Layout optimization for maximizing wind farm power production using sequential convex programming

J Park, KH Law - Applied energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper describes an efficient method for optimizing the placement of wind turbines to
maximize the expected wind farm power. In a wind farm, the energy production of the …

Toward efficient optimization of wind farm layouts: Utilizing exact gradient information

D Guirguis, DA Romero, CH Amon - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WFLO) problem has attracted a lot of attention
from researchers and industry practitioners, as it has been proven that better placement of …

Evolutionary computation for wind farm layout optimization

D Wilson, S Rodrigues, C Segura, I Loshchilov… - Renewable energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of the second edition of the Wind Farm Layout Optimization
Competition, which was held at the 22nd Genetic and Evolutionary Computation …

Exploiting Hardware and Software Advances for Quadratic Models of Wind Farm Layout Optimization

A Senderovich, J Zhang, E Cohen, JC Beck - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key aspect of the design of a wind farm is the wind farm layout optimization (WFLO)
problem: given a wind farm site and information about the wind patterns, the problem is to …

A hybrid extended pattern search/genetic algorithm for multi-stage wind farm optimization

B DuPont, J Cagan - Optimization and Engineering, 2016 - Springer
This purpose of this work is to explore means of optimizing multi-stage wind farms using two
derivative-free optimization methods: a hybrid Extended Pattern Search/Genetic Algorithm …

Informed mutation of wind farm layouts to maximise energy harvest

M Mayo, M Daoud - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Correct placement of turbines in a wind farm is a critical issue in wind farm design
optimisation. While traditional “trial and error”-based approaches suffice for small layouts …

A coupled model of global energy production and ERoEI applied to photovoltaic and wind, an estimation of net production

A Lamorlette - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy production modelling essentially follows bottom-up
approaches, based on physical considerations. These models focus mostly on the …

Fast numerical modelling method for wind flow investigation based on depth-averaged equations

A Avramenko, O Agafonova, J Sorvari… - WIT Transactions on …, 2017 - books.google.com
An important phase of wind farm design is solving the wind farm layout optimization
problem, which consists in optimally positioning the turbines within the wind farm so that the …

An adaptive model-based mutation operator for the wind farm layout optimisation problem

M Mayo, M Daoud - 2015 IEEE International Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel mutation operator for the wind farm layout optimisation problem is proposed and
tested. When a wind farm layout is simulated, statistics such as an individual turbine's wake …

BlockCopy-based operators for evolving efficient wind farm layouts

M Mayo, C Zheng - 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel search operator, BlockCopy, is proposed for efficiently solving the wind farm layout
optimisation problem. BlockCopy, which can be used either as mutation or a crossover …