The purpose of this book is to present and demonstrate an alternative simulation approach to simulate power system transients. Toward this end, the approach adopted is tailored to multicore computers, and its usefulness is justified by comparing the runtime against a widely-used commercial simulation tool. The development of multicore solver needs expertise from two areas: power system engineering and software engineering. Bridging these two areas often requires the collaboration of a team of professionals to complete the development in acceptable time.

Chapter Contents:

• 1.1 Scope and purpose
• 1.2 Assumed background
• 1.3 Contributions
• 1.4 Statement of the problem and hypothesis
• 1.5 Organization

Inspec keywords: power system transients; power system simulation

Other keywords: software engineering; multicore computer; power system transient simulation; commercial simulation tool; power system engineering

Subjects: Power system control; Power engineering computing