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Traditional Power Flow Solvers

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As long as there have been power systems, there have been power flow studies. This chapter discusses the two traditional methods to solve power flow problems: Newton power flow and Fast Decoupled Load Flow (FDLF).

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Idema, R., Lahaye, D.J.P. (2014). Traditional Power Flow Solvers. In: Computational Methods in Power System Analysis. Atlantis Studies in Scientific Computing in Electromagnetics, vol 1. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-064-5_7

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