A mechanistic semi-empirical wake interaction model for wind farm layout optimization

A Two-Stage Placement Algorithm with Multi-Objective Optimization and Group Decision Making

“…This is preferred case for commercial wind farms because it reduces installation costs, maintenance cost, etc., [4]. Like many other published results for WFLOP [10,19,26,38], the testing of the proposed algorithm is done for a rectangular wind farm site. The rectangular shape could be quite practical for offshore wind farms and for onshore wind farms located on flat terrain.…”

“… Most of the WFLOP results are related with preliminary fixed number of turbines [5,10,11,19,28,36,39]. It is not clear how this number is determined and if it is optimal for the considered wind site area.…”

“…From the managerial point of view it is hard to take decision on the basis of single alternative. More substantiated decision would be reached if different design alternatives conforming to different design requirements are compared to get to the best design solution [19]. The design of wind farm is multidimensional process and involves different aspects -economic, technical, environmental, social, etc.…”

“…Many research articles are subject of Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem (WFLOP) and different approaches and various optimization algorithms are proposed as: genetic algorithms [4,15,24,26,40], pattern search algorithm [7], evolutionary algorithm [25,35,39]. An alternative approach to WFLOP is using of the mathematical programming optimization methods [3,5,6,19,27,34]. Due to the complex and multi-disciplinary nature of WFLOP many conflicting objectives are to be involved during the design process.…”

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

“…Deterministic optimization approaches such as mixed-integer programming (MIP) [2,3,[20][21][22] have been shown to be promising in solving WFLO problems. These models can provide global solutions and optimality bounds for relatively small problems.…”