Variable neighborhood search for large offshore wind farm layout optimization

D Cazzaro, D Pisinger - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The task of the offshore Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem (WFLOP) is to place n wind
turbines at a subset of k available positions to maximize power production and minimize …

Review on optimisation methods of wind farm array under three classical wind condition problems

F Azlan, JC Kurnia, BT Tan, MZ Ismadi - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
The arrangement of wind turbines in clusters presents two noteworthy issues:(1) diminished
power generation brought about by wake wind speed deficits and (2) expanded unique …

Wind farm layout optimization using adaptive evolutionary algorithm with Monte Carlo Tree Search reinforcement learning

F Bai, X Ju, S Wang, W Zhou, F Liu - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent years have witnessed an enormous growth of wind farm capacity worldwide. Due to
the wake effect, the velocity of incoming wind is reduced for the wind turbines in the …

Wind farm layout optimization for wake effect uniformity

K Yang, G Kwak, K Cho, J Huh - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The basic objective of wind farm layout optimization is to maximize the energy produced by
wind farms. However, when wind turbines are arranged in a limited space like an onshore …

Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WindFLO): An advanced framework for fast wind farm analysis and optimization

SR Reddy - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A new framework for Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WindFLO) is developed to accelerate
the design of wind farms. The framework provides a large set of analytical wake models and …

A review of physical and numerical modeling techniques for horizontal-axis wind turbine wakes

MM Amiri, M Shadman, SF Estefen - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wake effects within a wind farm are identified as one of the main factors impacting wind farm
power production and fatigue loading on wind turbines' structural elements. An efficient …

A novel approach for wind farm micro-siting in complex terrain based on an improved genetic algorithm

W Hu, Q Yang, HP Chen, K Guo, T Zhou, M Liu… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel approach for wind farm micro-siting in complex terrain based on
an improved Genetic Algorithm (GA). Firstly, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations …

[HTML][HTML] Realistic wind farm layout optimization through genetic algorithms using a Gaussian wake model

N Kirchner-Bossi, F Porté-Agel - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WFLO) can be useful to minimize power losses associated
with turbine wakes in wind farms. This work presents a new evolutionary WFLO …

Multi-objective turbine allocation on a wind farm site

AE Dinçer, A Demir, K Yılmaz - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Multi-Objective Turbine Allocation (MOTA) method is introduced as a novel
approach for wind farm layout optimization and site selection. By incorporating Geographic …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy of WRF for prediction of operational wind farm data and assessment of influence of upwind farms on power production

G Cuevas-Figueroa, PK Stansby, T Stallard - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Numerical Weather Prediction models such as Weather Research and Forecasting
(WRF) are increasingly used to inform planning of both on-shore and off-shore wind-farms …