Title of Paper:Uniform Decomposition and Positive-Gradient Differential Evolution for Multi-Objective Design of Wind Turbine Blade

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Affiliation of Author(s):民航学院

Journal:ENERGIES

Key Words:wind turbine design convergence performance optimization efficiency uniform decomposition positive-gradient differential evolution

Abstract:Convergence performance and optimization efficiency are two critical issues in the application of commonly used evolution algorithms in multi-objective design of wind turbines. A gradient-based multi-objective evolution algorithm is proposed for wind turbine blade design, based on uniform decomposition and positive-gradient differential evolution. In the uniform decomposition, uniformly distributed reference vectors are established in the objective space to maintain population diversity so that the population aggregations, which are commonly observed for wind turbine blade design using gradient-free algorithms, are minimized. The positive-gradient differential evolution is introduced for population evolution to increase optimization efficiency by guiding the evolutionary process and significantly reducing searching ranges of each individual. Two-, three-and four-objective optimizations of 1.5 MW wind turbine blades reveal that the proposed algorithm can deliver uniformly distributed optimal solutions in an efficient way, and has advantages over gradient-free algorithms in terms of convergence performance and optimization efficiency. These advantages increase with the optimization dimension, and the proposed algorithm is more suitable for optimizations of small size populations, thus remarkably enhancing the design efficiency.

Note:卷: 11 期: 5

ISSN No.:1996-1073

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2018-05-01

Correspondence Author:Wang Tongguang