Abstract. This paper presents a heuristic building block for wind farm layout optimization algorithms. For each pair of wake-interacting turbines, vector is defined. Its magnitude proportional to the speed deficit waked turbine due waking turbine. direction chosen from inter-turbine, downwind, or crosswind directions. These vectors can be combined all turbines and averaged over resource obtain ...

Abstract Discontinuity layout optimization (DLO) is a powerful numerical limit analysis technique that can be used to identify the collapse load and associated failure mechanism of solid or structure. The method successfully automates traditional ‘upper bound’ plasticity, with applications including metal extrusion problems, where die forces are sought, geotechnical engineering stability founda...

This paper presents a method for determination of optimum positions of single wind turbines within the wind farms installed on arbitrary configured terrains, in order to achieve their maximum production effectiveness. This method is based on use of the genetic algorithm as optimization technique. The wind turbine aerodynamic calculation is unsteady, based on the blade modeled as a vortex lattic...