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