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Developing a High Performance Computing Platform to Parallelize the Dynamic Contingency Analysis Tool (DCAT) for Cascading-Outage Analysis

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Database Management Module for Dynamic Contingency Analysis Tool Report  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344000070_Database_Management_Module_for_Dynamic_Contingency_Analysis_Tool

Chen Y., K.R. Glaesemann, X. Li, B.J. Palmer, R. Huang, and B. Vyakaranam. "A Generic Advanced Computing Framework for Executing Windows-based Dynamic Contingency Analysis Tool in Parallel on Cluster Machines." Presented at IEEE PES General Meeting 2020  (selected as one of the best conference papers)

G. Chin, B. McGary, K. Pierce, J. Woo, R. Rabello and Y. Chen, "A Dynamic Contingency Analysis Visualization Tool," 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281993.

Bharat Vyakaranam, P.V. Etingov, H. Wang, X. Li, M.A. Elizondo, D.V. Zarzhitsky, N.A. Samaan, A. Tbaileh, U. Agrawal, Y. Chen, T.B. Nguyen, Q. Nguyen, S. Davis, V. Chalishazar, " Database Management Module Framework for Dynamic Contingency Analysis and Visualization." 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281566.

Bharat Vyakaranam, N.A. Samaan, X. Li, R. Huang, Y. Chen, M.R. Vallem, and T.B. Nguyen, et al. “Dynamic Contingency Analysis Tool 2.0 User Manual with Test System Examples,” September 2019.

Bharat Vyakaranam, Nader A Samaan, Renke Huang, Samuel T Ojetola, “Dynamic Contingency Analysis Tool (DCAT) User Manual for Use with GE PSLF,” November 2018

Bharat Vyakaranam, Nader Samaan, Mallikarjuna Vallem, Renke Huang, Ruisheng Diao, Yuri Makarov, Brian Thomas, and Bill Price. 2018. "Modeling of Protection Relays using Generic Models in System Wide Power System Dynamic Simulation Studies." In 2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. At Portland, Oregon, US. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2018.8586612

Feng Dong, Bharat Vyakaranam, Nader Samaan, Renke Huang, Brian Thomas, William W Price, Mallikarjuna Vallem. 2018. “Restoration of System Security with Optimized Corrective Actions” In 2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, At Portland, Oregon, US. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2018.8586309

Mallikarjuna Vallem, Bharat Vyakaranam, Ramakrishna Tipireddy, Jesse Holzer, Yuri Makarov, Nader Samaan. 2018. “Stochastic correlation analysis to rank the impact of intermittent wind generation on unreliability margins of power systems.” In 2018 PMAPS International Conference (PMAPS 2018). At Boise, Idaho, US. DOI: 10.1109/PMAPS.2018.8440541

Bharat Vyakaranam, Alan Berscheid, Mallikarjuna Vallem, Nader Samaan, Xinda Ke, Yuri Makarov, Jeff Dagle, Ruisheng Diao. 2018. “Novel Additions to DCAT to Analyze What-If Scenarios of Protection Maloperation and Intermittent Resources on Cascading Failures for Extreme Events.” In 2018 IEEE PES T&D Conference, At Denver, US. DOI: 10.1109/TDC.2018.8440491

Mallikarjuna R. Vallem, Bharat Vyakaranam, Jesse T. Holzer, Nader A. Samaan, Yuri V. Makarov, Ruisheng Diao, Qiuhua Huang, Xinda Ke. “Hybrid Cascading Outage Analysis of Extreme Events with Optimized Corrective Actions.” Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems (ISAP) 2017, At San Antonio, Texas, USA. DOI: 10.1109/ISAP.2017.8071375

Bharat Vyakaranam, Mallikarjuna Vallem, Tony Nguyen, Nader Samaan, Alan Berscheid, Yuri V. Makarov, Ruisheng Diao 2017. “A Study of the Impact of Peak Demand on Increasing Vulnerability of Cascading Failures to Extreme Contingency Events” In the 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting, At Chicago, IL, USA. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2017.8274656

Nader Samaan, Jeffery Dagle, Yuri Makarov, Ruisheng Diao, Bharat Vyakaranam, Bei Zhang, Mallikarjuna Vallem, Tony Nguyen, Frank Tuffner, Jose Conto, Sun Wook Kang. 2017. “Dynamic Contingency Analysis Tool (DCAT) User Manual with Test System Examples.”

Qiuhua Huang, Bharat Vyakaranam, Ruisheng Diao, Yuri Makarov, Nader Samaan, Mallikarjuna Vallem, Eli Pajuelo. 2017. “Modeling Zone-3 Protection with Generic Relay Models for Dynamic Contingency Analysis.” In IEEE PES GM 2017. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2017.8274534

Nader Samaan, Jeffery Dagle, Yuri Makarov, Ruisheng Diao, Mallikarjuna Vallem, Tony Nguyen, Laurie Miller, Bharat Vyakaranam, Frank Tuffner, M A Pai, Jose Conto, Sun Wook Kang. 2016. “Modeling of Protection in Dynamic Simulation Using Generic Relay Models and Settings.” In Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2016 IEEE, At Boston, USA. DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2016.7741981

Nader Samaan, Jeffery Dagle, Yuri Makarov, Ruisheng Diao, Mallikarjuna Vallem, Tony Nguyen, Laurie Miller, Bharat Vyakaranam, Shaobu Wang, Frank Tuffner, M A Pai. 2015. “Dynamic Contingency Analysis Tool – Phase 1.”

Yuri Makarov, Nader Samaan, Ruisheng Diao, Murali Kumbale, Yousu Chen, Ruchi Singh, Irina Green, and Mark P. Morgan. 2011. “Assessment of critical events corridors through multivariate cascading outages analysis” In Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/PES.2011.6039900

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