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ADAMS2AD

(v12.19, 12-August-2005)

ADAMS2AD is a set of routines used to interface MSC.ADAMS®
and AeroDyn.

AeroDyn

(v12.58, 28-June-2005)

AeroDyn is an aerodynamics software library for use by designers
of horizontal-axis wind turbines. It is written to be interfaced
with structural-dynamics simulators (
MSC.ADAMS®, FAST, YawDyn,
and SymDyn).

FAST

(v6.01, 12-August-2005; using AeroDyn
v12.58)

FAST is a medium-complexity code for nonlinear
aero-servo-elastic analysis of horizontal-axis wind turbines.
It can also extract linear state-space models for controls design
and can be used to to generate MSC.ADAMS®
models.

NAFNoise

(v1.00, 20-July-2005)

NAFNoise is a code for determing 2-D airfoil noise using a
variety of methods.

PROPID

(v5.1, 14-April-2006)

PROPID (PROP Inverse Design) is aerodynamic design software
developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You can
use it to design rotors. Use this link to visit their site.

RPM-Sim

(v2.21, 21-June-2001)

RPM-Sim is an application-specific study of the system dynamics
of renewable-energy hybrid (wind-diesel-PV-load etc.) power-systems.

SymDyn

The functionality for extracting state-space matrices and
performing simulation studies for controls design using the
aeroelastic SymDyn code has been replaced by functionality in FAST.
Please refer to the FAST
User's Guide to learn how to use it.

TurbSim

(v1.21, 1-February-2007)

TurbSim is a is a stochastic, full-field, turbulent-wind
simulator. It is a descendant of SNLWIND-3D and SNwind with many new
features.

WT_Perf

(v3.10, 17-December-2004)

WT_Perf estimates wind-turbine performance.

YawDyn

(v12.16, 18-February-2005; using AeroDyn
v12.57)

YawDyn is a simple code for aerodynamic and dynamic analysis of
constant rpm rotors with two or more blades and a teetering or rigid
hub.

This page was last updated by J. Jonkman on
28-January-2008.

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