GA Optimization for Variable Cross Section frame wind turbine
MA Ren le and ZHENG Rui jie
DOI:10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2009.06.002
Received September 24, 2009,Revised , Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015
Volume ,2009,Pages 1-6
- Abstract
A new type of wind turbine tower,Variable Cross Section Frame wind turbine, was proposed. With Fortran language and binary coding method of Genetic Algorithm (GA), calculation algorithm of varying cross section frame wind turbine was developed base on practical project. Upon the optimization algorithm, section size and shape optimization of wind tower was carried out. By the finite element software, with user defined beam element parameters, an optimization model was proposed for traditional single pipe tower. It was found that compared with single pipe tower, frame wind turbine has quite a lot advantages such as relative higher first natural frequency and stiffness, relative lower foundation quantities, easy to be carried and constructed and so on.