Wisdem

New capability around segmented blades and jacket design for fixed-bottom offshore structures has been added. A number of bug fixes, especially in the substructure and tower design, have been fixed.

This release addresses some shortcomings in the v3.5 release related to tower design, conda packaging, and install procedures.

Here is what is new in WISDEM v3.5.0:

- Laying the groundwork for design of offshore jacket foundations and other alternatives besides monpoiles
- Laying the groundwork for the capability to do forward & inverse airfoil design in conjunction with blade & rotor design
- Backend changes to refactor the code and separate tower and monopile modules which also allowed for catching and fixing bugs
- Fixes in floating platform mass accounting
- Fixes in floating tower modal analysis for design and coupling with OpenFAST
- Cleanup of rotor cost module and support for segmented blades
- More robustness improvements and other bug fixes

Pinning setuptools version for stable package building.

Multiple quality-of-life changes and feature additions to WISDEM have occurred since the last release, including:

- Floating platform modeling improvements
- Inverse design capability
- Multiple WEIS compatibility fixes
- The ability to use the INN airfoil design package
- Bug fixes for newer versions of OpenMDAO

Removing unused code causing errors in the conda build