Repair strategies for minimising the risk of cascading failures in electricity networks

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 51-71

  Balderer, Christian ^a,b   Guarisco, Michael ^a   Laumanns, Marco ^a   Zenklusen, Rico ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UBS Investment Bank   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cascading failures; Electricity networks; Network flow; Power flow; Repair strategies

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; OUTAGES; RESTORATION;

CASCADING FAILURES; ELECTRICITY NETWORKS; NETWORK FLOWS; POWER FLOWS; REPAIR STRATEGY;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 59449097992     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2009.022849     Document Type: Article

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