Model Reduction for Analysis of Cascading Failures in Power Systems

Parillo, P. A., S. Lall, F. Paganini, G. C. Verghese, B. C. Lesieutre and J. E. Marsden

Proc. Amer. Control Conf., 4028-4212

Abstract:

In this paper, we apply a principal-orthogonal decomposition based method to the model reduction of a hybrid, nonlinear model of a power network. The results demonstrate that the sequence of fault events can be evaluated and predicted without necessarily simulating the whole system.