Improved differential evolution for solving Optimal Reactive Power Flow

Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yong, Liu ^a   Tao, Shang ^a   Dehua, Wu ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNICOM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Differential evolution; Optimal reactive power flow; Population size; Premature convergence

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; IMPROVED SCHEME; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMAL REACTIVE POWER FLOW; PARAMETER SETTING; POPULATION DIVERSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREMATURE CONVERGENCE; REINITIALIZATION; VARIABLE POPULATION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLOW SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REACTIVE POWER;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84869985216     PISSN: 21574839     EISSN: 21574847     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APPEEC.2009.4918420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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