Cultural coyote optimization algorithm applied to a heavy duty gas turbine operation

•A grey-box simulation model of a heavy duty GT is designed and explored.•The normative knowledge of Cultural Algorithms improves the COA’s performance.•The CCOA is a powerful optimizer for benchmarks and the heavy duty GT application.•The CCOA outperformed other state-of-the-art metaheuristics for...

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