A Review of Methodological Approaches for the Design and Optimization of Wind Farms

Date

2014-10-29

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Herbert-Acero, José F.
Probst, Oliver
Réthoré, Pierre-Elouan
Larsen, Gunner Chr.
Castillo-Villar, Krystel K.

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This article presents a review of the state of the art of the Wind Farm Design and Optimization (WFDO) problem. The WFDO problem refers to a set of advanced planning actions needed to extremize the performance of wind farms, which may be composed of a few individual Wind Turbines (WTs) up to thousands of WTs. The WFDO problem has been investigated in different scenarios, with substantial differences in main objectives, modelling assumptions, constraints, and numerical solution methods. The aim of this paper is: (1) to present an exhaustive survey of the literature covering the full span of the subject, an analysis of the state-of-the-art models describing the performance of wind farms as well as its extensions, and the numerical approaches used to solve the problem; (2) to provide an overview of the available knowledge and recent progress in the application of such strategies to real onshore and offshore wind farms; and (3) to propose a comprehensive agenda for future research.

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wind farm design, micro-siting, wind farm layout, wind farm performance modeling, nonlinear optimization, metaheuristic optimization

Citation

Energies 7 (11): 6930-7016 (2014)

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Mechanical Engineering