%0 Journal Article %T INVESTIGATION OF WIND FARM BORDER SHAPE EFFECT ON W£¿ND FARM LAYOUT PROBLEM %A M. Arif £¿zg¨¹r %A Onur Ko£¿ar %J - %D 2019 %X Interest in renewable energy sources has been increasing due to the fossil-based sources being exhaustible and the harmful effects to the environment. Wind energy technology is spreading rapidly all over the world because it offers lower unit energy costs compared to other renewable energy technologies. Increasing wind energy has triggered the demand for more efficient wind farm layouts. A great number of research has been published for the solution of the complex optimization problem which has many limitations. However, the effect of the wind farm boundary shape on the results of optimization is rarely mentioned. For this reason, in this study, optimization calculations were carried out for a wind model based on long-term K¨¹tahya wind data and four different boundaries (square, rectangular, circle and irregular). The rate of change of important design parameters depending on the wind farm boundary shape has been investigated. It was observed that the most important design parameters such as the wake efficiency, energy cost, total cost and annual energy production are less than 10% against to the sensitivities to the change of the wind farm border shape %K De£¿i£¿ken t¨¹rbin modeli %K d¨¹zensiz s£¿n£¿r %K r¨¹zgar enerjisi %K r¨¹zgar santrali konumland£¿rma optimizasyonu %U http://dergipark.org.tr/dpufbed/issue/46419/583302