Towards faster solution of large power flow problems

Current and future developments in the power system industry demand fast power flow solvers for larger power flow problems. The established methods are no longer viable for such problems, as they are not scalable in the problem size. In this paper, the use of Newton-Krylov power flow methods is proposed, and a multitude of preconditioning...

On the convergence of inexact Newton methods

The inexact Newton method is widely used to solve systems of non-linear equations. It is well-known that forcing terms should be chosen relatively large at the start of the process, and be made smaller during the iteration process. This paper explores the mechanics behind this behavior theoretically using a simplified problem, and presents...

Scalable Newton-Krylov solver for very large power flow problems

The power flow problem is generally solved by the Newton-Raphson method with a sparse direct solver for the linear system of equations in each iteration. While this works fine for small power flow problems, we will show that for very large problems the direct solver is very slow and we present alternatives that scale much better in the problem...

Load flow literature survey

A minimal residual method for shifted skew-symmetric systems