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    Why are buses in a power network shown as horizontal and vertical lines

    I am a complete newbie to the field, and I made no pretensions in the question to the contrary. jraef, my circuits are registering correctly.
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    Why are buses in a power network shown as horizontal and vertical lines

    This is a very very basic question on power systems. A power system is essentially a graph, where the buses are the graph nodes and the edges represent interconnections between the graphs. However in text-books, instead of representing a node as a dot / filled circle it is always represented...
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    Program for drawing the diagram of a power system

    Hello, I have just started using the MATPOWER MATLAB toolbox for power-flow studies. I am new to this field. This toolbox does not seem to have an inbuilt program to look at the bus, generator data and build a diagram of the power system. See this thread Does anyone have a MATLAB program...
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    Large power-systems for power-flow study

    Hi dpc, By accurate data, do you mean the accuracy of the non-linear solver itself, or the accuracy of the measurements fed to the non-linear solver? Because issues regarding non-convergence of the newton solver, or occasional convergence to a bad solution do arise.
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    Large power-systems for power-flow study

    Thanks so much for the link QBPlanner, I will definetely to get one of these cases. I had a couple of more questions. I am pretty new to the field of power-flow studies so please Please forgive me if they seem trivial, I am pretty new to the field of power-flow analysis myself. 1. In your...
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    Large power-systems for power-flow study

    Hello davidbeach, Thanks for the reply. Are you solving the power-flow problem on this network of 15000 buses? If so, could you give me a rough estimate of the time it takes to do power-flow (i.e. finding voltages at the non-slack buses) on your desktop. Thanks
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    Large power-systems for power-flow study

    I have just been started on a research project which involves finding ways to speed up the solution time of the power-flow problem (see Wikipedia here) which is basically calculating voltages at each of the buses of a given power system. I have a few data-sets like the standard IEEE power-flow...

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