OpenFAST v3.3.0
Release Notes
General
#1183 Fix bugs and issues in the online documentation
#1248 OpenFAST Registry: allow pointers
AeroDyn
#1000 Updates of Unsteady Aero (UAMod=4) and DBEMT (DBEMT_Mod=3) for linearization
#1037 Bug fix: BEMT was disabled for negative inflow
#1042 AD: merge more of TwrInfl and TwrInflArray routines
#1061 Fix AeroDyn WriteOutput linearization (and cleanup some code)
#1078 Enable cavitation calculation and outputs using FVW
#1188 AD15 driver: add visualization option for line meshes in addition to surfaces
#1239 AeroAcoustics: fix BL-thickness for heavily-tripped airfoil
HydroDyn
#999 Fix HD added mass on member end (Close #992)
#1230 HD: increase max length of line read from kinematics files
MoorDyn
#1086 MoorDyn v2 + shared moorings + wave propagation in FAST.Farm
MAP++
#1186 MAP: allow keyword fixed and fix
NWTC Library
#1254 NWTC Library and WriteOutput updates
Build System
#1198 Option to disable variable tracking with GNU compiler
#1228 r-test: Remove -m64 in CMAKE_Fortran_FLAG from r-test
Testing System
#1203 Add parallel branches to GitHub Actions
#1217 Consolidate regression test baseline set
#1222 Improvements to regression test python scripts
#1244 Reg-test scripts modification to help avoid race condition and cleanup of caselist
#1264 GitHub Workflow: adding build-all-debug-single to check type errors
C++ API
#1176 Simulink: add documentation of inputs to FAST_Library.h
#1211 Use dt_out when storing OpenFAST outputs in Python interface
#1227 Seg Fault due to hub model and external inflow
Linearization
#1199 Small improvements for -VTKLin visualization outputs
Precompiled Binaries
The binary files in this release were built with the Visual Studio solution files distributed with OpenFAST (not using cmake), using
- Intel Parallel Studio XE 2019 for Fortran (Update 5) with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 (C) (v1.40), for build without Simulink interface
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 (C) (v1.41), for build in Matlab
- MATLAB Version: 9.11.0.1837725 (R2021b) Update 2
- FAST.Farm_x64_OMP.exe is built with OpenMP libraries and linked with dynamic libraries.
- You will need this Intel Fortran redistributable package installed to run FAST.Farm_x64_OMP.exe if you do not already have Intel Fortran 2019 Update 5 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.