momentum (BEM) calculations
windSimSuite.rotor: The rotor and hub definitions.
windSimSuite.sections: The aerodynamics sections definition for the unsteady BEM code.
windSimSuite.tower: The tower definition

Variables

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__author_utf8__ = 'Andr\xc3\xa9 ESPAZE'

__author_email__ = 'ded.espaze@laposte.net'

__research_group__ = ['Francesco Braghin', 'Luca Cavagna', 'Pi...

Variables Details

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['Francesco Braghin',
 'Luca Cavagna',
 'Pierangelo Masarati',
 'Fanzhong Meng',
 'Marco Morandini',
 'Giuseppe Quaranta',
 'Patrick Rix',
 'Philippe-Emmanuel Ascar']