Dr. Zimmerman, Thank you very much for your response.
Regards, Shruti On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Ray Zimmerman <r...@cornell.edu> wrote: > MATPOWER uses the voltage values from the bus and gen matrices to create > the starting point, so if you want a flat start … > > define_constants; > mpc = loadcase(<your case file>); > mpc.bus(:, VM) = 1; > mpc.bus(:, VA) = 0; > mpc.gen(:, VG) = 1; > results = runpf(mpc); > > — Ray > > > On Feb 18, 2015, at 8:37 PM, Shruti Rao <sra...@asu.edu> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does MATPower use flat start to get the initial estimate when solving the > power flow problem (The function runpf). I tried to find the answer to > this question in the manual but could not get an answer. If it does not use > flat start by default, is there a way I can make it use flat start? I was > not able to find any such option in the user manual that would force > MATPower to use flat start for getting the initial estimate. > > I appreciate your time and advice. > > Thank you, > Shruti Rao, > Arizona State University > > > -- Best Regards, Shruti Dwarkanath Rao Graduate Research Assistant School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, 85281 650 996 0116
