topdesign

TopDesign

TopDesign is a general tool chain integration platform for multidisciplinary analysis and optimization, developed in DTU Wind as an open source tool.

The concept of the platform and the usage example on wind farm design can be found in:

Feng, Ju, and Jens Nørkær Sørensen. "Towards a general tool chain integration platform for multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization in wind energy." In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2767, no. 8, p. 082014. IOP Publishing, 2024. [link]

Source code of the platform is hosted in DTU Wind's GitLab site:

https://gitlab.windenergy.dtu.dk/topdesign/topdesign

Development of this platform has been partially supported by the MERIDIONAL project, which receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme under the grant agreement No. 101084216.

Installation

You can install the TopDesign package from PyPI using the following command:

pip install topdesign

You can also install TopDesign from GitLab (includes any recent updates):

pip install git+https://gitlab.windenergy.dtu.dk/topdesign/topdesign.git

We highly recommend developers to install TopDesign into a dedicated environment. The commands to clone and install TopDesign with developer options including dependencies required to run the tests into the current active environment in an Anaconda Prompt are as follows:

git clone https://gitlab.windenergy.dtu.dk/topdesign/topdesign.git
cd topdesign
pip install -e .

Usage

The standard topdesign platform relies only on numpy, matplotlib and scipy.

To run the example on wind farm design, you need to have py_wake and floris (==3.5) installed.

To run the example on multi-language model integration, you need to have matlabengine and juliacall installed.