⚡ Introducing QBlade 2.0.7: Faster, More Advanced, and More Reliable! ⚡
We’re excited to introduce QBlade 2.0.7! This major upgrade enhances simulation accuracy and computational efficiency, supporting detailed analyses for both onshore and offshore wind energy projects.
Core Improvements
- Performance Boost: QBlade CE 2.0.7 is more than 2.5x faster than its predecessor, ensuring efficient simulations without compromising on accuracy or detail.
- Aerodynamics: The new Dynamic Wake Meandering model allows for highly efficient simulations of entire wind parks.
- Structural Dynamics: Timoshenko and fully populated 6×6 Timoshenko beams, anisotropic damping model; nonlinear stiffness model for synthetic mooring lines.
- Hydrodynamics: Features one-sided Morison drag and frequency-filtered axial drag coefficients for better low-frequency excitation predictions. Supports multiple interacting hydrodynamic bodies (NBODY>1) in linear potential flow.
- Wave Generation: Nonlinear streamfunction waves and constrained nonlinear waves are now integrated through coupling with the CN-Stream code, for an efficient generation of nonlinear design waves.
- Wind Generation: Fully implements the Mann turbulence generator for generating turbulent wind fields.
- Integrated with windIO yaml: Enables full aerodynamic blade definition generation and automatied generation of 6×6 FPM structural blade property tables.
Additionally, this release features improved stability, an enhanced GUI, and numerous bug fixes, ensuring a smoother and more reliable user experience.
Free download available now at: https://qblade.org/downloads/
For a detailed list of changes, check out the changelog: https://qblade.org/assets/ChangeLogQB.txt
We’ve also overhauled and extended the QBlade Docs with information on the new features: https://docs.qblade.org/