How dead ends undermine power grid stability

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Menck, Peter J ^a,b   Heitzig, Jobst ^a   Kurths, Jürgen ^a,b,c   Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim ^a,d  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STABILIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GENERATOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POWER GRID; POWER SUPPLY; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84902285198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4969     Document Type: Article

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