Hi, I'm a mechanical engineering student using q-blade for a course project, and was trying to figure out how to model a rotor that is in the wake of a second rotor. I've figured out how to set up an LLT simulation for the front rotor and, using a velocity cut plane, determine the velocity field at the position of the second rotor. What I can't figure out is how to re-import that velocity field to use as an input for a second simulation with the other rotor. Is there a way to import the txt file it generates back in? I've attached a screenshot of what the file looks like.
these files cannot be imported - but you can import a windfield in the TurbSim binary format (bts).
The import function is within the windfield module.
Towards the end of this document is a description of the format https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy06osti/39797.pdf
You could code a little tool that converts the QBlade generated txt files into bts files.
Best regards,
David
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Hi, I'm a mechanical engineering student using q-blade for a course project, and was trying to figure out how to model a rotor that is in the wake of a second rotor. I've figured out how to set up an LLT simulation for the front rotor and, using a velocity cut plane, determine the velocity field at the position of the second rotor. What I can't figure out is how to re-import that velocity field to use as an input for a second simulation with the other rotor. Is there a way to import the txt file it generates back in? I've attached a screenshot of what the file looks like.
Hi,
these files cannot be imported - but you can import a windfield in the TurbSim binary format (bts).
The import function is within the windfield module.
Towards the end of this document is a description of the format https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy06osti/39797.pdf
You could code a little tool that converts the QBlade generated txt files into bts files.
Best regards,
David