OpenFAST with Julia

Specific Domains Modelling & Simulations
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OpenFAST is the standard wind turbine simulation tool from NREL, written in Fortran. OpenFAST · GitHub

If I want to use it in Julia on Linux, what is the best approach?

There are wrappers for Matlab and Python, but not for Julia (yet).

Any hints welcome!

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Here’s what the docs say about Fortran wrappers:

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/calling-c-and-fortran-code/#Fortran-Wrapper-Example

For OpenFAST it looks like there’s a jll already:

looks like it provides Apple and Linux wrappers, maybe you can try them? Mose has a whole video on using jlls in Julia packages:

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