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Feature or improvement description
This PR adds visualization of shared mooring lines from MoorDyn at the FAST.Farm level. This is a feature that several have requested.
Visualization of shared moorings is at the FAST.Farm timestep rate
NOTE: there are input files. There is a new line in the FAST.Farm input file for the
WrMooringVis
flag:Related issue, if one exists
None
Impacted areas of the software
Visualization from FAST.Farm only
Known issues with this PR
Test results, if applicable
New test case for two IEA 15 MW turbines in a shared mooring system. This case highlights that there is an issue with the initialization of the mooring lines (one turbine is rotated by 180 degrees, but this rotation is not factored into the initial relaxation calculations).
Figure 1: Turbine 1, on the left, has a platform rotation of 180 degrees. MoorDyn is calculating the initial relaxation of these mooring lines with the platform rotation of 0 degrees, so the lines do not render well on the first timestep.