Formulating the alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) as a polynomial optimization problem makes it possible to solve large instances in practice and to guarantee asymptotic convergence in theory.
@article{arxiv.1404.3626,
title = {Optimal Power Flow as a Polynomial Optimization Problem},
author = {Bissan Ghaddar and Jakub Marecek and Martin Mevissen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.3626},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
A more concise version, which also fixes a number of minor issues