Current and Voltage Dependent Sources in EMTP-based Programs Benedito Donizeti Bonatto * Hermann Wilhelm Dommel Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia 2356 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1N4, Canada 2356 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1N4, Canada
[email protected] Abstract - This paper presents the fundamental concepts If the equations of the dependent sources are linear, they for the implementation of current and voltage dependent can be added directly to the system of the nodal equations sources in EMTP-based programs. These current and used in EMTP-based programs, if a linear equation solver for voltage dependent sources can be used to model many unsymmetric matrices is used. Another approach is based on electronic and electric circuits and devices, such as the compensation method, which is chosen here because operational amplifiers, etc., and also ideal transformers. nonlinear equations can easily be handled as well. As long as the equations of the dependent sources are This paper provides the fundamental equations for the linear, they could be added directly to the network implementation of dependent sources, as well as of equations, but the matrix will then become unsymmetric. ungrounded independent sources, in EMTP-based programs. Another alternative discussed here in more detail is based on the compensation method, which can also handle nonlinear effects with a Newton-Raphson II. COMPENSATION METHOD algorithm. Nonlinear effects arise with the inclusion of saturation or limits in the dependent sources. The The compensation method has long been used in EMTP- implementation of independent sources, which can also based programs for solving the equations of nonlinear be connected between two ungrounded nodes, is also elements with the Newton-Raphson iterative method.