Developing a flexible platform for optimal engineering design of commercial wind farms

ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2011

Volumn , Issue PARTS A, B, AND C, 2011, Pages 2113-2124

  Chowdhury, Souma ^a,c   Zhang, Jie ^a,c   Messac, Achille ^b,c   Castillo, Luciano ^a,c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy; Mixed discrete optimization; Particle Swarm; Turbine; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; ENERGY; MIXED-DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL ENGINEERING DESIGN; PARTICLE SWARM; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION(RBF); WIND FARM; WIND FARM LAYOUT OPTIMIZATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; DESIGN; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84881141435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2011-54503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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