Visualizing Electrical Power Systems as Flow Fields

Samantha Molnar; Kenny Gruchalla

doi:10.2312/envirvis.20181139

Visualizing Electrical Power Systems as Flow Fields

Samantha Molnar, Kenny Gruchalla

Computational Science

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Abstract

We describe a method for visualizing data flows on large networks. We transform data flow on fixed networks into a vector field, which can be directly visualized using scientific flow visualization techniques. We evaluated the method on power flowing through two transmission power networks: a small, regional, IEEE test system (RTS-96) and a large national-scale system (the Eastern Interconnection). For the larger and more complex transmission system, the method illustrates features of the power flow that are not accessible when visualizing the power transmission with traditional network visualization techniques.

Original language	American English
Pages	63-71
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2312/envirvis.20181139
State	Published - 2018
Event	6th Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, EnvirVis 2018 at EuroVis 2018 - Brno, Czech Republic Duration: 4 Jun 2018 → …

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Conference	6th Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, EnvirVis 2018 at EuroVis 2018
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Brno
Period	4/06/18 → …

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© 2018 The Author(s) Eurographics Proceedings © 2018 The Eurographics Association.

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NREL/CP-2C00-71283

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electrical power systems
large networks
visualization

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