AWESPA Farm Optimization

Power-output smoothing for pumping-cycle Airborne Wind Energy System (AWES) farms using phase-offset optimization. To investigate the potential of phase-offset optimization in wind-aligned overlapping systems, this repository generates simple farm layouts, evaluates geometric phase-offset constraints and, optimizes the system phases.

Features

• Farm layout generation
• Phase-constraint analysis from operational envelopes
• Phase-offset optimization for power smoothing
• PDF plots and YAML result summaries

Installation

Install the package from the repository root:

pip install -e .

For development tools:

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Usage

1. Edit the farm settings if needed:

examples/meridional/case_2_farm_settings.yml

This file controls the selected wind speeds, safety margin, cone half-widths, variability metric, and optimization resolution.

2. Run the farm phase optimization:

python scripts/run_farm_phase_optimization.py

The script reads the meridional example files, generates farm layouts, optimizes the phases, and writes results to:

results/farm_phase_optimization/

3. Generate report figures:

python scripts/report_plotting.py

Inputs

The main example uses files in examples/meridional/:

• case1_100kw_V11_120_70kN_170kW.yml
• power_curves.yml
• power_curves.npz
• case_2_farm_settings.yml

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• NumPy
• SciPy
• Matplotlib
• PyYAML

See requirements.txt for the short dependency list.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Citation

If you use this software in your research, please cite it. See CITATION.cff.