Criticality in a cascading failure blackout model

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 9 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 627-633

  Nedic, Dusko P ^a   Dobson, Ian ^b   Kirschen, Daniel S ^a   Carreras, Benjamin A ^c   Lynch, Vickie E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Power law; Reliability; Risk

Indexed keywords

BUSBARS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AC BLACKOUT MODEL; CASCADING FAILURE; POWER LAW;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748800705     PISSN: 01420615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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