Development of data translators for interfacing power-flow programs with EMTP-type programs: Challenges and lessons learned

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1192-1201

  De León, Francisco ^a   Czarkowski, Dariusz ^a   Spitsa, Vitaly ^b   Martinez, Juan A ^c   Noda, Taku ^d   Iravani, Reza ^e   Wang, Xiaoyu ^f   Davoudi, Ali ^g   Chang, Gary W ^h   Mehrizi Sani, Ali ⁱ   Kocar, Ilhan ^j  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d CRIEPI 2 6 1   (Japan)

^e Edward S Rogers Sr Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^f TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁱ Washington State University   (United States)

^j ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Electromagnetic transients; Electromagnetic Transients Program (EMTP); power flow

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TRANSIENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS PROGRAM (EMTP); LARGE AMOUNTS; LESSONS LEARNED; POWER FLOWS; TRANSIENT SIMULATION; TRANSIENT STUDIES; VERY LARGE DATABASE;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC SURGES;

PROGRAM TRANSLATORS;

EID: 84875684608     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2227836     Document Type: Article

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