A sufficient condition for power flow insolvability with applications to voltage stability margins

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2592-2601

  Molzahn, Daniel K ^a   Lesieutre, Bernard C ^a   DeMarco, Christopher L ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum loadability; power flow; power flow solution existence; solution space boundary

Indexed keywords

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MAXIMUM LOADABILITY; NONLINEAR ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; POWER FLOWS; POWER-FLOW SOLUTION; SOLUTION SPACE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; VOLTAGE STABILITY MARGINS;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

LOADING;

EID: 84880924634     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2233765     Document Type: Article

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