NuMAD (Numerical Manufacturing And Design) is an object-oriented, open-source software program written in Matlab which simplifies the process of creating a three-dimensional model of a wind turbine blade. The tool manages all blade information including aerodynamic, and material properties as well as, material placement. The blade information can be modified by a structural-optimizer in NuMAD or it can be used to run other tools in a stand-alone mode:
The ANSYS® commercial finite element package
The NWTC codes PreComp, BModes, Crunch, and FAST
PLOT3D file format for CFD mesh building
When used in conjunction with these other tools, NuMAD provides computation of blade cross section properties, various structural analyses, and estimation of blade aeroelastic instability.
For any questions or support create a new issue on GitHub.
Step-by-step examples are located in the examples folder on GitHub. Follow allong in the documentation.
NuMAD is licensed under BSD 3-clause license. Please see the LICENSE included in the source code repository for more details.
NuMAD is currently being developed with funding from Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Wind Energy Technology Office (WETO).