Optimization of Power Flow Computation Methods

Power flow computations are a cornerstone of many simulations regarding the electric grid. This thesis evaluates the landscape of power flow computation methods with a focus on practical computational performance in large-scale simulations, as they occur in modern distribution grid planning. The investigation involves various model assumptions, different algorithms, implementation details, and unconventional computational optimization methods. As a result, the implementations devised in this thesis are up to a thousand times faster for large scale grid simulations than established solutions.

Christoph Kattmann was born in 1987 in Hannover, Germany and studied Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart. He went on to work as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Power Transmission and High Voltage Technology. Since 2018, he is the CEO of BSS Hochspannungstechnik GmbH.