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A New Hybrid Metaheuristic Algorithm for Wind Farm Micrositing

Keywords: Wind Farm, Jensen Wake Model, Nature Inspired Algorithms, Differential Evolution Algorithm, Firefly algorithm, Genetic Algorithm, Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Algorithm

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 36 ,  Issue 3

SHAFIQ-UR-REHMAN   MASSAN , ASIM IMDAD WAGAN   , MUHAMMAD MUJTABA SHAIKH   ,

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