Review of performance optimization techniques applied to wind turbines

A Chehouri, R Younes, A Ilinca, J Perron - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the optimization techniques and strategies applied to wind
turbine performance optimization. The topic is addressed by identifying the most significant …

Enhancing sustainability and energy efficiency in smart factories: A review

Y Meng, Y Yang, H Chung, PH Lee, C Shao - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
With the rapid development of sensing, communication, computing technologies, and
analytics techniques, today's manufacturing is marching towards a new generation of …

Power extraction efficiency optimization of horizontal-axis wind turbines through optimizing control parameters of yaw control systems using an intelligent method

D Song, X Fan, J Yang, A Liu, S Chen, YH Joo - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
To optimize the power extraction from the wind, horizontal-axis wind turbines are normally
manipulated by the yaw control system to track the wind direction. How is the potential …

Uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis of composite wind turbine blades

M Thapa, S Missoum - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a framework for uncertainty quantification (UQ) and global sensitivity analysis
(GSA) of composite wind turbine blades is presented. Because of the presence of …

Robust optimization of a marine current turbine using a novel robustness criterion

MS Karimi, R Mohammadi, M Raisee… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present paper aims to establish a systematic robust optimization framework for the
hydrodynamic performance of marine current turbines against uncertain conditions. To this …

Objectives and constraints for wind turbine optimization

S Andrew Ning, R Damiani… - Journal of Solar …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Efficient extraction of wind energy is a complex, multidisciplinary process. This paper
examines common objectives used in wind turbine optimization problems. The focus is not …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of uncertainties in positioning of PIV plane on validation of CFD results of a high-head Francis turbine model

S Salehi, H Nilsson - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the design of modern hydraulic
turbines has increased and matured significantly the last decades. More recently, CFD is …

Wind turbine blade optimisation with individual pitch and trailing edge flap control

ZJ Chen, KA Stol, BR Mace - Renewable energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Individual pitch control and trailing edge flaps have been shown to be capable of reducing
flapwise fatigue loads on wind turbine blades, with research to date focusing on controller …

Surrogate-based stochastic optimization of horizontal-axis wind turbine composite blades

M Thapa, S Missoum - Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, a framework for stochastic optimization of horizontal-axis wind turbine
composite blades is presented. It is well known that the structural responses of the wind …

A hybrid multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for wind-turbine blade optimization

M Sessarego, KR Dixon, DE Rival… - Engineering …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
A concurrent-hybrid non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (hybrid NSGA-II) has been
developed and applied to the simultaneous optimization of the annual energy production …