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Kron reduction is concerned with the elimination of interior nodes of physical network systems such as linear resistor electrical circuits. In this paper it is shown how this can be extended to networks with nonlinear static relations…
Kron reduction is a network-reduction method that eliminates nodes with zero current injections from electrical networks operating in sinusoidal steady state. In the time domain, the state-of-the-art application of Kron reduction has been…
The large size of multiscale, distribution and transmission, power grids hinder fast system-wide estimation and real-time control and optimization of operations. This paper studies graph reduction methods of power grids that are favorable…
The Kron reduction is used in power grid modeling when the analysis can -- supposedly -- be restricted to a subset of nodes. Typically, when one is interested in the phases' dynamics, it is common to reduce the load buses and focus on the…
This paper investigates the impact of Kron reduction on the performance of numerical methods applied to the analysis of unbalanced polyphase power systems. Specifically, this paper focuses on power-flow study, state estimation, and voltage…
Electrical grids are large-sized complex systems that require strong computing power for monitoring and analysis. Kron reduction is a general reduction method in graph theory and is often used for electrical circuit simplification. In this…
Consider a weighted and undirected graph, possibly with self-loops, and its corresponding Laplacian matrix, possibly augmented with additional diagonal elements corresponding to the self-loops. The Kron reduction of this graph is again a…
We consider a network-preserved model of power networks with proper algebraic constraints resulting from constant power loads. Both for the linear and the nonlinear differential algebraic model of the network, we derive explicit reduced…
Most techniques for power system analysis model the grid by exact electrical circuits. For instance, in power flow study, state estimation, and voltage stability assessment, the use of admittance parameters (i.e., the nodal admittance…
This paper presents a novel structure-preserving, Kron-based reduction framework for unbalanced distribution feeders. The method aggregates electrically similar nodes within a mixed-integer optimization (MIP) problem to produce reduced…
This paper introduces a chordal decomposition approach for scalable analysis of linear networked systems, including stability, $\mathcal{H}_2$ and $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ performance. Our main strategy is to exploit any sparsity within these…
We consider the problem of identifying the admittance matrix of a three-phase radial network from voltage and current measurements at a subset of nodes. These measurements are used to estimate a virtual network represented by the Kron…
Stability of power networks is an increasingly important topic because of the high penetration of renewable distributed generation units. This requires the development of advanced (typically model-based) techniques for the analysis and…
In network theory, the concept of effective resistance is a distance measure on a graph that relates the global network properties to individual connections between nodes. In addition, the Kron reduction method is a standard tool for…
Particular aspects of problems ranging from dielectric breakdown to metal insu- lator transition can be studied using electrical o elastic networks. We present an expression for the mean breakdown strength of such networks.First, we intro-…
This paper formulates an inverse power flow problem which is to infer a nodal admittance matrix (hence the network structure of a power system) from voltage and current phasors measured at a number of buses. We show that the admittance…
The tensor network, as a facterization of tensors, aims at performing the operations that are common for normal tensors, such as addition, contraction and stacking. However, due to its non-unique network structure, only the tensor network…
For fast timescales or long prediction horizons, the AC optimal power flow (OPF) problem becomes a computational challenge for large-scale, realistic AC networks. To overcome this challenge, this paper presents a novel network reduction…
Boolean networks have been successfully used in modelling gene regulatory networks. In this paper we propose a reduction method that reduces the complexity of a Boolean network but keeps dynamical properties and topological features and…
We propose a Kron-based model-order reduction method for mass-action kinetics chemical reaction networks (CRN) with constant inflow and proportional outflow. The reduced-order models preserve the CRN structure and we establish that the…