A computation of power system characteristic by general homotopy and investigation of its stability

Presents an application of a general homotopy method to the computation of the characteristics of a power system such as PV curves. The load flow equations are derived from a set of nonlinear differential and algebraic equations. A homotopy continuation method is used for following the characteristics of the power system. The stability of the load flow solutions is discussed by deriving the variational equation.<
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