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The stable operation of the electric power grid relies on a precisely synchronized state of all generators and machines. All machines rotate at exactly the same frequency with fixed phase differences, leading to steady power flows…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-01-09 Chiara Balestra , Franz Kaiser , Debsankha Manik , Dirk Witthaut

Many fluctuating systems consist of macroscopic structures in addition to noisy signals. Thus, for this class of fluctuating systems, the scaling behaviors are very complicated. Such phenomena are quite commonly observed in Nature, ranging…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ning-Ning Pang , Hisen-Ching Kao , Wen-Jer Tzeng

Traditionally, inertia in power systems has been determined by considering all the rotating masses directly connected to the grid. During the last decade, the integration of renewable energy sources, mainly photovoltaic installations and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Ana Fernández-Guillamón , Emilio Gómez-Lázaro , Eduard Muljadi , Angel Molina-García

A full understanding of transport in dense, interacting suspensions requires analysis frameworks sensitive to self and collective dynamics across all relevant spatial and temporal scales. Here we introduce a trajectory-free approach to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-22 Eleanor K. R. Mackay , Anna Drummond Young , Adam Carter , Sophie Marbach , Alice L. Thorneywork

The frequency of occurrence of prime numbers at unit number spacing intervals exhibits selfsimilar fractal fluctuations concomitant with inverse power law form for power spectrum generic to dynamical systems in nature such as fluid flows,…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-13 A. M. Selvam

In this paper, we study a constrained network flow problem and associated networked dynamics that resemble but are distinct from the well-known primal-dual dynamics of the constrained flow problem. Crucially, under a change of coordinates,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Amirhossein Iraniparast , Dominic Groß

Higher penetration of renewable generation will increase the demand for adequate (and cost-effective) controllable resources on the grid that can mitigate and contain the contingencies locally before it can cause a network-wide collapse.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Sai Pushpak Nandanoori , Soumya Kundu , Draguna Vrabie , Karan Kalsi , Jianming Lian

Because of the broken time-translation symmetry, in periodically driven vibrational systems fluctuations of different vibration components have different intensities. Fluctuations of one of the components are often squeezed, whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 J. S. Huber , G. Rastelli , M. J. Seitner , J. Kölbl , W. Belzig , M. I. Dykman , E. M. Weig

This paper investigates the performance of a microgrid with droop-controlled inverters in terms of the total power losses incurred in maintaining synchrony under persistent small disturbances. The inverters are modeled with variable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Emma Tegling , Dennice F. Gayme , Henrik Sandberg

We study synchronous phenomena of a coarse-grained power grid model, the swing equation, on small-world networks. We show that its steady state, which stands for the normal operation of the power systems, can be realized even if the phases…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-01-29 Eiichi Sasaki , Masayuki Ohzeki , Yoshito Ohta

A major aspect in power line distribution networks is the constant monitoring of the network properties. With the advent of the smart grid concept, distributed monitoring has started complementing the information of the central stations. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-07 Federico Passerini , Andrea M. Tonello

We analyze the microscopic dynamics of vortex motion through channels that form river-like fractal networks in a variety of superconducting samples, and relate it to macroscopic measurable quantities such as the power spectrum. As a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 C. J. Olson , C. Reichhardt , Franco Nori

High transition temperature superconductors in cuprates exhibit the charge-density-wave fluctuations and the ferromagnetic time-reversal-symmetry-breaking fluctuation in the polar Kerr rotation experiments. We demonstrate that they share…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-06 Mu-Kun Lee , Tsung-Sheng Huang , Chyh-Hong Chern

While electric power grids play a key role in the decarbonization of society, it remains unclear how recent trends, such as the strong integration of renewable energies, can affect their stability. Power oscillation modes, which are key to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-28 Pierrick Guichard , Nicolas Retière , Didier Mayou

In this work, we study the dynamical robustness in a system consisting of both active and inactive oscillators. We analytically show that the dynamical robustness of such system is determined by the cross link density between active and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-03-01 Wenwen Huang , Xiyun Zhang , Xin Hu , Zonghua Liu , Shuguang Guan

Low-order frequency response models for power systems have a decades-long history in optimization and control problems such as unit commitment, economic dispatch, and wide-area control. With a few exceptions, these models are built upon the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Marena Trujillo , Amir Sajadi , Bri-Mathias Hodge

We show how, based on considerations on the observed form of the galaxy 2-point spatial correlation function xi(r), a very simplified -- yet surprisingly effective -- model for the linear density fluctuations power spectrum can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Enzo Branchini , Luigi Guzzo , Riccardo Valdarnini

Non-equilibrium random fluctuations of non-thermal nature are a salient feature of active matter. In this work, we consider the collective excitations of active systems at high density, focusing on a one-dimensional chain of elastically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

We evaluate the average and the standard deviation of the supercurrent in superconducting nanobridges, as functions of the temperature and the phase difference, in an equilibrium situation. We also evaluate the autocorrelation of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-30 Jorge Berger

The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources has been leading to the progressive phase-out of synchronous generators, which constitute the main source of frequency stability for electric power systems. In the light of these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Davide del Giudice , Angelo Brambilla , Samuele Grillo , Federico Bizzarri