TorqTwin

This is the repository for uploading the codes for the following publication:
TorqTwin—An open-source reference multibody modeling framework for wind turbine structural dynamics
Feng Guo^a,Zhen Gao^a, David Schlipf^b,c
a. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, China
b. Wind Energy Technology Institute, Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Kanzleistraße 91-93, 24943 Flensburg, Germany
c. sowento GmbH, Hessenlauweg 14, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2024.121268

Tutorial

To reproduce the simulation results presented in the paper, please do the following steps:

1. Create a virtual environment by:

   conda create -c conda-forge -n TorqTwin python=3.10 (recommanded)

2. Activate the virtual environment

   conda activate TorqTwin 

3. Install required packages

   conda install -c conda-forge ipympl ipython jupyter notebook matplotlib numpy pythreejs "scikits.odes" scipy "sympy>=1.12"

4. Open Jupyter Notebook

   jupyter notebook

5. Run examples Use jupyter notebook browser to open an example file, e.g. "ElastoDyn_fixbottom/TorqTwin_Onshore.ipynb", and run the cells.