Updates to AeroDyn

docs/source/user/aerodyn-dynamicStall/examples/UA-driver-timeseries.dat

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Example Time-Series Input File for UnsteadyAero Driver
+
+
+This file has 8 header lines followed by three columns of data:
+
+
+Time     Angle of Attack     VRel      omega
+(s)       (deg)              (m/s)    (rad/s^2)
+0.0       0                  10        0
+0.01      0                  10        0
+0.02      0                  10        0

docs/source/user/aerodyn-dynamicStall/examples/UA-driver.inp

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+UnsteadyAero Driver file for Unit NACA. k = 0.077  
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+FALSE         Echo                - Echo the input file data (flag)
+---------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS -------------------------------
+     340.29   SpdSound            - Speed of sound (m/s)
+---------------------- UNSTEADYAERO -------------------------------------------
+"05014051_NACA" OutRootName       - The name which prefixes all UnsteadyAero generated files (quoted string)
+      40.36   InflowVel           - Inflow velocity (m/s)
+       1.48   Re                  - Reynolds number in millions (-)
+          3   UAMod               - Unsteady Aero Model Switch: 2 - Gonzalez’s variant (changes in Cn,Cc,Cm); 3 - Minnema/Pierce variant (changes in Cc and Cm)
+TRUE          Flookup             – Flag to indicate whether a lookup for f’ will be calculated (TRUE) or whether best-fit exponential equations will be used (FALSE); if FALSE S1-S4 must be provided in airfoil input files
+------------------- AIRFOIL PROPERTIES ----------------------------------------
+"05000051_AD15.dat"    AirFoil    - Airfoil table
+       0.55   Chord               - Chord length (m)
+TRUE          UseCm               - Use Cm data in airfoil table
+------------------- SIMULATION CONTROL ----------------------------------------
+       1      SimMod              - Simulation model [ 1 - use reduced frequency model, 2 - use time series data stored in the TimeInputs file and ignore the remaining parameters ]
+       3      NCycles             - Number of angle-of-attack oscillations (cosine function) over the length of the simulation (-)
+     720      StepsPerCycle       - Number of timesteps per cycle (-)
+       1.8    Frequency           - Frequency for the airfoil oscillations (Hz)
+       9.685  Amplitude           - Amplitude of the oscillations (deg)
+      15.195  Mean                - Cycle mean (deg)
+    -180      Phase               - Initial phase (num steps)
+"UA-driver-timeseries.dat"     InputsFile          - Time series data in an ASCII input file (whitespace-separated data).  8 header lines, followed by column data. First column is time (sec), second column is angle-of-attack (deg), third column is InflowVel (m/s)
+"END" of driver input file

docs/source/user/aerodyn/appendix.rst

@@ -15,7 +15,13 @@ In this appendix we describe the AeroDyn input-file structure and provide exampl
 
 The driver input file is only needed for the standalone version of AeroDyn and contains inputs normally generated by OpenFAST, and necessary to control the aerodynamic simulation for uncoupled models.  
 
-2) AeroDyn Primary Input File 
+2) AeroDyn Driver Timeseries Input File
+:download:`(driver timeseries input file example) <examples/ad_driver_timeseries_example.inp>`: 
+The timeseries input file for a case in the AeroDyn driver allows the parameters
+to vary with time. This feature can be useful for debugging the aerodynamic response
+outside of OpenFAST. 
+
+3) AeroDyn Primary Input File 
 :download:`(primary input file example) <examples/ad_primary_example.inp>`: 
 
 The primary AeroDyn input file defines modeling options, environmental conditions (except freestream flow), airfoils, tower nodal discretization and properties, as well as output file specifications.
@@ -24,12 +30,12 @@ The file is organized into several functional sections.  Each section correspond
 
 The input file begins with two lines of header information which is for your use, but is not used by the software.
 
-3) Airfoil Data Input File
+4) Airfoil Data Input File
 :download:`(airfoil data input file example) <examples/ad_airfoil_example.inp>`: 
 
 The airfoil data input files themselves (one for each airfoil) include tables containing coefficients of lift force, drag force, and pitching moment versus AoA, as well as UA model parameters.  In these files, any line whose first non-blank character is an exclamation point (!) is ignored (for inserting comment lines).  The non-comment lines should appear within the file in order, but comment lines may be intermixed as desired for reading clarity.  
 
-4) Balde Data Input File
+5) Blade Data Input File
 :download:`(blade data input file example) <examples/ad_blade_example.inp>`: 
 
 The blade data input file contains the nodal discretization, geometry, twist, chord, and airfoil identifier for a blade.  Separate files are used for each blade, which permits modeling of aerodynamic imbalances.  

docs/source/user/aerodyn/examples/ad_airfoil_example.inp

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 0.996141   0.000290
 1.000000   0.000000
 ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+"unused"      BL_file           ! The file name including the boundary layer characteristics of the profile. Ignored if the aeroacoustic module is not called.
           1   NumTabs           ! Number of airfoil tables in this file.
 ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ! data for table 1
@@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ true          InclUAdata        ! Is unsteady aerodynamics data included in this
           0   k1_hat            ! Constant in the expression of Cc due to leading edge vortex effects.  [ignored if UAMod<>1]
 "Default"     x_cp_bar          ! Constant in the expression of \hat(x)_cp^v. [ignored if UAMod<>1, default = 0.2]
 "DEFAULT"     UACutout          ! Angle of attack above which unsteady aerodynamics are disabled (deg). [Specifying the string "Default" sets UACutout to 45 degrees]
-"DEFAULT"     filtCutOff        ! Cut-off frequency (-3 dB corner frequency) for low-pass filtering the AoA input to UA, as well as the 1st and 2nd derivatives (Hz)… 
+"DEFAULT"     filtCutOff        ! Reduced frequency cut-off for low-pass filtering the AoA input to UA, as well as the 1st and 2nd derivatives (-) [default = 0.5]
 !........................................
 ! Table of aerodynamics coefficients
          63   NumAlf            ! Number of data lines in the following table

docs/source/user/aerodyn/examples/ad_driver_example.inp

@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ True          TabDel          - When generating formatted output (OutForm=True),
 "ES10.3E2"    OutFmt          - Format used for text tabular output, excluding the time channel.  Resulting field should be 10 characters. (quoted string)
 True          Beep            - Beep on exit (flag)
 -----  Combined-Case Analysis  -------------------------------------------------
-          1   NumCases        - Number of cases to run
+          2   NumCases        - Number of cases to run
 WndSpeed       ShearExp       RotSpd        Pitch            Yaw           dT             Tmax
 (m/s)            (-)          (rpm)         (deg)           (deg)          (s)            (s)
 5.0000000E+00  0.0000000E+00  7.1900000E+01  3.0000000E+00  0.0000000E+00  3.9700000E-02  8.3450000E-01
-
+@ADTimeSeriesInput.dat

docs/source/user/aerodyn/examples/ad_driver_timeseries_example.inp

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Time   WndSpeed   ShearExp     RotSpd     Pitch          Yaw 
+(s)   (m/s)       (-)          (rpm)      (deg)         (deg)
+0.0    4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000    100.00000000
+0.05   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     90.00000000
+0.10   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.15   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.20   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.25   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.30   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.35   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.40   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.45   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.50   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.55   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000
+0.60   4.00000000  0.00000000   2.0        0.00000000     80.00000000

docs/source/user/aerodyn/input.rst

@@ -65,9 +65,7 @@ improved tower clearance.
 
 The I/O SETTINGS section controls the creation of the results file. If
 ``OutFileRoot`` is specified, the results file will have the filename
-*OutFileRoot.#.out*, where the ‘\ *#*\ ’ character is an integer
-number corresponding to a test case line found in the COMBINED-CASE
-ANALYSIS section described below. If an empty string is provided for
+*OutFileRoot.out*. If an empty string is provided for
 ``OutFileRoot``, then the driver file’s root name will be used
 instead. If ``TabDel`` is ``TRUE``, a TAB character is used between
 columns in the output file; if FALSE, fixed-width is used otherwise.
@@ -115,6 +113,19 @@ match the time step for the aerodynamic calculations (``DTAero``) as
 specified in the primary AeroDyn input file, and ``Tmax`` is the total
 simulation time.
 
+Note that ``dT`` should be the same for each of the cases listed in the 
+COMBINED-CASE ANALYSIS section. All of the cases will be output to the same
+file, with a ``Case`` column listed next to the ``Time`` output column 
+for help with data processing.
+
+For further debugging capability, the AeroDyn driver now also has the
+ability to read the combined case input data as a time-history file. 
+In place of a row in the COMBINED-CASE ANALYSIS table, a separate input file
+can be listed instead. The name of the file should be preceded with the ``@``
+character, to indicate the data is a time-history file in a separate text
+input file. An example is provided in 
+:numref:`ad_appendix`
+
 AeroDyn Primary Input File
 --------------------------
 
@@ -340,7 +351,7 @@ Specify the number of airfoil data input files to be used using
 file names should be in quotations and can contain an absolute path or a
 relative path e.g., “C:\\airfoils\\S809_CLN_298.dat” or
 “airfoils\\S809_CLN_298.dat”. If you use relative paths, it is
-relative to the location of the current working directory. The blade
+relative to the location of the file in which it is specified. The blade
 data input files will reference these airfoil data using their line
 identifier, where the first airfoil file is numbered 1 and the last
 airfoil file is numbered ``NumAFfiles``.
@@ -395,7 +406,9 @@ running AeroDyn standalone, or by the OpenFAST program when running a
 coupled simulation. See section 5.2 for summary file details.
 
 AeroDyn can output aerodynamic and kinematic quantities at up to nine
-nodes along the tower and up to nine nodes along each blade.
+nodes specified along the tower and up to nine nodes along each blade.
+For outputs at every blade node, see :numref:`AD-Nodal-Outputs`.
+
 ``NBlOuts`` specifies the number of blade nodes that output is
 requested for (0 to 9) and ``BlOutNd`` on the next line is a list
 ``NBlOuts`` long of node numbers between 1 and ``NumBlNds``
@@ -447,7 +460,7 @@ complete list of possible output parameters.
 .. _airfoil_data_input_file:
 
 Airfoil Data Input File
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-----------------------
 
 The airfoil data input files themselves (one for each airfoil) include
 tables containing coefficients of lift force, drag force, and pitching
@@ -464,7 +477,7 @@ pitching-moment, and minimum pressure coefficients as a function of AoA.
 When ``InterpOrd`` is 1, linear interpolation is used; when
 ``InterpOrd`` is 3, the data will be interpolated with cubic splines;
 if the keyword ``DEFAULT`` is entered in place of a numerical value,
-``InterpOrd`` is set to 3.
+``InterpOrd`` is set to 1.
 
 ``NonDimArea`` is the nondimensional airfoil area (normalized by the
 local ``BlChord`` squared), but is currently unused by AeroDyn.
@@ -481,6 +494,9 @@ exterior shape of the airfoil. The airfoil shape is currently unused by
 AeroDyn, but when AeroDyn is coupled to OpenFAST, the airfoil shape will be
 used by OpenFAST for blade surface visualization when enabled.
 
+``BL_file`` is the name of the file containing boundary-layer characteristics
+of the profile. It is ignored if the aeroacoustic module is not used.
+
 Specify the number of Reynolds number- or aerodynamic-control
 setting-dependent tables of data for the given airfoil via the
 ``NumTabs`` setting. The remaining parameters in the
@@ -635,11 +651,11 @@ input file):
    UA are disabled; if the keyword ``DEFAULT`` is entered in place of a
    numerical value, ``UACutOut`` is set to 45.
 
--  ``filtCutOff`` is the cut-off frequency (-3 dB corner frequency)
-   (in Hz) of the low-pass filter applied to the AoA input to UA, as
+-  ``filtCutOff`` is the cut-off reduced frequency
+   of the low-pass filter applied to the AoA input to UA, as
    well as to the pitch rate and pitch acceleration derived from AoA
    within UA; if the keyword ``DEFAULT`` is entered in place of a
-   numerical value, ``filtCutOff`` is set to 20.
+   numerical value, ``filtCutOff`` is set to 0.5.
 
 ``NumAlf`` is the number of distinct AoA entries and determines the
 number of rows in the subsequent table of static airfoil coefficients;
@@ -651,8 +667,13 @@ interpolate on AoA using the data provided via linear interpolation or via cubic
 splines, depending on the setting of input ``InterpOrd`` above. 
 If ``AFTabMod`` is set to ``1``, only the first airfoil table in each file
 will be used. If ``AFTabMod`` is set to ``2``, AeroDyn will find the
-airfoil table that bounds the computed Reynolds number, and linearly interpolate
-between the tables, using the logarithm of the Reynolds numbers.
+airfoil tables that bound the computed Reynolds number,
+and linearly interpolate between the tables, using the logarithm of the Reynolds numbers.
+If ``AFTabMod`` is set to ``3``, it will find the bounding airfoil 
+tables based on the ``UserProp`` field and linearly interpolate the tables
+based on it. Note that OpenFAST currently sets the ``UserProp`` input value to ``0`` 
+unless the DLL controller is used and sets the value, 
+so using this feature may require a code change.
 
 For each AoA, you must set the AoA (in degrees), ``alpha``, the lift-force
 coefficient, ``Coefs``\ (:,1), the drag-force coefficient,
@@ -675,8 +696,7 @@ minimum pressure coefficients may be absent from the file.
 .. _blade_data_input_file:
 
 Blade Data Input File
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
+---------------------
 
 The blade data input file contains the nodal discretization, geometry,
 twist, chord, and airfoil identifier for a blade. Separate files are

docs/source/user/api_change.rst

@@ -30,10 +30,17 @@ AeroDyn        14   AA_InputFile       "unused"                AA_InputFile
 AeroDyn        35   [separator line]   ======  OLAF cOnvecting LAgrangian Filaments (Free Vortex Wake) Theory Options  ================== [used only when WakeMod=3]
 AeroDyn        36   OLAFInputFileName  "Elliptic_OLAF.dat"     OLAFInputFileName - Input file for OLAF [used only when WakeMod=3]
 AirFoilTables  4\*  BL_file            "unused"                BL_file           - The file name including the boundary layer characteristics of the profile. Ignored if the aeroacoustic module is not called.
+============== ==== ================== =============================================================================================================================================================================
 
+============== ==== ================== =============================================================================================================================================================================
+Modified in OpenFAST `dev`
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Module        Line  Flag Name          Example Value
+============== ==== ================== =============================================================================================================================================================================
+AirFoilTables  40\* filtCutOff         "DEFAULT"               filtCutOff        - Reduced frequency cut-off for low-pass filtering the AoA input to UA, as well as the 1st and 2nd derivatives (-) [default = 0.5] 
 ============== ==== ================== =============================================================================================================================================================================
 
-\*non-comment line count
+\*non-comment line count, excluding lines contained if NumCoords is not 0.
 
 Additional nodal output channels added for :ref:`AeroDyn15<AD-Nodal-Outputs>`,
 :ref:`BeamDyn<BD-Nodal-Outputs>`, and :ref:`ElastoDyn<ED-Nodal-Outputs>`.