Power system parallel computation by a transputer network

The load flow and transient stability analysis are two of the most elementa ry computation problems that planners and operators must face to ensure pow er system security. With the growth in size and complexity of interconnecte d power systems, the electric power system computation, especially the time domain transient stability simulation for security assessment, is becoming more time-consuming or too expensive. There is always a considerable incen tive to find better computation schemes and to speed-up electric power syst em computation. In this paper, we present an efficient and unified parallel algorithm with the coincident parallel Transputer system for both load flo w and transient stability studies. The implementation results on an actual Chinese power system are discussed and showed that, the whole developed par allel processing system is very cost-effective to speed-up the power system computation. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.