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[Edgar Barba]

Hello. I'm simulating in ansys fluent a steady 3D case from which I'm interested in obtaining the wind velocity profile that is obtained as the wake a few meters away of an object. I need this velocity profile to introduce it as the inlet profile for a Wind Turbine calculation in Orcaflex or OpenFast. The problem is that I can only find information about introducing the wind as a .bts file, in those programs, created with a tool called TurbSim. 

Is there any way that I can export a plane profile from ansys (.prof) of the velocity magnitude, and convert it to .bts or some way to introduce it as an Inlet boundary condition on those programs?

Thank you. 

[Rob]

There are a few options for getting data out of Fluent, profiles and File>Export being the two main ones. As I don't know what a .bts file looks like I can't advise further.