Separation of Models for the Distributed Simulation of Electric Grids

Abstract:
Due to the expansion of regenerative energy production the task of providing a stable electrical power supply increases in complexity. Simulations of such dynamic systems, e.g. to test new control strategies, require increasingly complex models, accordingly. While the clock frequency of modern central processing units remains at around 4-5 GHz, the number of cores increases significantly. Therefore, approaches for the parallel simulation of complex models should be developed in order to use the computation power of all CPU cores. In the following sections a method is proposed to separate a complex model for the simulation on a computer cluster. An appropriate numerical solver is chosen, as well.