Multicore Parallelization of CHC for Optimal Aerogenerator Placement in Wind Farms

Abstract

In this paper, we study a parallelization of CHC algorithm (Crossover elitism population, Half uniform crossover combination, Cataclysm mutation) to solve the problem of placement of wind turbines in a wind farm. We also analyze the solutions obtained when we use both, the sequential and parallel version for the CHC algorithm. In this case we study the behavior of parallel metaheuristics using an island model to distribute the algorithm in different cores and compare this proposal with the sequential version to analyse the number of evaluation to find the best configuration, output power extracted, plant coefficient, evaluations needed, memory consumption, and execution time for different number of core and different problem sizes.