An extended pattern search approach to wind farm layout optimization

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

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

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WAKES; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

LAYOUT PROBLEMS; PATTERN SEARCH; PATTERN SEARCH ALGORITHM; POWER; STOCHASTIC CHARACTERISTIC; WIND FARM; WIND FARM LAYOUT OPTIMIZATIONS; WIND FARM LAYOUTS; WIND SPEED;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864351728     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006997     Document Type: Article

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