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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
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Related Publications

This section includes publications relying on Topfarm or related topics like optimization of: layout, visual impact, noise, etc.

2025
  • 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
2024
  • 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
2023
  • Stochastic gradient descent for wind farm optimization
2022
  • Wind farm optimization with multiple hub heights using gradient-based methods
2020
  • Wind farm layout optimization with load constraints using surrogate modelling
  • Integrated wind farm layout and control optimization
2019
  • Blade erosion in wind farm layout and/or control optimization
  • Optimal open loop wind farm control
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