Understanding the cascading failures in Indian power grids with complex networks theory

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 392, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3273-3280

  Zhang, Guidong ^a,b   Li, Zhong ^b   Zhang, Bo ^a   Halang, Wolfgang A ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cascading failures; Complex networks6; Modeling Active and reactive loads; Power grids; Tolerance parameter

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; OUTAGES;

ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER; CASCADING FAILURES; COMPLEX NETWORKS THEORIES; COMPLEX NETWORKS6; ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS; POWER GRIDS; REACTIVE LOADS; SECURITY OF POWER GRIDS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM SECURITY;

EID: 84877711475     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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