Improve floris dataframe interpolation function

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Feature or improvement description Split interpolation into 2D and 3D grid, and general pandas improvements to replace manually adding rows with pd.concat() function. Significant speed-ups achieved.

Related issue, if one exists N/A

Impacted areas of the software floris_tools

Additional supporting information Found a significant speed-up with in-house work. Found it hard to reproduce, but see code below:

Test results, if applicable Here's a minimal example to reproduce:

import os
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from time import perf_counter as timerpc

from flasc.floris_tools import interpolate_floris_from_df_approx
from flasc.utilities_examples import load_floris_artificial as load_floris

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Create fake df_fi_approx table
    wd_mesh, ws_mesh = np.meshgrid(
        np.arange(0.0, 360.0, 1.0),
        np.arange(1.0, 30.0, 1.0)
    )
    N = len(wd_mesh.flatten())
    fake_power = 1500.0 + 30.0 * np.random.randn(N, 100)
    df_fi_approx = pd.concat([
        pd.DataFrame(
            {
                "wd": wd_mesh.flatten(),
                "ws": ws_mesh.flatten(),
                "ti": 0.08 * np.ones_like(ws_mesh.flatten())}
        ),
        pd.DataFrame(fake_power, columns=[f"pow_{ti}" for ti in range(100)])
    ], axis=1)

    # Now interpolate from table
    N = int(1e8)  # Number of measurements
    df = pd.DataFrame(
        {
            "wd": 360.0 * np.random.uniform(N),
            "ws": 1.01 + 28.0 * np.random.uniform(N),
            "ti": 0.08 * np.ones(N),
        }
    )

    # Perform interpolation
    t0 = timerpc()
    df = interpolate_floris_from_df_approx(df, df_fi_approx, mirror_nans=False)
    dt = timerpc() - t0
    print(f"Completed 'interpolate_floris_from_df_approx' call in {dt:.3f} seconds.")

This times at 41 seconds with the new code, and 50 seconds in the old code. So about a 20% improvement in this simplified example. Found a factor 3-4 speed-up in my in-house codes though.

NREL / flasc

Improve floris dataframe interpolation function #124