Creating an Electromagnetic Transients Program in MATLAB: MatEMTP

The traditional method for developing electric network analysis computer programs is based on coding using a conventional computer language: FORTRAN, C or Pascal. The programming language of the EMTP (Electromagnetic Transients Program) is FORTRAN-77. Such a program has a closed architecture and uses a large number of code lines to satisfy requirements ranging from low level data manipulation to the actual solution mathematics which eventually become diluted and almost impossible to visualize. This paper proposes a new design idea suitable for EMTP re-development in a high level programming context. It presents the creation of the transient analysis numerical simulator MatEMTP in the computational engine frame of MATLAB. This new approach to software engineering can afford a dramatic coding simplification for sophisticated algorithmic structures.