Modeling and Simulation of Complex Power Systems

Antonello Monti is the professor-director at the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Prior to this, he worked at the University of South Carolina (USA), where he was associate director of the Virtual Test Bed (VTB) project on computational simulation and visualisation of modern power distribution. Since 2019 he has also a joined appointment at Fraunhofer FIT as part of the Center for Digital Energy Aachen.Andrea Benigni is a full professor at RWTH-Aachen and director of the Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Energy Systems Engineering (IEK-10) at the Juelich research center, Germany. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Politecnico di Milano, Milano and the Ph.D. degree from RWTH-Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. From 2014 to 2019, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Digital simulationChapter 3: Nodal methodsChapter 4: State-space methodsChapter 5: Parallelization methodsChapter 6: Simulation under uncertaintyChapter 7: Simulation language specification - ModelicaChapter 8: Dynamic phasorsChapter 9: Modeling of converters as switching circuitsChapter 10: Real-time and hardware-in-the-loop simulationChapter 11: Octsim/a solver for dynamic system simulation