FLOWFarm.jl

Summary: Wind farm simulation tool for gradient-based optimization.

Authors: Jared J. Thomas, Andrew P.J. Stanley

Features

• Compatible with ForwardDiff for gradiant-based optimization
• Swap out models without changing anything else in the simulation setup
• Smooth/continous model implementations
• Runs on a single core, across multiple cores (threaded), or on multiple machines (distributed).
• Designed so that new model implementations can be included by adding a single method
• Allows for Wake Expansion Continuation (WEC) as described here

Installation

Install FLOWFarm

(v1.x) pkg> dev https://github.com/byuflowlab/FLOWFarm.jl.git

Enable NaN Safe Mode in ForwardDiff

NaN Safe Mode must be enables in ForwardDiff for ForwardDiff to work properly with FLOWFarm.

(v1.x) pkg> dev ForwardDiff

$ cd ~/.julia/dev/ForwardDiff/src/

In prelude.jl, on the first line, set const NANSAFE_MODE_ENABLED = true and save the file. For more information see the ForwardDiff documentation at http://www.juliadiff.org/ForwardDiff.jl/latest/user/advanced.html

Testing

To test FLOWFarm, run the following from the top directory:

julia
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activate .
test

Documentation

• Begin with the quick start tutorial.
• More advanced topics are covered in the how-to guide.
• Theory details, and links, can be found in the theory page.
• Doc strings can be found in the references page.

Citing: Thomas, McOmber, and Ning "Wake Expansion Continuation: Multi-Modality Reduction in the Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem" Wind Energy (in review), -->