bug fix in vizFileGen and changes to handle Jul 2024 Kestrel updates

[mayankchetan]

Purpose

Minor bug fixes for WEIS Viz input generation tool. Changes to kestrel installation script to handle the Jul 2024 Kestrel updates

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Testing

Tested on Kestrel on 01AUG24

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[dzalkind]

Thanks @mayankchetan! When this is ready, can you assign a reviewer?

[mayankchetan]

@sora-ryu Can you review these changes?

@dzalkind, we might have to add @sora-ryu to the repo as a contributor.

[sora-ryu]

Hey @mayankchetan , the viz file generation works well with raft optimization, but having some error on openfast optimization. Do you want to check on this?

[mayankchetan]

Can you try again after updating your WEIS env? I think these are recent changes.

[sora-ryu]

Hmm, I am having a same error after reinstallation as well.

[sora-ryu]

@mayankchetan - I just temporarily changed modeling and geometry input yaml files for now and it works fine. (1. Manually changed the floating platform member types Ca and Cd from singular value to array type. 2. Set path2dll path as none, as it couldn't find the library)

I PRed on your repo with some minor changes that include type and default channel settings. After that, looks like ready to go.

[mayankchetan]

@dzalkind, I think this is good to merge