An extended pattern search approach to wind farm layout optimization

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 1, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 677-686

  Du Pont, Bryony L ^a   Cagan, Jonathan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC EFFECT; CLOSE PROXIMITY; EVALUATION MODELS; LOCAL OPTIMA; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PATTERN SEARCH; PATTERN SEARCH ALGORITHM; POWER CAPABILITY; POWER DEVELOPMENT; POWER OUT PUT; SEARCH METHOD; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; STOCHASTIC CHARACTERISTIC; STOCHASTICITY; TEST CASE; TOTAL POWER; TURBINE BLADE; TURBULENT WAKE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYOUT; WAKE MODEL; WIND FARM; WIND FARM LAYOUTS; WIND SPEED;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WAKES; WIND POWER;

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EID: 80054978972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2010-28748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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