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The course provides the background to understand the principles, capabilities, and limitations of circuit design programs like SPICE for electronic circuits and the EMTP for power systems. Topics include the discretization of differential equations, selection of step size Delta-t, solution bandwidth, numerical oscillations, propagation in transmission lines, frequency dependence, nonlinear elements, and network equivalents.
Course evaluation is based on project assignments. Typically eight or nine assignments are given during the term. In the assignments, the students are asked to write their own computer programs to solve cases illustrating the techniques discussed in the lectures. The students are asked to compare the results from their own programs with those obtained running the MicroTran(R) software (EMTP). A limited version of MicroTran will be available to the students.
Dr. José R. Martí, MCLD 417
Topic 1: Time domain solution of electric transients. The EMTP and SPICE
simulators. Component modelling requirements. Integration rules for the
discretization of basic R, L, C components. Step size
Δt requirements. Representation of switching
operations.
Topic 2: Wave propagation in ideal transmission lines. Simplified line models.
Wave propagation in lines with losses and frequency-dependent parameters.
Topic 3: Time domain equivalents for frequency dependent lumped and distributed
parameter systems. Frequency dependent transmission line models.
Topic 4: Coupled multiconductor transmission line modelling. Eigenvalue/eigenvector
analysis. System decoupling through similarity transformations.
Topic 5: Numerical discretization techniques. Time-step size and frequency
bandwidth. Distortion of the circuit parameters. Numerical stability. Numerical
oscillations. Elimination of numerical oscillations. Critical damping adjustment
(CDA).
Topic 6: Modelling of nonlinear elements. Piecewise and continuous
nonlinearities.
Topic 7: Large network solutions. Sparsity techniques. Modified nodal analysis (MNA).
Partitioning techniques. Diakoptics. Multi-Area Thevenin Equivalents (MATE).
Time latency techniques for multirate systems.