Questions for the r-test

[ChaoREN1994]

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[ChaoREN1994]

Dear,all
It is about the modules “5MW_OC4Jckt_DLL_WTurb_WavesIrr_MGrowth” and “5MW_OC4Jckt_ExtPtfm”. I did not compile the openfast. I used the windows binaries download from https://github.com/OpenFAST/openfast/releases to run the two modules. But they both failed.

For “5MW_OC4Jckt_DLL_WTurb_WavesIrr_MGrowth” , I try to replace the InflowWind input file by one used in FASTv8 , It worked.

But for the “5MW_OC4Jckt_ExtPtfm” module, I think it is also the problem of input file?? But in r-test site https://github.com/OpenFAST/r-test/tree/master/glue-codes/openfast, I can not find the input file. In addition, for the ExtPtfm module, how could I import my new platform matrix using superelement(substructure) method? Do you have any tutorial, technical report or paper about this part? Thanks!!!

[andrew-platt]

You are likely looking at the wrong version of r-test. Try this one: https://github.com/openfast/r-test/tree/283707d5f3a9d8e23acd08c9521fba81d275530a

Also, if you cloned the GitHub repository for OpenFAST, make sure to do the git submodule update --init --recursive after cloning. This is outlined here: https://openfast.readthedocs.io/en/master/source/testing/index.html#configuring-the-test-suite

[ChaoREN1994]

Thanks for your reply! I did follow the steps in https://openfast.readthedocs.io/en/master/source/testing/index.html#configuring-the-test-suite. Here are the files I cloned.
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But there are also the same problem. And in this one https://github.com/openfast/r-test/tree/283707d5f3a9d8e23acd08c9521fba81d275530a , I did not find the this file "5MW_OC4Jckt_ExtPtfm". It has been deleted?

[andrew-platt]

I'm not entirely sure where you cloned the above files from. The 5MW_OC4Jckt_ExtPtfm test case is not yet released for OpenFAST. We have that test case in a branch that we will be merging into OpenFAST in the future (#350 which uses https://github.com/OpenFAST/r-test/tree/pullrequest/350/glue-codes/openfast). It should be noted that there are changes in the input files for this unreleased feature that are not compatible with OpenFAST v2.3.0.

[ChaoREN1994]

Ok, thanks! It will be released in this year or not ? Thanks for your reply!!!

[rafmudaf]

@ChaoREN1994 5MW_OC4Jckt_ExtPtfm exists in the dev branch but not the master branch of r-test. Generally, the dev branch will be up-to-date and contain slightly more new features (or in this case, new models and model updates) than the master branch.

That being said, the compiled binaries you downloaded are for v2.3.0 which is the latest commit on the OpenFAST master branch. So, they don't have the required code recently added to the dev branch to parse the inputs for ExtPtfm. Thats why you're seeing that error.

For the OC4 Jacket case, I don't know why an older InflowWind input file should work. In fact, there are no documented changes to the InflowWind API since FAST 8.

[rafmudaf]

For what its worth, there is a corresponding version of r-test for each version of OpenFAST. In your case, all of the files at https://github.com/OpenFAST/r-test/tree/v2.3.0 will work.

[ChaoREN1994]

Thanks for your reply. You are really nice. I am looking forwaid to the new version of Openfast with 5MW_OC4Jckt_ExtPtfm module. Thanks again!!!