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Help a newbie please
Hi
I am interested in learning how to generate and optimise wind turbines. I have built a Tim Piggot HAWT, and want to build bigger and better next time but have little understanding of the principles behind it. I have tried to use QBlade on linux but cannot get past just opening up the program. I have 2 questions;
- Are there any really simple video tutorials just showing how to generate a turbine for a specific size, tip speed, and utput.
- Ubuntu 20.04 tells me that it is Unable to locate package libquadmath. Do I need this in order to run QBlade properly?
Thanks
Aaron
Hi Aaron,
to run on linux follow the info shown in the text file run_qblade_info.txt. See below:
- install some libraries that are required to run qblade
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y libqt5opengl5 libqt5xml5 libquadmath0 libglu1-mesa - start qblade by executing the shell script “./run_qblade.sh”
We have not yet created any official video tutorials yet, but if you search the web you will find some tutorials of varying quality that cover the basics.
BR,
David
