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Offshore Wind Farm Optimization: Layout Design and Wake Effect Modeling
Kwame Asante, Abena Mensah
In: Sustainable Energy Systems and Technologies
This chapter addresses the optimization of offshore wind farm layouts to maximize annual energy production while minimizing wake losses. We formulate the layout problem as a mixed-integer nonlinear program and solve it using a hybrid genetic algorithm combined with computational fluid dynamics wake modeling. Results for North Sea case studies demonstrate 12-18% improvement over baseline designs.