Under CopyrightSchmidt, J.J.SchmidtStoevesandt, B.B.Stoevesandt2022-03-1313.1.20162015https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/39042410.24406/publica-fhg-390424For a complex terrain site in Bahia, Brazil, 28 CFDRANS simulations were carried out, representing the relevant states of a wind rose with three degrees resolution. The resulting wind fields provide the background wind for the layout optimization of a wind farm with 64 wind turbines based on the AEP. The underlying wake model was deduced from CFD-RANS simulation results of an isolated actuator disk. We find that a hybrid optimization algorithm that combines genetic and gradient-based optimizers and subsequently increases the size of the wind farm yields good optimization results.enpresentation