Solving the turbine positioning problem for large offshore wind farms by simulated annealing

Wind Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-298

  Rivas, Rajai Aghabi ^a   Clausen, Jens ^b   Hansen, Kurt S ^b   Jensen, Leo E ^c  

^a Wind Energy Department   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mathematical modelling; N.O.Jensen model; Offshore wind farms; Optimization; Wake

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; WAKES;

GRID LAYOUT; LOCAL SEARCH OPERATION; OPTIMAL LAYOUT; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; REAL-LIFE TEST; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; WIND FARM; WIND RESOURCES;

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POSITIONING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOFTWARE; WAKE; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 70349454007     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524x.33.3.287     Document Type: Article

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