OpenWindPower vs. SimulationX vs. Virtual REX vs. dbForge Data Generator for MySQL Comparison Chart

OpenWindPower is an offshore wind turbine analysis software developed by Bentley Systems, designed to support both fixed foundation and floating platform projects. The software enables users to explore design alternatives, predict performance, and deliver safe, cost-effective offshore wind farm structures. For fixed foundation projects, OpenWindPower provides comprehensive capabilities for the design and analysis of offshore wind turbine foundation structures, considering wave, wind, and turbine mechanical loading to predict both fatigue and extreme loads for the substructure and nonlinear soil foundation. In floating platform projects, the software offers advanced modeling capabilities to design 3D hydrodynamic and structural models subjected to wave, current, wind, and turbine mechanical loads, facilitating time-domain simulations that compute sea pressures and inertial loads for detailed structural analysis.

Electromagnetic sensors include a “front-end” that generates and receives the electromagnetic waves through a subsystem known as a Receiver/EXciter (REX). They also include a “back-end” that performs signal and data processing, typically implemented in software. These separate subsystems must be designed and developed separately, then integrated together. The development of the overall sensor is slowed and complicated by the problems that show up for the first time at integration testing. This is due in large part to the interdependencies of these subsystems that cannot be effectively tested during development. Later, software patches, configuration upgrades, waveform changes, and technology refresh become substantially more expensive because they can only be verified by traveling to the operational site to connect with the actual front-end hardware. The Virtual Receiver/EXciter (VREX) addresses these challenges through the use of a simulated front-end.