6.1. Papers
Please cite the following paper if you are using OpenTidalFarm:
For work on the addition of cost models into the OpenTidalFarm framework please see:
- DM Culley, SW Funke, SC Kramer, MD Piggott (2016).
Integration of cost modelling within the micro-siting design optimisation of tidal turbine arrays,
Renewable Energy, 85, pp. 215-227.
doi:10.1016/j.renene.2015.06.013.
[PDF].
For work on the addition of cost models into the OpenTidalFarm framework please see:
- DM Culley, SW Funke, SC Kramer, MD Piggott (2016).
Integration of cost modelling within the micro-siting design optimisation of tidal turbine arrays,
Renewable Energy, 85, pp. 215-227.
doi:10.1016/j.renene.2015.06.013.
[PDF].
For work on a continuous representation of tidal turbines that can be used for large-scale optimisation, such as multi-farm optimisation, or resource assessment, please see:
- SW Funke, SC Kramer, MD Piggott (2015).
Design optimisation and resource assessment for tidal-stream renewable energy farms using a new continuous turbine approach,
Renewable Energy, 99, pp. 1046-1061.
doi:10.1016/j.renene.2016.07.039.
[PDF].
For work on array sizing and sensitivity analysis please see:
- DM Culley, SW Funke, SC Kramer, MD Piggott (2015).
Tidal stream resource assessment through optimisation of array design with quantification of uncertainty,
The Proceedings of the 11th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Nantes, 2015
[PDF].
For a general piece on the role OpenTidalFarm might play in the overall tidal turbine array design process see:
- DM Culley, SW Funke, SC Kramer, MD Piggott (2014).
A hierarchy of approaches for the optimal design of tidal turbine farms,
ICOE 2014 (5th International Conference on Ocean Energy),
doi:10.684/m9.figshare.1219375.
[PDF].
For work on global optimisation of turbine locations through the use of a hybrid global-local optimisation schemes and wake models pease see:
- GL Barnett, SW Funke, MD Piggott (2014).
Hybrid global-local optimisation algorithms for the layout design of tidal turbine arrays,
submitted. arXiv:1410.2476 [math.OC]
[PDF].
For work on turbulence modelling in OpenTidalFarm and the validity of turbine placement from steady-state adjoint computations, please see:
- CT Jacobs, MD Piggott, SC Kramer, SW Funke (2016).
On the validity of tidal turbine array configurations obtained from steady-state adjoint optimisation,
in Proceedings of the VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2016), Crete, Greece, 5-10 June 2016. arXiv:1601.08091
[PDF]
Finally, OpenTidalFarm relies on external tools to achieve its goals, such as:
- A Logg, K-A Mardal, GN Wells et al. (2013).
Automated Solution of Differential Equations by the Finite Element Method,
Springer
[Webpage,
PDF].
- SW Funke and PE Farrell (2013).
A framework for automated PDE-constrained optimisation,
submitted. arXiv:1302.3894 [cs.MS]
[PDF].
- PE Farrell, DA Ham, SW Funke and ME Rognes (2013).
Automated derivation of the adjoint of high-level transient finite element programs,
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 35.4, pp. C369-C393. doi:10.1137/120873558. arXiv:1204.5577 [cs.MS].
[PDF].
6.2. Posters and presentations
OpenTidalFarm at the International Conference on Ocean Energy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2014:
Poster presentation:
- DM Culley, SW Funke, SC Kramer, MD Piggott (2014).
Resource assessment of tidal sites through array optimisation of the number of turbines and the micro-siting design,
doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1219384.
[PDF].
- T Schwedes (2015).
Mesh dependence in PDE-constrained optimisation problems with an application in tidal turbine array layouts,
master presentation.
[PDF].
OpenTidalFarm at the VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2016):
- CT Jacobs, MD Piggott, SC Kramer, SW Funke (2016).
On the validity of tidal turbine array configurations obtained from steady-state adjoint optimisation.
[Slides]