 Design optimisation and resource assessment for tidal-stream renewable energy farms using a new continuous turbine approachS.W. Funke, S.C. Kramer and M.D. Piggott Renewable Energy, 2016, vol. 99, issue C, 1046-1061 Abstract: This paper presents a new approach for optimising the design of tidal stream turbine farms. In this approach, the turbine farm is represented by a turbine density function that specifies the number of turbines per unit area and an associated continuous locally-enhanced bottom friction field. The farm design question is formulated as a mathematical optimisation problem constrained by the shallow water equations and solved with efficient, gradient-based optimisation methods. The resulting method is accurate, computationally efficient, allows complex installation constraints, and supports different goal quantities such as to maximise power or profit. The outputs of the optimisation are the optimal number of turbines, their location within the farm, the overall farm profit, the farm's power extraction, and the installation cost. Keywords: Marine renewable energy; Tidal stream turbines; Optimisation; Shallow water equations; Resource assessment; Pentland Firth (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:99:y:2016:i:c:p:1046-1061 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.07.039 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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