v3.5.5

Overview of v3.5.5

This release includes only minor bug fixes. See below for details.

Input File changes

No input file formats change.

Changelog

Overview

This release includes multiple small bug-fixes for compilation with CMake, compilation with the IFX compilers, file opening issues when OpenMP is used, and a couple of infrequent segmentation faults from improper usage. One minor feature improvement is the increase in the number of output planes available in FAST.Farm from 99 to 999.

We recommend all users currently using any 3.5.x version to update to this version. There are no input files changes or API changes for calling from other codes since version 3.5.0.

General

Build systems

#2497 CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX was incorrectly being prepended to the install direcotry (@deslaughter) Derek Slaughter

#2564 Create BUILD_OPENFAST_LIB_DRIVER flag for the OpenFAST C++ Library Interface (not CFD) (@deslaughter)

Docker

#2498 Docker: typo was preventing docker build upload to GH (@andrew-platt)

Solvers

FAST.Farm

#2536 FAST.Farm: increase number of output planes to 999 (@andrew-platt)

#2554 Add !$OMP critical directives around some GetNewUnit/Open*File to reduce probability of file unit conflicts (@andrew-platt)

#2569 Disable LiDAR in IfW at FAST.Farm level (@andrew-platt)

Module changes

AeroDyn

#2501 Remove $OMP directives from AeroDyn_Inflow due to Intel compiler bug (@deslaughter)

#2516 AD bugfix: Segmentation fault with ifx compiler (@andrew-platt)

InflowWind

#2518, #2530 ADI bugfix: BoxExceed was not enabled for OLAF with ADI (@andrew-platt)

#2532 bugfix: IfW rotor points for disk average incorrect (@andrew-platt)

NWTC-Library

#2558 Allow ParseVar to parse file paths containing spaces. (@deslaughter)

Input file changes

No input files change with this release as this only includes minor bugfixes (input files are identical across all 3.5.x releases).

Full list of changes: https://openfast.readthedocs.io/en/main/source/user/api_change.html

Full input file sets: https://github.com/OpenFAST/r-test/tree/v3.5.5 (example input files from the regression testing)

Precompiled Windows Binaries

The binary files in this release were built with the Visual Studio solution files distributed with OpenFAST (not using cmake), using

• Intel Fortran compiler 2021 (Update 2, w_oneAPI_2021.2.0.243) with Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 (C), for build in Matlab
• MATLAB Version: 9.9.0.1857802 (R2020b) Update 7
• Executables with _OpenMP or _OMP in the name are built with OpenMP libraries and linked with dynamic libraries.
  • You will need this Intel Fortran redistributable package installed to use these executables if you do not already have Intel Fortran OneAPI 2021 installed. See the installation instructions here.
  • You may also need a redistributable library for Visual Studio installed. See instructions here.

The other OpenFAST executables DO NOT require these redistributable libraries to be installed. Instead, they were built with static libraries.