Real-time simulation of grid-connected wind farms using physical aggregation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3010-3021

  Vahid, Jalili Marandi ^a   Pak, Lok Fu ^b   Dinavahi, Venkata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SUNCOR ENERGY INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; power system simulation; real time systems; wind energy

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION LEVEL; AGGREGATION METHODS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DOUBLY-FED; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS; FAULT TRANSIENTS; FIXED TIME STEP; GENERAL ELECTRICS; GRID-CONNECTED WIND FARMS; MATLAB /SIMULINK; MW WIND TURBINE; OFF-LINE SIMULATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PC CLUSTERS; POWER SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; POWER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; REAL-TIME SIMULATOR; WIND ENERGY; WIND FARM;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; SIMULATORS; TRANSIENTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955634497     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2037644     Document Type: Article

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