v4.2

FLORIS v4.2 brings further new features to FLORIS, along with some performance enhancements and bug fixes/minor improvements

New features

• Implement TurbOPark as a Gaussian model by @JasperShell in #907
• Add WRG file support to FLORIS by @paulf81 in #919
• Add gridded layout optimizer by @misi9170 in #976
• New parallel option that is fully consistent with FlorisModel by @misi9170 in #982

Performance enhancements

• Speed up turbine loading operation by @misi9170 in #966

Functional enhancements

• make plotting the points of HetMap optional by @paulf81 in #957
• Add capabilities to parallel_floris_model by @paulf81 in #967
• Add features to UncertainFlorisModel by @paulf81 in #975
• Improved Wind Rose Plot (v2) by @paulf81 and @cfrontin in #969
• Add flow visualization to wake steering example by @misi9170 in #1006

Bug fixes

• [BUGFIX] Fix documentation examples build by @paulf81 in #960
• [BUGFIX] Fix bug in check_turbine example (not resetting operation) by @misi9170 in #962
• [BUGFIX] Gridded layout opt incorrectly generating spanning grid by @misi9170 in #984
• [BUGFIX] Control setpoints and wind data set on FlorisModel copied into ParFlorisModel by @misi9170 in #997
• Set ref wind height to -1 for turboparkgauss.yaml by @paulf81 in #999
• [BUGFIX] Warn users if the turbine_type is set without setting reference_wind_height by @misi9170 in #1000

New Contributors

• @JasperShell made their first contribution in #907
• @cfrontin made their first contribution in #969

Full Changelog: v4.1.1...v4.2