Research Article
A Hybrid Metaheuristic-Based Approach for the Aerodynamic Optimization of Small Hybrid Wind Turbine Rotors
Table 2
SA’s Parameters to be tuned and the considered levels.
| Factor (SA’s parameters) | Levels |
| Temperature variation within Markov chains () | False | True | System’s initial temperature () | 0.001 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 1 | 10 | Maximum number of accepted trials () | 5 | 10 | 50 | 150 | Maximum number of trials () | 5 | 10 | 50 | 150 | Number of Markov chains () | 1 | 2 | Neighborhood size () as a percentage of the size of the search space () | 1% | 5% | 10% | 30% | 50% | Cooling rate () | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.97 | 0.99 |
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