Wind Driven Optimization (WDO): A novel nature-inspired optimization algorithm and its application to electromagnetics

This paper introduces a novel nature-inspired global optimization technique, which we call Wind Driven Optimization. WDO is a population based iterative global optimization method, where the velocity and the position of wind controlled air parcels are updated based on the physical equations that govern atmospheric motion. The effectiveness of WDO as a tool in optimization problems is first shown with its performance on benchmark functions and then with its application to optimizing the design for a thin double-sided AMC surface at 10 GHz.