Towards realistic designs of wind farm layouts: Application of a novel placement selector approach

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 81, Issue , 2014, Pages 242-254

  Rahbari, Omid ^a   Vafaeipour, Majid ^a   Fazelpour, Farivar ^a   Feidt, Michel ^b   Rosen, Marc A ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithm; Multivariate wind distribution; Turbine placement and selection; Wake effect; Wind energy; Wind farm layout optimization

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; WAKES;

CANDIDATE SELECTION; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; LOAD-BEARING CAPACITY; OPTIMAL LAYOUT DESIGN; QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; WAKE EFFECT; WIND DISTRIBUTION; WIND FARM LAYOUT OPTIMIZATIONS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84896508885     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.02.010     Document Type: Article

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