Recent advances in computational methods for the power flow equations

D Mehta, DK Molzahn, K Turitsyn - 2016 American Control …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The power flow equations are at the core of most of the computations for designing and
operating electric grids. This system of multivariate nonlinear equations relate the power …

Computing the feasible spaces of optimal power flow problems

DK Molzahn - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The solution to an optimal power flow (OPF) problem provides a minimum cost operating
point for an electric power system. The performance of OPF solution techniques strongly …

On the network topology dependent solution count of the algebraic load flow equations

T Chen, D Mehta - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active research activity in power systems areas has focused on developing computational
methods to solve load flow equations where a key question is the maximum number of …

Toward topologically based upper bounds on the number of power flow solutions

DK Molzahn, D Mehta… - 2016 American Control …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The power flow equations, which relate power injections and voltage phasors, are at the
heart of many electric power system computations. While Newton-based methods typically …

HELM: The holomorphic embedding load-flow method. Foundations and implementations

A Trias - Foundations and Trends® in Electric Energy …, 2018 - nowpublishers.com
Abstract The Holomorphic Embedding Load-Flow Method (HELM) was recently introduced
as a novel technique to constructively solve the power flow equations in power networks …

Unmixing the mixed volume computation

T Chen - Discrete & Computational Geometry, 2019 - Springer
Computing mixed volume of convex polytopes is an important problem in computational
algebraic geometry. This paper establishes sufficient conditions under which the mixed …

[PDF][PDF] A network topology dependent upper bound on the number of equilibria of the Kuramoto model

T Chen, D Mehta, M Niemerg - arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05905, 2016 - researchgate.net
We begin with formulating the station-ary equations of the Kuramoto model as a system of
polynomial equations in a novel way. Then, based on an algebraic geometric root count, we …

Investigating the maximum number of real solutions to the power flow equations: Analysis of lossless four-bus systems

DK Molzahn, M Niemerg, D Mehta… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
The power flow equations model the steady-state relationship between the power injections
and voltage phasors in an electric power system. By separating the real and imaginary …

Efficient region of attraction characterization for control and stabilization of load tap changer dynamics

B Cui, A Zamzam, G Cavraro… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the monitoring and control of long-term voltage stability considering
load tap changer (LTC) dynamics. We show that under generic conditions, the LTC …

Three formulations of the Kuramoto model as a system of polynomial equations

T Chen, J Mareček, D Mehta… - 2019 57th Annual …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We compare three formulations of stationary equations of the Kuramoto model as systems of
polynomial equations. In the comparison, we present bounds on the numbers of real …