Offshore Wind Farm Layout Optimization via Differential Evolution



Título del documento: Offshore Wind Farm Layout Optimization via Differential Evolution
Revue: Computación y sistemas
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Número de sistema: 000560354
ISSN: 1405-5546
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de Tonala, México
2Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, México
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Periodo: Jul-Sep
Volumen: 22
Número: 3
Paginación: 929-941
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Resumen en inglés The Wind Farm Layout Problem (WFLP) consists in the placement of eolic generators (either in a grid, or at any position) into a delimited terrain. Several factors are taken into account to solve the WFLP, which include produced energy, costs - environmental, installation, maintenance, etc-, average useful life of turbines, among other. Likewise, optimization techniques involve the use of one or more objective functions, considering traditional as well as evolutionary approaches. Differential Evolution (DE) is an algorithm proposed for global optimization, whose operators are both simple to program and to utilize, still providing good convergence properties. The original authors of DE suggested its first five variants, which are: best/1/bin, best/2/bin, current − to − best/1/bin, rand/1/bin, and rand/2/bin. In this article it is proposed the comparison of five DE variants when they are used to solve 25 different instances of the WFLP; experimental results show that DE/best/1/bin outperforms the remaining algorithms in terms of convergence velocity as well as in the quality of the obtained wind-farm.
Disciplinas: Ingeniería
Palabras clave: Ingeniería de energéticos
Keyword: Evolutionary algorithm,
Differential evolution,
Optimization,
Wind farm layout problem,
Energy engineering
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