A review of methodological approaches for the design and optimization of wind farms

JF Herbert-Acero, O Probst, PE Réthoré, GC Larsen… - Energies, 2014 - mdpi.com
This article presents a review of the state of the art of the Wind Farm Design and
Optimization (WFDO) problem. The WFDO problem refers to a set of advanced planning …

A review and recent developments in the optimal wind-turbine micro-siting problem

JS González, MB Payán, JMR Santos… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the current state of the art solutions to the problem of wind
farm optimal design. The aim of this work is to present the problem by identifying the most …

A new mathematical programming approach to optimize wind farm layouts

SDO Turner, DA Romero, PY Zhang, CH Amon… - Renewable Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
The optimal placement of turbines in a wind farm is critical to the maximization of power
production. In this paper, we develop a new mathematical programming approach for wind …

Wind farm layout optimization on complex terrains–Integrating a CFD wake model with mixed-integer programming

JYJ Kuo, DA Romero, JC Beck, CH Amon - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, wind farm optimization has received much attention in the literature. The aim
of wind farm design is to maximize energy production while minimizing costs. The wind farm …

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 …

Iterative non-deterministic algorithms in on-shore wind farm design: A brief survey

SA Khan, S Rehman - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Wind farm layout design is a complex optimization problem consisting of number of design
objectives and constraints. Different variations of this problem have been solved using …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-objective optimization of wind farm layouts–Complexity, constraint handling and scalability

S Rodrigues, P Bauer, PAN Bosman - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Currently, Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) are designed to achieve high turbine
density so as to reduce costs. However, due to wake interferences, densely packing turbines …

An advanced modeling system for optimization of wind farm layout and wind turbine sizing using a multi-level extended pattern search algorithm

B DuPont, J Cagan, P Moriarty - Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents a system of modeling advances that can be applied in the
computational optimization of wind plants. These modeling advances include accurate cost …

Investigating the Power-COE trade-off for wind farm layout optimization considering commercial turbine selection and hub height variation

M Abdulrahman, D Wood - Renewable energy, 2017 - Elsevier
New aspects were added to the wind farm layout optimization problem by including
commercial turbine selection and a realistic representation for the thrust coefficient. The …

The impact of land use constraints in multi-objective energy-noise wind farm layout optimization

SYD Sorkhabi, DA Romero, GK Yan, MD Gu, J Moran… - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Recently the environmental impact of onshore wind farms is receiving major attention from
both governments and wind farm designers. As land is more extensively exploited for wind …