TOPFARM
Contents
Installation Guide
Pre-Installation
Simple Installation
Developer Installation
User Guide
TopFarm Problem
Design Variables
Cost Component
DTU Cost Model
Drivers
Constraints
Plotting Component
Basic Examples
Design variables
Constraints
Drivers
Problems
Advanced Examples
Turbine hub height optimization
Unconstrained wake steering optimization
Optimization with bathymetry and max water depth constraint
Optimization with exclusion zones
Grid layout optimization
Nested turbine type specific optimization
Turbine type and position optimization with type specific boundary constraints
Smart start with different predefined turbine types
Layout Optimization with SGD driver
Optimization of wind farm including neighbouring turbines
Joint Multi Wind Farm Optimization
Cost Models
Cables
API Reference
TopFarmProblem
Cost Component
Constraints
Drivers
Plotting Components
Publications
Tool Publications
TopFarm2: Plant-level optimization tool developed by DTU Wind and Energy Systems.
Theses
Discrete optimization for down selection of positions in offshore wind farm layouts
Coupled optimization of visual impact and LCOE of near-shore wind farms: Insights from a Danish case study
Influence of wind turbine size on Levelized Cost of Energy of the offshore wind farm Energy Island Bornholm
Influence of Global Warming Potential taxation on Levelized Cost of Energy and Life Cycle Assessment of Off-shore Wind Farms
Wind farm production maximization using combined layout and wake steering optimization under load constraint
Wind farm optimization to maximize AEP and energy density under loads constraints
Layout optimization of floating offshore wind farms with shared anchors
Cost optimization of catenary mooring for floating offshore wind farms using shared anchors with outlook to integration of this in farm design optimization
Wind Farm Optimization Strategies
Related Publications
Wind Farm Layout Optimization Accounting for Uncertainty in Model Selection
Optimizing the layout of floating wind farms in Crete: A combined LCOE and visual impact minimization
Need For Speed: Fast Wind Farm Optimization
Wind Farm Control Optimisation Under Load Constraints Via Surrogate Modelling
Gradient-based wind farm layout optimization with inclusion and exclusion zones
Speeding up large-wind-farm layout optimization using gradients, parallelization, and a heuristic algorithm for the initial layout
Stochastic gradient descent for wind farm optimization
Wind farm optimization with multiple hub heights using gradient-based methods
Wind farm layout optimization with load constraints using surrogate modelling
Integrated wind farm layout and control optimization
Blade erosion in wind farm layout and/or control optimization
Optimal open loop wind farm control
TOPFARM
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TopFarmProblem
Cost Component
Constraints
Drivers
Plotting Components