diff --git a/docs/changelogs/v4.0.0.md b/docs/changelogs/v4.0.0.md index 5b0f1f88d..b7254dd88 100644 --- a/docs/changelogs/v4.0.0.md +++ b/docs/changelogs/v4.0.0.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ See GitHub Actions # Release Overview ------ -This release includes many architectural changes and physics improvements from the OpenFAST 3.5 series. Improvements and new features include large platform yaw dynamics, reduced order structural and aero modules, fluid-structure coupling with _AMR-Wind_, wake-added turbulence for _FAST.Farm_, linearization for MHK turbines, aeromap calculations, an updated Python library for _OpenFAST_ file handling, revised wind and wave data handling, removal of _AeroDyn14_, several new modules, and many bug fixes. The number of changes to input files is very large, so we recommend reviewing the changelog below and notes in https://openfast.readthedocs.io/en/main/source/user/api_change.html for specifics about which files have changes. +This release includes many architectural changes and physics improvements from the OpenFAST 3.5 series. Improvements and new features include large platform yaw dynamics, reduced order structural and aero modules (_Simplified-ElastoDyn_ (SED) and _AeroDisk_ (ADsk)), fluid-structure coupling with _AMR-Wind_, wake-added turbulence for _FAST.Farm_, linearization for MHK turbines, aeromap calculations, an updated Python library for _OpenFAST_ file handling, revised wind and wave data handling, removal of _AeroDyn14_, many hydrodynamic improvements including the splitting of the wave field (new _SeaState_ (SS) module) from HydroDyn, and many bug fixes. The number of changes to input files is very large, so we recommend reviewing the changelog below and notes in https://openfast.readthedocs.io/en/main/source/user/api_change.html for specifics about which files have changes. ### Contribution Acknowledgements @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ _AeroDyn_ improvements include a new input file, nacelle drag, visualization imp ### ElastoDyn -_ElastoDyn_ includes a new yaw friction model, new output channels, several bugfixes, and code cleanup. +_ElastoDyn_ includes a new yaw friction model, new output channels, new platform cross-inertia terms, several bugfixes, and code cleanup. * Input file changes #2017 Yaw friction implementation (@abhineet-gupta, @kevo331, @rdamiani) @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ _ExtLoads_ is a new module for blade resolved fluid-structure interaction with C ### HydroDyn -The _HydroDyn_ module was completely restructured with wave dynamics split out into a new module, _SeaState_ (documented below). _HydroDyn_ now accesses wave-field data through a pointer to the data held in the _SeaState_ module. Other improvements include large yaw angle dynamics, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. +The _HydroDyn_ module was completely restructured with wave dynamics split out into a new module, _SeaState_ (documented below). _HydroDyn_ now accesses wave-field data through a pointer to the data held in the _SeaState_ module. Other improvements include large yaw angle dynamics, wave loads at the displaced position in surge/sway, MacCamy-Fuchs diffraction for strip-theory members, wave stretching (various models) with load smoothing, constrained New Wave theory, new strip-theory hydrostatic solution valid for near-horizontal members at the free surface, and bug fixes. * _Major_ input file changes #1578 More updates to the Morison module (@luwang00) @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ The _Simplified-ElastoDyn_ module (_SED_) is a one degree of freedom rigid struc ### SubDyn -_SubDyn_ improvements include a new 6x6 spring element, removal of some stiffness terms for cable pretension, and a few bug fixes. +_SubDyn_ improvements include a new 6x6 spring element, removal of some stiffness terms for cable pretension, a few bug fixes, and code cleanup. * Input file changes #1889 New spring element in SubDyn: 6 by 6 stiffness matrix (@RBergua)