Re: Question about sparsity-based implementation in MATPower

2015-10-22 Thread Jose Luis Marin
Hello Shri, Most of the testing we did was on CHOLMOD, as the matrices in our problem (from a variant of our HELM algorithm) were symmetric. We found that the simplicial option was always much faster than the supernodal one, since the "supernodes" were always too small. We never got around to

Re: Question about sparsity-based implementation in MATPower

2015-10-22 Thread Shruti Rao
Greetings Dr. Marin, In the variant of HELM, do you use backslash as well? The reason I ask this question is, one of the advantages of the HELM is that the matrix does not change for a given static problem (not considering bus-type switching and tap changing etc.). As far as I know and I might be

psse2mpc conversion: bug in transformers with impedance code CZ=3?

2015-10-22 Thread Jose Luis Marin
Hello Ray, I think I may have found a bug in *psse2mpc*, which concerns the calculation of R,X for transformers when these are specified with *"Impedance Code" CZ=3*. The PSS/E docs decribing the RAW format specify that, when CZ=3, the values in the file are: - R1-2 is the transformer load