Flexcom > New Features! > Flexcom 2025.1

Full details on all of the new features is contained in the Flexcom 2025.1 Newsletter.

Highlights include…

Wind Turbine Modelling

•New flexible blade model, accounting for blade deformations, rotor inertia, and low speed shaft torque

•Aerodynamic and control variables now available in Summary Postprocessing

•Updated version of OpenFAST (3.5.3) now coupled with Flexcom

•Printout of aerodynamic forces in OUT file for detailed scrutiny

•New example added to the Wind Energy section: Example L5 – Stiesdal Tetraspar

Zero-Gap Guides

•Stiffness based contact model, contact zone input (also added for flat guides), advanced friction model, node rotation lock and display diameter. All available via *GUIDE.

Postprocessing

•Python interface

•Sidewall pressure

•Nodal displacements in a local axis system

•Summary postprocessing with smart units on plots

Miscellaneous

•Element twist feature

•Dynamic buoyancy

•Variable time step, as a function of time

•Support for Shear7 v4.12

•New Fortran compiler

•Licence Monitoring

•New example: Example J5 – Tower Crane & Pulleys