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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | New insights into position optimization of wave energy converters using hybrid local search |
Author: | Neshat, M. Alexander, B. Sergiienko, N.Y. Wagner, M. |
Citation: | Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2020; 59:100744-1-100744-18 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
ISSN: | 2210-6502 2210-6510 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Mehdi Neshat, Bradley Alexander, Nataliia Y. Sergiienko, Markus Wagner |
Abstract: | Renewable energy will play a pivotal role in meeting future global energy demand. Of current renewable sources, wave energy offers enormous potential for growth. This research investigates the optimisation of the placement of oscillating buoy-type wave energy converters (WECs). This work explores the design of a wave farm consisting of an array of fully submerged three-tether buoys. In a wave farm, buoy positions strongly determine the farm’s output. Optimising the buoy positions is a challenging research problem due to complex and extensive interactions (constructive and destructive) between buoys. This research focuses on maximising the power output of the farm through the placement of buoys in a size-constrained environment, and we propose a new hybrid approach mixing local search, using a surrogate power model, and numerical optimisation methods. The proposed hybrid method is compared with other state-of-the-art search methods in five different wave scenarios – one simplified irregular wave model and four real wave regimes. The new hybrid methods outperform well-known previous heuristic methods in terms of both quality of achieved solutions and the convergence-rate of search in all tested wave regimes. The best performing method in real-wave scenarios uses the active set non-linear optimisation method to tune final placements. The effectiveness of this method seems to stem for its capacity to search over a larger area than other compared tuning methods. |
Keywords: | Renewable energy; Hybrid local search; Position optimisation; Wave energy converters |
Description: | Available online 26 July 2020 |
Rights: | © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.swevo.2020.100744 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2020.100744 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Computer Science publications |
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