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Link failures repeatedly induce large-scale outages in power grids and other supply networks. Yet, it is still not well understood, which links are particularly prone to inducing such outages. Here we analyze how the nature and location of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-06 Dirk Witthaut , Martin Rohden , Xiaozhu Zhang , Sarah Hallerberg , Marc Timme

We model power grids transporting electricity generated by intermittent renewable sources as complex networks, where line failures can emerge indirectly by noisy power input at the nodes. By combining concepts from statistical physics and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-27 Tommaso Nesti , Alessandro Zocca , Bert Zwart

Interconnected networks of rigid struts are critical for application in lightweight, load-bearing structures. However, accurately modeling stress distribution in these strut lattices poses significant computational challenges due to its…

Research on the vulnerability of electric networks with a complex network approach has produced significant results in the last decade, especially for transmission networks. These studies have shown that there are causal relations between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-11 Bálint Hartmann , Tamás Soha , Michelle T. Cirunay , Tímea Erdei

Power grids vulnerability is a key issue in society. A component failure may trigger cascades of failures across the grid and lead to a large blackout. Complex network approaches have shown a direction to study some of the problems faced by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-22 Trivik Verma , Wendy Ellens , Robert E. Kooij

Accurate and scalable surrogate models for AC power flow are essential for real-time grid monitoring, contingency analysis, and decision support in increasingly dynamic and inverter-dominated power systems. However, most existing surrogates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Shrenik Jadhav , Birva Sevak , Srijita Das , Wencong Su , Van-Hai Bui

The size distributions of power outages are shown to depend on the stress, or the proximity of the load of an electrical grid to complete breakdown. Using the data for the U.S. between 2002-2017, we show that the outage statistics are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-12 Soumyajyoti Biswas , Lucas Goehring

Renewables will soon dominate energy production in our electric power system. And yet, how to integrate renewable energy into the grid and the market is still a subject of major debate. Decentral Smart Grid Control (DSGC) was recently…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-10-31 Benjamin Schäfer , Carsten Grabow , Sabine Auer , Jürgen Kurths , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme

Transmission line failures in power systems propagate non-locally, making the control of the resulting outages extremely difficult. In this work, we establish a mathematical theory that characterizes the patterns of line failure propagation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Linqi Guo , Chen Liang , Alessandro Zocca , Steven H. Low , Adam Wierman

A model of the Italian 380 kV electrical transmission network has been analyzed under the topological and the functional viewpoints. The DC power flow model used to evaluate the power flux has been solved on the basis of input conditions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-10 V. Rosato , L. Issacharoff , G. Gianese , S. Bologna

Cascade failures in power grids occur when the failure of one component or subsystem causes a chain reaction of failures in other components or subsystems, ultimately leading to a widespread blackout or outage. Controlling cascade failures…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-02 Géza Ódor , István Papp , Kristóf Benedek , Bálint Hartmann

What are the theoretical and physical limits of a grid-forming inverter? This letter proposes that the extreme grid-forming ability of inverters is limited by their dc-side, ac-side, circuit topology dynamics, but not control. While many…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Qianxi Tang , Li Peng

Motter et al. derived a real-valued master stability function which determines whether and to what degree a given power grid is asymptotically stable. Stright and Edrington adopted certain uniformity assumptions on a grid's components and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 James Stright , Chris Edrington

The converters in an AC/DC grid form actuated boundaries between the AC and DC subgrids. We show how in both simple linear and balanced dq-frame models, the states on either side of these boundaries are coupled only by control inputs. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Josh A. Taylor

The emerging deep learning (DL) technology has recently exhibited great potential in data-driven short-term voltage stability (SVS) assessment of complex power grids. However, without sufficient attention to the time-varying topological…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Chao Deng , Lipeng Zhu , Chang Liu , Hefeng Zhai , Baoye Tian , Zexiang Zhu , Jiayong Li , Cong Zhang

Ad hoc electrical networks are formed by connecting power sources and loads without pre-determining the network topology. These systems are well-suited to addressing the lack of electricity in rural areas because they can be assembled and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Julia A. Belk , Wardah Inam , David J. Perreault , Konstantin Turitsyn

We investigate coherent oscillations in large scale transmission power grids, where large groups of generators respond in unison to a distant disturbance. Such long wavelength coherent phenomena are known as inter-area oscillations. Their…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-03-02 Julian Fritzsch , Philippe Jacquod

Power losses reduction is one of the main targets for any electrical energy distribution company. In this paper, we face the problem of joint optimization of both topology and network parameters in a real smart grid. We consider a portion…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Francesca Possemato , Maurizio Paschero , Lorenzo Livi , Antonello Rizzi , Alireza Sadeghian

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…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Colin Grudzien , Deepjyoti Deka , Michael Chertkov , Scott N Backhaus

Recently, there has been a growing concern about the overload status of the power grid networks, and the increasing possibility of cascading failures. Many researchers have studied these networks to provide design guidelines for more robust…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-27 Sakshi Pahwa , Caterina Scoglio , Noel Schulz