Integral measures of electric power distribution networks: Load-length curves and line-network multipliers

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1039-1051

  Arion, Valentin ^a   Cojocari, Alexandru ^a   Bejan, Adrian ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOLDOVA   (Moldova)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructal design; Economic optimization; Power distribution; Topology optimization; Tree networks

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRICITY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

LINE-NETWORK MULTIPLIERS;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037400478     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(02)00108-5     Document Type: Article

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