Welcome to the Framework for Unified Systems Engineering and Design of Wind Turbine Plants ( FUSED-Wind). This is an open-source framework for multi-disciplinary optimisation and analysis (MDAO) of wind energy systems, developed jointly by DTU and NREL. The framework is designed as an extension to the NASA developed OpenMDAO, and defines key I/O elements and methods necessary for wiring together different simulation codes in order to achieve a system level analysis capability of wind turbine plants with multiple levels of fidelity. NREL and DTU have developed independent interfaces to their respective simulation codes and cost models (e.g. FAST/CCBlade, HAWC2/BECAS) with the aim of offering an environment where these codes can be used interchangeably. The open source nature of the framework enables third parties to develop interfaces to their own tools, either replacing or extending those offered by DTU and NREL.

FUSED-Wind depends on OpenMDAO and support python 2.7.x. Some modules also depends on pandas.

First install OpenMDAO development from their repository and activate its virtual environment.

Then run the following commands to download and install FUSED-Wind

$ git clone https://github.com/FUSED-Wind/fusedwind.git
$ cd fusedwind
$ plugin install

The documentation is available on the project website.

The tutorials and examples will be available soon in another repository.

Please use git issue tracker for reporting bugs.

If you want more information about the platform, please contact the following authors

DTU: Pierre-Elouan Réthoré, Frederik Zahle,

NREL: Katherine Dykes, Peter Graf, Andrew Ning