There is nothing structural that prevents MATPOWER from being used with a 
radial system. Depending on the parameters of the system, however, a Newton 
power flow may not converge to a solution from a flat start, but there is not 
guarantee of this for any system.

-- 
Ray Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate
B30 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
phone: (607) 255-9645





On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Muhammad Buhari 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Pls can su help me confirm if matpower can be used for radial systems. I 
> tried it never converges on a UKGDS network.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Muhammad Buhari
> 
> PhD student
> 
> Electrical Energy and Power Systems Research group,
> 
> University of Manchester, UK
> 
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