Wisdem

WISDEM's use of MPI was a bit clunky and out of date. Meanwhile, OpenMDAO's integration with MPI has improved significantly over the past few years. This update leans more on OpenMDAO, making using WISDEM in parallel more robust and simpler for both developers and users.

(Hopefully) Final tweak in the v3.17 release series that ensures ability to use peak thrust shaving as a control design variable

Thanks to user feedback, it was apparent that the WISDEM-ORBIT interface was outdated and giving incorrect Balance of Station costs. This release primarily intended to fix that error, but also brings along other improvements that were queued for the next release, including:

- Drivetrain bedplate length for geared turbines was off by 0.5 * D_hub (512 )
- Easier ability to set mass constraints for the tower and monopile (previously had to use user-customizations)
- Fix out-of-date issues on Docs and plotting script for Example 02 (576 )
- Easily get performance tables (rotor performance, blade geometry, blade layup, tower geometry)
- Shift the peak thrust shaving coefficient from a modeling options file to ps_percent under the controls: heading (consistent with ROSCO). This enables using it as a design variable.
- Enabling user-specified design variables and constraints to have index-specific bounds

Highlights of WISDEM 3.17 are:

- Greater ability for the user to provide input values for components to override internal WISDEM calculations. A new case was added to the 11_user_custom example demonstrating this new ability. More work along these lines will be forthcoming.
- Noticeable improvement in blade design optimization convergence and quality of solution
- Upgrade to latest release of ORBIT
- Improved robustness of writing outputs to file, and ability to read them back in as a "restart"
- Support for Numpy 2.0
- Improvements in floating platform optimization with WEIS
- Add turbine and bos capex costs as optimization merit figures
- Fix bug in the proper accounting for blade mass in the tower top forces.
- Fix bug that ensures that commissioning and decommissioning costs are included in LandBOSSE figures.
- MPI bug fixes for Windows