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Published September 23, 2025 | Version v4.5
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NREL/floris: v4.5

Authors/Creators

  • 1. @NREL
  • 2. National Renewable Energy Lab
  • 3. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • 4. Caltech
  • 5. Shell
  • 6. WindESCo
  • 7. CENER
  • 8. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
  • 9. NREL
  • 10. Technical University of Denmark
  • 11. Equinor

Description

FLORIS v4.5 brings in various new features, user interface improvements, and bug fixes. In particular, check out new options for interpolation of heterogeneous wind maps; turbulence intensity sampling; and various user interface and modeling improvements. Special thanks to our three new contributors on this release, as well as our ongoing contributors!

New features

  • Add Nearest-Neighbor interpolation to heterogeneous wind map by @Bartdoekemeijer in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1025
  • TI sampling at arbitrary points by @hannahgielen in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1129

Modeling improvements

  • [BUGFIX] Tilt cosine law correction by @mkrause-strath in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1126

User interface improvements

  • [BUGFIX] Improve handling of multidimensional turbine conditions by @misi9170 in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/996
  • Enable sample_flow_at_points with heterogeneity by @misi9170 in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1110
  • Add turbine_average_velocities property to UncertainFlorisModel by @paulf81 in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1135

Performance improvements

  • Set keepdims to True so that we don't have to add again those dimensions by @RRiva in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1120

Packaging updates

  • Add WETO Stack note by @rafmudaf in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1112

General bug fixes

  • [BUGFIX] Specify resolution in scipy yaw optimization regression test by @misi9170 in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1136
  • [BUGFIX] Fix incorrect implementation in geometric yaw optimization by @misi9170 in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1143

New Contributors

  • @RRiva made their first contribution in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1120
  • @hannahgielen made their first contribution in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1129
  • @mkrause-strath made their first contribution in https://github.com/NREL/floris/pull/1126

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NREL/floris/compare/v4.4.2...v4.5

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