Using personal turbine models - !input

[RT96-stu]

Hi !

I would like to use FLORIS on a lot of wind farms with plenty turbine types.
Therefore, I tried to automate the creation of inputs.

I read in an other discussion that you can use personal turbine models as long as you write

• !input /path/to/turbine/model.yaml
  in the input file. But I didn't manage to write !input without quote marks. I tried the FLORIS fi.reinitialize and yaml.safe_dump. Is there a way to make python write it in the input file ?

I'd prefer a solution without changing the turbine_library, since I work in a share Virtual Environment and it takes time to update libraries.

Thank you in advance

[misi9170]

Hi @RT96-stu, to use the !include (not !input, just to be clear) it's easiest to modify the model yaml directly. For instance, try modifying the relevant part of the floris input yaml to something like:

farm:
  layout_x:
  - 0.0
  - 630.0
  - 1260.0
  .
  .
  .
  - 5000.0
  - 10000.0
  .
  .
  .
  - 10630.0
  layout_y:
  - 0.0
  - 0.0
  - 0.0
  .
  .
  .
  - 0.0
  - 1000.0
  .
  .
  .
  - 1000.0
  turbine_type:
  - !include path/to/turbine_type_1
  - !include path/to/turbine_type_1
  - !include path/to/turbine_type_1
  . 
  .
  . 
  - !include path/to/turbine_type_1
  - !include path/to/turbine_type_2
  .
  .
  . 
  - !include path/to/turbine_type_2

This is explained more in #766 (which I think you were alluding to). To use the !include notation, you need to modify the input yaml itself---this notation can't be passed to fi.reinitialize(). If you want to pass the turbine types to fi.reinitialize() directly, you'll need to first load the turbine models to a dictionaries (e.g. turbine_dict_1, turbine_dict_2) and then pass those dictionaries to the reinitialize method (e.g. fi.reinitialize(layout_x=[0, 1000], layout_y=[0, 0], turbine_type=[turbine_dict_1, turbine_dict_2]))

[RT96-stu]

Hi @misi9170 !
Thanks for the answer.
I managed to use the - !include method you described. I tried to write it with the yaml library on python, which forced me to put the !include within quote marks. With the built-in write method, it works !