Solar PV and wind energy are the most important renewable sources after hydroelectric with regard to installed capacity, research spending attaining grid parity. These sources, including battery storage systems, well-established load modeling have been pivotal success of planning operation electric microgrids. One major challenges in renewable-based DGs, storage, loads microgrids is uncertainty...

In this paper we present a load balancing method for parallel simulation of accuracy adaptive transaction level models. In contrast to traditional fixed accuracy TLMs, timing accuracy of adaptive TLMs changes during simulation. This makes the computation and synchronization characteristics of the models variable, and practically prohibits the use of static load balancing. To deal with this issu...

Floating breakwaters are widely used due to their various advantages over stationary breakwaters. Lots of researches have been done on hydrodynamics and the type of bracing of these kinds of structures in recent years. In this study, numerical modeling of stresses caused by collision waves has been investigated. For this purpose, samples of floating breakwaters have been modeled in ANSYS softwa...

This paper investigates the problem of generation and load settings in a synthetic power grid modeling of high-voltage transmission network, considering both electrical parameters and topology measures. Our previous study indicated that the relative location of generation and load buses in a realistic grid are not random but correlated. And an entropy based optimization approach has been propos...

In practical situations, distribution network loads are the mixtures of residential, industrial, and commercial types. This paper presents a hybrid optimization algorithm for the optimal placement of shunt capacitor banks in radial distribution networks in the presence of different voltage-dependent load models. The algorithm is based on the combination of Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Binary Part...