Optimal placement of wind turbines: A Monte Carlo approach with large historical data set

2010 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, EIT2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sood, Priti ^a   Winstead, Vincent ^a   Steevens, Paul ^a  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matlab programming; Optimization; Wake effect; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

BEST CHOICE; ENERGY LOSS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; HISTORICAL DATA; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MATLAB PROGRAMMING; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; OPTIMAL PLACEMENTS; OPTIMAL POSITION; OPTIMAL POSITIONING; OUTPUT POWER; RANDOM SEARCHES; WAKE EFFECT; WIND ENERGY; WIND FARM; WIND MILL; WIND PARK;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 78649292515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EIT.2010.5612130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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