Research tools that may (or may not) be useful.
The tools listed below are research-grade (i.e., not intended for commercial use) works-in-progress.
DCSIMSEP: A DC (SIM)ulators of (SEP)aration in power systems
DCSIMSEP is a relatively simple simulator of cascading failure in power systems. It is similar in design to the "open-loop" version of the OPA cascading failure simulator, though perhaps somewhat less optimistic, since it does not (by default) use any particular stress-mitigating control actions to mitigate overloads---the assumption being that the cascades are propagating too fast to allow operators to enact such actions.
The matlab source for DCSIMSEP is available on github.
Papers that have used DCSIMSEP include:- Pooya Rezaei, Paul Hines and Margaret Eppstein, Estimating Cascading Failure Risk with Random Chemistry, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 5, 2015. [arXiv preprint].
- Margaret J. Eppstein and Paul D. H. Hines. A "Random Chemistry" Algorithm for Identifying Collections of Multiple Contingencies that Initiate Cascading Failure. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 27, no. 3, 2012. [preprint]
- P. Hines, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, S. Blumsack. Do topological models provide good information about vulnerability in electric power networks? Chaos: An interdisciplinary journal of non-linear science. vol. 20, no. 3, 2010. [arXiv preprint].
ACSIMSEP: An AC (SIM)ulators of (SEP)aration in power systems
[Coming soon]COSMIC: Cascading Outage Simulator with Multiprocess Integration Capabilities
COSMIC is a dynamic cascading outage simulator in power systems. Source for COSMIC is available on github. For details about COSMIC, see:
- Jiajia Song, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Goodarz Ghanavati, Paul D. H. Hines, Dynamic Modeling of Cascading Failure in Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, in press, 2015. [arXiv preprint].