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Analysis of a power grid using a Kuramoto-like model

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We show that there is a link between the Kuramoto paradigm and another system of synchronized oscillators, namely an electrical power distribution grid of generators and consumers. The purpose of this work is to show both the formal analogy and some practical consequences. The mapping can be made quantitative, and under some necessary approximations a class of Kuramoto-like models, those with bimodal distribution of the frequencies, is most appropriate for the power-grid. In fact in the power-grid there are two kinds of oscillators: the “sources" delivering power to the “consumers".

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Filatrella, G., Nielsen, A. & Pedersen, N. Analysis of a power grid using a Kuramoto-like model. Eur. Phys. J. B 61, 485–491 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00098-8

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