Efficient simulation of blackout probabilities using splitting

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 743-751

  Shortle, John F ^a  

^a Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascading blackouts; Rare event simulation; Splitting

Indexed keywords

CASCADING BLACKOUT; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; GRID NETWORK; LARGE-SCALE BLACKOUT; MESH NETWORK; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RARE EVENT SIMULATION; SIMPLE NETWORKS; SPLITTING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84866529562     PISSN: 01420615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2012.07.055     Document Type: Article

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