FOXES: Farm Optimization and eXtended yield Evaluation Software

The Farm Evaluation and eXtended yield Evaluation Software (foxes) is a Python package that calculates wind farm results such as power production or wind turbine wake effects. The meteorological input data can be a timeseries or statistical data like wind speed histograms, wind roses or any other distribution. Uniform inflow fields are supported as well as horizontal profiles and three dimensional flow fields from other sources, for example wind fields from mesoscale weather models or wind atlases (Dörenkämper et al., 2020). Typical applications are wind farm optimization (e.g., layout optimization or wake steering), wind farm pre- and post-construction analyses; wake model studies, comparison and validation; and wind farm simulations invoking complex model interactions.