arma-flow

A simple power flow calculator using Newton's method.

1. Requirements

• A newer version of Armadillo

  • Tested on 8.400.0

• The Options library

• Compiler with supports C++17

2. Documentation

2.1 CLI options

• -h | --help : Prints the usage of arma-flow and exit.
• --version : Prints the version of arma-flow and exit.
• -o <output_file_prefix> : Prefix to output file. (Can be relative path)
• -n <node_data_file> : Path to node data file. (Can be relative path)
• -e <edge_data_file> : Path to edge data file. (Can be relative path)
• -r : Remove first line of input CSV files before parsing.
• -i <max_iterations> : Max number of iterations to be performed before aborting.
• -a <accuracy> : Max deviation to be tolerated.
• -v | --verbose : Output more text to STDOUT.

For example:

# Building arma-flow
git clone https://github.com/CismonX/arma-flow.git
cd arma-flow
make -j4
# Testing arma-flow
./arma-flow -n examples/3-gen-9-nodes/nodes.csv -e examples/3-gen-9-nodes/edges.csv -r

2.2 Input

Input node data file and edge data file should be of CSV format. Definition of each column is shown below:

2.2.1 Node data file

• Node voltage (PV nodes and swing node)
• Generator power (active power, PV nodes)
• Load power (active power, PQ and PV nodes)
• Load power (reactive power, PQ nodes)
• Node type (0 - swing node, 1- PQ node, 2 - PV node)

2.2.2 Edge data file

• First node id (equal to node data row offset, start at 0)
• Second node id (equal to node data row offset, start at 0)
• Resistance (real) -- R
• Resistance (imaginary) -- X
• Gounding admittance (divided by two) -- B/2
• Transformer ratio -- k

2.3 Output

The node admittance matrix and result of power flow calculation of the given system will be written to CSV files. If in verbose mode, some temporary data during calculation is printed to STDOUT.

• Note that the nodes are sorted before calculation, sequence of nodes in some verbose output may not be the same as input file.

2.3.1 Node admittance matrix

The real part and imaginary part of node admittance matrix will be printed to "<prefix>node-admittance-real.csv" and "<prefix>node-admittance-imag.csv".

2.3.2 Calculation result

The result of power flow calculation will be printed to "<prefix>result.csv". The definition of each column is given below:

• Node voltage
• Phase angle of node voltage (Radian)
• Node power (active)
• Node power (reactive)