That is correct. MATPOWER uses pretty standard formulations of the power flow and optimal power flow problems. See the details of the problem formulations in the Users’s Manual.
-- Ray Zimmerman Senior Research Associate B30 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 phone: (607) 255-9645 On Dec 8, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Aftognosia Aftognosia <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Dr Zimmerman, > > I am running an OPF for a network, and I can see that the voltage limits on > the buses are respected. > Ie 0.9, 1.1 pu. The OPF yields a non-convergence result > > If I run a Power Flow on the same network, I see that it yields voltages that > are 0.8pu, 0.75 pu etc. > And it converges. > It seems that the power flow does not respect the voltage limits (min, max) > of 0.9 and 1.1 pu. > > In other words, the voltage limits per bus, on matpower only apply on OPF ? > > Thank you
