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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 used to simplify the analysis of multi-machine power systems under certain steady state assumptions that underly the usage of phasors. In this paper we show how to perform Kron reduction for a class of electrical networks…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Network reduction simplifies complex electrical networks to address computational challenges of large-scale transmission and distribution grids. Traditional network reduction methods are often based on a predefined set of nodes or lines to…
Sufficient conditions are derived for global asymptotic synchronization in a system of identical nonlinear electrical circuits coupled through linear time-invariant (LTI) electrical networks. In particular, the conditions we derive apply to…
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…
Electrical networks contain thousands of interconnected nodes and edges, which leads to computational challenges in some power system studies. To address these challenges, we contend that network reductions can serve as a framework to…
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 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…
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…
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…
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-…
Network systems consist of subsystems and their interconnections, and provide a powerful framework for analysis, modeling and control of complex systems. However, subsystems may have high-dimensional dynamics, and the amount and nature of…