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Competitive Elimination Improved Differential Evolution for Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problems

  • Sichen Tao,
  • Yifei Yang,
  • Ruihan Zhao,
  • Hiroyoshi Todo and
  • Zheng Tang

28 November 2024

The wind farm layout optimization problem (WFLOP) aims to maximize wind energy utilization efficiency under different wind conditions by optimizing the spatial layout of wind turbines to fully mitigate energy losses caused by wake effects. Some high-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Techniques Applications on Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,607 Views
28 Pages

A State-of-the-Art Fractional Order-Driven Differential Evolution for Wind Farm Layout Optimization

  • Sichen Tao,
  • Sicheng Liu,
  • Ruihan Zhao,
  • Yifei Yang and ,
  • Hiroyoshi Todo and
  • Haichuan Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 January 2025

The wind farm layout optimization problem (WFLOP) aims to maximize wind energy utilization efficiency and mitigate energy losses caused by wake effects by optimizing the spatial layout of wind turbines. Although Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Particle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics in Neural Networks)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,020 Views
24 Pages

Power battery enterprises are a key link in the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry chain. However, studies analyzing the investment layout of power battery enterprises from a micro perspective are relatively scarce. This study takes Contemporary Amper...

(This article belongs to the Section Storage Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
318 Views
26 Pages

Exploring the spatiotemporal evolution of investment layouts of new energy vehicle (NEV) enterprises is important for understanding NEV industrial chains and their spatial organization. Taking BYD as a case study, this study adopts an industrial chai...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,505 Views
34 Pages

10 September 2025

The Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem (WFLOP) aims to improve wind energy utilization and reduce wake-induced power losses through optimal placement of wind turbines. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) have been widely...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Techniques Applications on Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,127 Views
18 Pages

30 May 2023

The Interior layout model is to optimize the arrangement position of each room to maximize the comfort and quality of life of residents. Due to the complexity of the Interior layout problem, the computation of fitness function costs lots of time. To...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,608 Views
18 Pages

26 March 2024

In the face of geopolitical challenges and climate change, economic progress, safe production, and environmental protection have emerged as important directions for chemical industry development. However, the rational optimization of the chemical ind...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecological Restoration and Reusing Brownfield Sites)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,307 Views
23 Pages

12 August 2021

Layout optimization is capable of increasing turbine density and reducing wake effects in wind plants. However, such optimized layouts do not guarantee fixed T-2-T distances in any direction and would be disadvantageous if reduction in computational...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from ENERGYCON 2020 Conference)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,057 Views
25 Pages

21 February 2024

The future of wind power systems deployment is in the form of wind farms comprised of scores of such large turbines, most likely at offshore locations. Individual turbines have grown in span from a few tens of meters to today’s large turbines w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Development and Future Perspective of Wind Power Generation)
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  • Open Access
66 Citations
7,143 Views
17 Pages

Layout Optimisation of Wave Energy Converter Arrays

  • Pau Mercadé Ruiz,
  • Vincenzo Nava,
  • Mathew B. R. Topper,
  • Pablo Ruiz Minguela and ,
  • Francesco Ferri and
  • Jens Peter Kofoed
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 August 2017

This paper proposes an optimisation strategy for the layout design of wave energy converter (WEC) arrays. Optimal layouts are sought so as to maximise the absorbed power given a minimum q-factor, the minimum distance between WECs, and an area of depl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Energy)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,886 Views
23 Pages

21 January 2025

The evolution of industrial land layout is a significant feature of changes in urban land use types during rapid urbanization. However, the theoretical studies investigating the evolution mechanism behind industrial land are scarce. This study develo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization of Land Space for High-Quality and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,393 Views
14 Pages

Two-Stage Intelligent Layout Design of Curved Cabin Door

  • Tianhe Gao,
  • Ziyu Xu,
  • Zengcong Li,
  • Pei Liu and
  • Kuo Tian

16 January 2023

As one of the most complex and critical components of spacecraft, the structural design of the curved cabin door faces two challenges. On the one hand, it is difficult to obtain innovative configurations for the cabin door in the preliminary design s...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,072 Views
52 Pages

18 March 2025

Research on the safety and impact of lithium-ion battery failure has focused on individual cells as lithium-ion batteries began to be used in small devices. However, large and complex battery packs need to be considered, and how the failure of a sing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Sustainable Electrical Energy Technologies (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,505 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2023

An intelligent assembly method was designed to realize the intelligent assembly of the profiled thermal battery pack and improve its assembly accuracy. Firstly, as the number and size of different monomer batteries vary, this paper takes the monomer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Optimization Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,021 Views
16 Pages

A Multi-Local Search-Based SHADE for Wind Farm Layout Optimization

  • Yifei Yang,
  • Sichen Tao,
  • Haotian Li,
  • Haichuan Yang and
  • Zheng Tang

13 August 2024

Wind farm layout optimization (WFLO) is focused on utilizing algorithms to devise a more rational turbine layout, ultimately maximizing power generation efficiency. Traditionally, genetic algorithms have been frequently employed in WFLO due to the in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Sources Integrated with Power Distribution Systems Using Machine Learning Approach)
  • Article
  • Open Access
834 Views
22 Pages

22 October 2025

Offshore vessels are nowadays equipped with dynamic positioning systems, meaning they have additional thrusters dedicated to the station keeping of the unit. However, there is no rational criterion on the placement of these devices to increment stati...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,368 Views
42 Pages

18 November 2025

With the rise of 6G communication technology, the issue of communication coverage in mountainous areas has become increasingly prominent. These regions are characterized by complex terrain, sparse user distribution, and small-scale clustering, making...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Internet of Drones: Applications, Communication Infrastructures, Architectures, and Protocols for FANETs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,369 Views
20 Pages

13 March 2023

The study of spatial layout in China is changing from land use/land cover to territorial spatial layout and is mostly carried out at the administrative division scale. However, the driving factors affecting the evolution of territorial spatial layout...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,263 Views
25 Pages

Online Dynamic Network Visualization Based on SIPA Layout Algorithm

  • Guijuan Wang,
  • Huarong Chen,
  • Rui Zhou,
  • Yadong Wu and ,
  • Wei Gao,
  • Jing Liao and
  • Fupan Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 November 2023

Online dynamic network visualization is imperative for real-time network monitoring and analysis applications. It presents a significant research challenge for maintaining both layout stability and quality amid unpredictable temporal changes. While n...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,942 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2020

In advanced industrial automation, industrial robots have been widely utilized on assembly lines in order to reduce labor dependence. However, many related layout design approaches proposed are prone to generating unsafe layouts: there generally lack...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0 Based Smart Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,415 Views
18 Pages

10 March 2021

Suzhou city was the cultural centre of ancient south China. It continues the urban pattern of more than 800 years ago. Suzhou gardens are the essence of Chinese gardening art, as well as the valuable world cultural heritage site. This paper compared...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,451 Views
19 Pages

31 December 2019

The development and evolution of an urban green space system is affected by both natural effects and human intervention. The simulation and prediction of an urban green space system can enhance the foresight of urban planning. In this study, several...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,241 Views
23 Pages

17 June 2025

During their evolution, Sino-Tibetan temples have been influenced by multiple factors, including history, geography, and climate, resulting in a variety of distinctive spatial layouts. Through performance simulations, many traditional construction me...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
440 Views
17 Pages

Coupled Effects of Obstacle Distribution and Blockage Ratio on Flame Propagation and Pressure Rise in Propane–Air Premixed Deflagration

  • Ning Zhou,
  • Rongkun Rao,
  • Xue Li,
  • Bing Chen and ,
  • Chunhai Yang,
  • Guangping Zhou,
  • Xuanya Liu,
  • Weiqiu Huang and
  • Xiongjun Yuan
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 May 2026

To reveal the mechanisms by which obstacle distribution affects propane–air premixed deflagration under different blockage ratios, large eddy simulation (LES) was employed to investigate flame propagation and pressure rise in a confined duct wi...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Safety and Risk Management)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,243 Views
23 Pages

16 April 2025

Private gardens during the Song Dynasty are an important component of classical Chinese garden design. However, existing research predominantly focuses on architectural forms and construction techniques, with insufficient systematic exploration of th...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,847 Views
18 Pages

12 April 2024

Life cycle diagrams communicate the developmental life stages of an organism. Design choices may inadvertently communicate additional information about survivorship rates, genetic variation, and microevolutionary change. In this controlled experiment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visualization in Biology Education)
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  • Open Access
77 Citations
6,143 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2018

Since different incident waves will cause the same array to perform differently with respect to the wave energy converter (WEC), the parameters of the incident wave, including the incident angle and the incident wave number, are taken into account fo...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,435 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2023

Groundwater on small coral islands (so-called freshwater lens) is an important water resource for residents and local ecosystems. However, an overexploitation of it may induce a contamination by saltwater. In this paper, we strive to determine the ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue China Water Forum 2022)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,460 Views
20 Pages

8 February 2025

Historical urban environments are frequently abandoned with the rise in expansion. An example is Kendari, a city that is over two centuries old with long historical colonialism, such as the Dutch East Indies and Japan. The city is presently eroded du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,214 Views
20 Pages

A Layout Optimization Design Method for Flat-Panel Satellites with In-Orbit Validation

  • Jiyao Zhang,
  • Jinsheng Guo,
  • Liwei Luo,
  • Zhenqian Liu and
  • Huayi Li

10 August 2025

Since 2019, Starlink satellites, with their innovative flat-panel design and unprecedented number in orbit, have transformed the traditional satellite industry. Due to their mass production characteristics, flat-panel satellites face a pressing need...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Space System Design)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,222 Views
25 Pages

26 February 2025

Public rental housing complexes in South Korea have played a critical role in addressing housing needs since their introduction in 1989, initially prioritizing rapid quantitative supply. However, challenges such as limited housing quality and evolvin...

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  • Open Access
1,433 Views
26 Pages

27 November 2024

The regional imbalance of power supply and use is an important factor affecting the efficient and sustainable development of China’s power system. It is necessary to achieve the better matching of power supply and use through the optimization o...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
393 Views
19 Pages

Near-Field Lithography Optical Proximity Correction Based on Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy

  • Chengyao Pu,
  • Ge Yin,
  • Yanqing Wang,
  • Zeyu Zhao and ,
  • Changtao Wang,
  • Xiaoliang Ma,
  • Mingbo Pu and
  • Weijie Kong
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 August 2026

Near-field lithography (NFL) can achieve super-resolution patterning beyond the optical diffraction limit by using evanescent waves. However, optical proximity effects in NFL can lead to nonuniform near-field intensity distribution, reduced image con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photonics Enabled by Plasmonic Metamaterials: Recent Developments and Future Directions)
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  • Open Access
433 Views
30 Pages

25 August 2026

Surface-figure stability is essential to high-resolution optical remote-sensing systems that employ lightweight annular primary mirrors. This study proposes a variable triangular active support layout for a 660 mm annular thin mirror with a 100 mm ce...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,141 Views
23 Pages

13 March 2023

Characteristic Chinese towns are “green ecology” innovation space units based on the background of the ‘Beautiful China Initiative’ (BCI), new urbanization, supply-side structural reform and the implementation of rural revital...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,130 Views
25 Pages

As with wind turbines, marine tidal turbines are expected to be deployed in arrays of multiple turbines. To optimize these arrays, a more profound understanding of the interactions between turbines is necessary. This paper employs the Actuator Line M...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,524 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2022

Strategic positioning is the core issue of strategic management, and regional niche is the core of strategic positioning. Regional niche has important implications in sustainability transition. In this study, the regional niche and spatial distributi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Issues in Applied Economics and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
547 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2026

Low-frequency oscillatory flow is a long-standing instability in cryogenic jet condensation systems and is closely associated with abnormal pressure fluctuations in propulsion pipelines. While previous studies mainly focused on operating conditions,...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,468 Views
19 Pages

Probabilistic Fire Risk Framework for Optimizing Construction Site Layout

  • Rani El Meouche,
  • Mohammed Abunemeh,
  • Ihab Hijazi,
  • Ahmed Mebarki and ,
  • Fadi Fatayer and
  • Amjad Issa
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 May 2020

Purpose: This paper aims to develop an efficient model able to reduce catastrophic consequences and the significant number of victims resulting from fires at construction sites. The paper proposes probabilistic modeling aimed to minimize the probabil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability and Risks in Construction Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,139 Views
26 Pages

15 May 2024

Urban planning is often influenced by industrial and construction activities, leading to a lack of attention to the planning and construction of urban parks, which results in prominent spatial layout problems. Urban parks, as an important part of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
507 Views
39 Pages

Extraction Technology of Pressure-Relief Gas Based on the Co-Evolution and Zoning Mechanism of Mining-Induced Overburden Fracture

  • Peiyun Xu,
  • Wuyi Yang,
  • Shugang Li,
  • Haiqing Shuang and ,
  • Xiaolong Zhang,
  • Xiaoxu Chen and
  • Chenguang Guo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 July 2026

This study examines the evolving patterns and zoning characteristics of gas migration and storage zones during coal seam mining, taking the 215 fully mechanized longwall face at Huangling No. 2 Coal Mine as the engineering background. By integrating...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,737 Views
12 Pages

Optimization of a Coherent Dual-Beam Array Feed Network for Aperiodic Concentric Ring Antennas

  • Armando Arce,
  • Enrique Stevens-Navarro,
  • Ulises Pineda-Rico,
  • Marco Cardenas-Juarez and ,
  • Francisco R. Castillo-Soria and
  • David H. Covarrubias
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 January 2021

A dual-beam coherent feeding system design approach with a non-uniform layout on a concentric ring array is described and synthesized. In this case, the feeding system is based on a reconfigurable topology composed of a set of alternated power divide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Telecommunications Engineering)
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  • Open Access
180 Views
21 Pages

Coupled Multiphysics Optimization of Ball Grid Array with Microchannel Heat Dissipation

  • Yuqing Dong,
  • Gang Nan,
  • Zhihui Xie,
  • Zhuoqun Lu and
  • Yanlin Ge

25 October 2026

Ball grid array (BGA) is widely used in chip packaging, and the thermo-mechanical performance of its solder joints significantly affects the performance of packaged devices. To investigate and improve the thermo-mechanical performance of BGA solder j...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging: Materials and Technologies, 3rd Edition)
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  • Open Access
3,376 Views
22 Pages

20 May 2025

This study explores the publication and dissemination of the Pilu Canon 《毗盧藏》, engraved by followers of Bao’en Wanshou Hall in Houshan Village, Fujian, during the Yanyou reign of the Yuan Dynasty. Funded throu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shaping Sacred Knowledge: The Transmission and Legacy of the Chinese Buddhist Canon)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,015 Views
19 Pages

The main function zone (MFZ) is the major strategy of China’s economic development and ecological environment protection. Clarifying the logical relationship between “MFZ strategy” and “territorial spatial layout” is vit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Social and Ecological Factors on Coupled Human-Environment Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,862 Views
25 Pages

25 March 2025

Under the framework of the Rural Revitalization Strategy, optimizing the layout of rural settlements in mountainous areas and guiding their sustainable development must be based on a deep understanding of the evolution characteristics of rural settle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental and Social Sustainability in Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
334 Views
32 Pages

30 June 2026

Efficient heat extraction from fractured geothermal reservoirs is strongly controlled by fracture network heterogeneity, well-layout design, and injection operations. In this study, a two-dimensional discrete fracture network (DFN) model incorporatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
924 Views
28 Pages

31 March 2026

The primary objective of water supply systems is to ensure a reliable delivery of water in appropriate quantity, quality, and pressure. Designing water supply networks involves determining their geometric layout and capacity by selecting suitable pip...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Design of Water Distribution Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,867 Views
17 Pages

28 November 2022

In the present investigation, we study the influence of conventual foundations on the origin of the urban layout of two of the first cities in the Spanish colonization of America: Santo Domingo (1502) and Panama Viejo (1519), examples of early coloni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,763 Views
23 Pages

4 January 2024

PDC (polycrystalline diamond compact) drill bits are widely employed for rock-breaking in many industries like underground engineering and building constructions. The cutter layout would directly affect the overall performance of the drill bits. Fiel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Underground Engineering and Geomechanics)

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