My guess is that it may require a different power flow formulation, namely one that is specifically designed for radial distribution systems. Feel free to look at my dissertation and the references in it for some ideas.
-- Ray Zimmerman Senior Research Associate 419A Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 phone: (607) 255-9645 On Oct 5, 2012, at 2:37 AM, Zeinab Ghofrani <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all; > > I'm tryning to run power flow on the 32 bus distribution system described in > the following paper: > M. E. Baran and F. F. Wu, “Network Reconfiguration in Distribution Systems > for Loss Reduction and Load Balancing”, IEEE Trans on Power Delivery, 1989, > Vol 4(2), pp > 1401-1407. > I have chnaged the place of the tie switches so that the modified system has > a long latteral with high voltage drop. The power flow doesn't converge, > unless we set Vg of mpc.gen matrix to 1.3. How can I have a converged load > flow when Vg is set to 1? > The data I use is attached to this email. Waiting for your reply. > > Zeinab Ghofrani > <case_dist_32bus.m>
