Creating an Electromagnetic Transients Program in MATLAB: MatEMTP

Author

Mahseredjian, Jean ; Alvarado, Fernando

Author_Institution

Inst. de Recherche, Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Que., Canada

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

1997

fDate

1/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

380

Lastpage

388

Abstract

The traditional method for developing electric network analysis computer programs is based on coding using a conventional computer language: FORTRAN, C or Pascal. The programming language of the EMTP (Electromagnetic Transients Program) is FORTRAN-77. Such a program has a closed architecture and uses a large number of code lines to satisfy requirements ranging from low level data manipulation to the actual solution mathematics which eventually become diluted and almost impossible to visualize. This paper proposes a new design idea suitable for EMTP re-development in a high level programming context. It presents the creation of the transient analysis numerical simulator MatEMTP in the computational engine frame of MATLAB. This new approach to software engineering can afford a dramatic coding simplification for sophisticated algorithmic structures

Keywords

power system analysis computing; power system transients; software engineering; time-domain analysis; EMTP; Electromagnetic Transients Program; FORTRAN-77; MATLAB; MatEMTP; closed architecture; coding simplification; electric network analysis computer programs; high level programming context; programming language; software engineering; sophisticated algorithmic structures; time domain network analysis; transient analysis numerical simulator; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Computer networks; Data visualization; EMTP; MATLAB; Mathematics; Transient analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/61.568262

Filename

568262