Example 02c: Wind Farm Realistic Inflow (Direct - No Wake Modeling)

Example 02c: Wind Farm Realistic Inflow (Direct - No Wake Modeling)#

Description#

This example demonstrates the "no_added_wakes" wake method, which assumes that wake effects are already included in the input wind data and performs no additional wake modeling.

In this example, the WindFarm component uses wake_method: no_added_wakes, which means:

  • No FLORIS calculations are performed during the simulation (only at initialization to read turbine properties)

  • wind_speeds_withwakes equals wind_speeds_background at all times

  • Wake deficits are always zero

  • Turbine dynamics (filter model or DOF1 model) still operate normally

This example automatically generates the necessary input files in the centralized examples/inputs/ folder when first run.

Running#

To run the example, execute the following command in the terminal:

python hercules_runscript.py

Outputs#

To plot the outputs, run the following command in the terminal:

python plot_outputs.py
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