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ADAMS2AD (v13.01.00a-bjj, 16-February-2012)
    ADAMS2AD is a set of routines used to interface MSC.ADAMS and AeroDyn.

AeroDyn (v13.00.01a-bjj, 16-February-2012)
    AeroDyn is an aerodynamics software library for use by designers of horizontal-axis wind turbines. It is written to be interfaced with structural-dynamics simulators (FAST, MSC.ADAMS, SIMPACK, and FEDEM).

BladeFS (v1.00.00a-mjd, 24-May-2010)
    BladeFS (Blade Fatigue Static) is a MATLAB® script that was developed to determine loads and deflections associated with fatigue and static structural testing of wind turbine blades.

FAST (v7.01.00a-bjj, 16-February-2012)
    FAST is a medium-complexity code for nonlinear aero-servo-elastic analysis of horizontal-axis wind turbines.  It can also extract linear state-space models for controls design and can be used to to generate MSC.ADAMS models.

HARP_Opt (v2.00.00, 13-July-2010)
    HARP_Opt (Horizontal Axis Rotor Performance Optimization) is a MATLAB® script that utilizes a multiple-objective genetic algorithm and blade-element momentum (BEM) theory flow model to design horizontal-axis wind and hydrokinetic turbine rotors.

NAFNoise (v1.00, 20-July-2005)
    NAFNoise is a code for determing 2-D airfoil noise using a variety of methods.

PROPID (v5.3, 6-January-2012)
    PROPID (PROP Inverse Design) is aerodynamic design software developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  You can use it to design rotors. Use this link to visit their site.

RPM-Sim (v2.21, 21-June-2001)
    RPM-Sim is an application-specific study of the system dynamics of renewable-energy hybrid (wind-diesel-PV-load etc.) power-systems.

SOWFA (v1.0-alpha, 6-January-2012)
    SOWFA is "Simulator for Offshore Wind Farm Applications" which enables a high-fidelity analysis of fluid physics and structural response using Large-eddy Simulations and FAST.

SymDyn
    The functionality for extracting state-space matrices and performing simulation studies for controls design using the aeroelastic SymDyn code has been replaced by functionality in FAST.  Please refer to the FAST User's GuidePDF to learn how to use it.

TurbSim (v1.50, 25-September-2009)
    TurbSim is a is a stochastic, full-field, turbulent-wind simulator. It is a descendant of SNLWIND-3D and SNwind with many new features.

WT_Perf (v3.10, 17-December-2004)
    WT_Perf estimates wind-turbine performance.

YawDyn
    We no longer recommend, support, or answer questions about YawDyn.  Please use the more-sophisticated FAST (or WT_Perf if you need something simpler).



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