dykesk / towerse

DEPRECATED: TowerSE is a systems engineering model of cylindrical shell wind turbine towers.

DEPRECATED

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THIS REPOSITORY IS DEPRECATED AND WILL BE ARCHIVED (READ-ONLY) IN NOVEMBER 2019.

WISDEM has moved to a single, integrated repository at https://github.com/wisdem/wisdem

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TowerSE

TowerSE is a systems engineering model of cylindrical shell wind turbine towers. The analysis uses beam finite element theory, cylinder drag data, linear wave theory, and shell/global buckling methods from wind turbine standards. The module is developed as an OpenMDAO assembly.

Author: NREL WISDEM Team

Documentation

See local documentation in the docs-directory or access the online version at http://wisdem.github.io/TowerSE/

Installation

For detailed installation instructions of WISDEM modules see https://github.com/WISDEM/WISDEM or to install TowerSE by itself do:

$ python setup.py install

Run Unit Tests

To check if installation was successful try to import the package:

$ python
> import towerse.tower

You may also run the example:

$ python src/towerse/tower.py

For software issues please use https://github.com/WISDEM/TowerSE/issues. For functionality and theory related questions and comments please use the NWTC forum for Systems Engineering Software Questions.