Amirkabir University of Technology Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2008-6032 52 9 2019 03 20 Optimization of the Turbines Locating in the Wind Farm Optimization of the Turbines Locating in the Wind Farm 2387 2402 3349 10.22060/mej.2019.15150.6043 FA Seyed Mojtaba Varedi Kulaee 0000-0002-7427-2127 Masood Abdolmohammadi Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology Habib Ahmadi Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology Mostafa Nazari Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran. Journal Article 2018 10 17 Nowadays, with regard to the reduction of fossil fuels and the management of their   use, wind power is now rising as one of the most efficient renewable energy sources. Moreover, wind farms, which include sets of turbines in a farm, have become more developed and their designs and optimizations have risen recently. In this paper, the wind turbines are located in the wind farm and the effects of their positions and arrangements on the production power of the whole system are investigated. For this purpose, a square farm is considered and, having information on how the winds and wind speeds in each case, will extract the optimum location of turbines in the farm using optimization algorithms. The main goal of this research is to increase the total amount of power extracted from the wind farm based on the changes in the locations and arrangements of the turbines. This optimization problem is subjected to some constraints, such as the maximum number of turbines in the farm, the minimum distance between turbines and the overall size of the farm. To solve this optimization problem, the genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization methods are used and the results of these methods are compared. Nowadays, with regard to the reduction of fossil fuels and the management of their   use, wind power is now rising as one of the most efficient renewable energy sources. Moreover, wind farms, which include sets of turbines in a farm, have become more developed and their designs and optimizations have risen recently. In this paper, the wind turbines are located in the wind farm and the effects of their positions and arrangements on the production power of the whole system are investigated. For this purpose, a square farm is considered and, having information on how the winds and wind speeds in each case, will extract the optimum location of turbines in the farm using optimization algorithms. The main goal of this research is to increase the total amount of power extracted from the wind farm based on the changes in the locations and arrangements of the turbines. This optimization problem is subjected to some constraints, such as the maximum number of turbines in the farm, the minimum distance between turbines and the overall size of the farm. To solve this optimization problem, the genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization methods are used and the results of these methods are compared. https://mej.aut.ac.ir/article_3349_69f268fb2ba1068615b3219c6e8f57e8.pdf