Sections
Getting Started
  • Work through the tutorial available on the downloads page.
  • Read and/or subscribe to the support forums.
  • Peruse some images of the software in action.
  • Watch an instructional video 
Enterprise Version
A commercial version of openWind is available for clients who require:
  • Deep Array Wake Models
  • optimization for cost of energy
  • shadow-flicker
  • multi-threaded wind-flow calculation
  • sector management
  • optimization enhancements
  • grid layout tool
  • stream-lined interface
  • authenticated reports
Licensing
Please contact the openWind team regarding:
  • developing products from the openWind codebase
  • partnering with us to develop specialist modules

Contribute

Please see the developer forums for information on how to contribute or in which areas we are looking for help. Whilst we are very happy for you to assign copyright to us, contributions of code are generally accepted under one of the following two licenses. In this case you keep your copyright but we get to do what we need to do. We will of course never allow code from you to be incorporated into proprietary software without also including it in the open source version.

BSD License

The Berkeley software Distribution license is an academic license written by the University of Los Angeles at Berkeley in order to distribute their version of Unix.

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MIT License

The MIT License is another academic license written by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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