Parallel Dynamic and Transient Simulation of Large-Scale Power Systems

Overview of Massively Parallel Processors.- Large-Scale Transient Stability Simulation of AC Systems.- Large-Scale Electromagnetic Transient Simulation of AC Systems.- Power Electronic Switch Models.- Large-Scale Electromagnetic Transient Simulation of DC Grids.- Hybrid Transient and Dynamic Simulation of Large-Scale AC-DC Grids Integrated with Renewable Energy.- Parallel-in-Time Transient Stability and EMT Simulation of AC-DC Grids.- Multi-Physics EMT Simulation of AC-DC Grids.

Venkata Dinavahi, PhD, is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), the M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. His research interests include real-time simulation of power systems and power electronic systems, electromagnetic transients, device-level modeling, large-scale systems, and parallel and distributed computing. Professor Dinavahi was the founding chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Task Force on Interfacing Techniques for Simulation Tools from 2006-2014, and actively participates in several IEEE PES committees, notably in the Working Group on Modeling and Analysis of System Transients. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and over 60 articles in international conference proceedings. His research works have been cited over 7,000 times with an h-index of 44. He is a Fellow of IEEE and was the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Engineer Award from the IEEE PES/IAS Northern Canada Chapter. He is a member of CIGRÉ (International Council on Large Electric Systems) and a Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta.

Ning Lin, PhD, is a Power Systems Engineer at Powertech Labs Inc. in Surrey, British Columbia. He received the BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta in 2018. Dr. Lin was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta in 2018 and worked as an engineer on power system automation, flexible AC transmission system (FACTS), and high-voltage direct current (HVDC) from 2011 to 2014. He is a Member of the IEEE. His research interests include