Next generation electromagnetic transient simulation tool for large-scale power systems with detailed equipment models

电力系统是由发电机、变压器、输电线路、用户负荷等各种设备组成的最大的人工地理分布非线性结构，跨越数千公里。电磁暂态仿真（EMT）工具用于分析和解决电力系统中的主要运行和控制问题。大规模电力系统的EMT仿真 ** 消耗大量的计算能力，因此在这一领域迫切需要并行编程技术。**目前可用的EMT仿真工具被设计为在单核CPU上运行，因此不能 ** 利用多核CPU和众核图形处理器（GPU）来管理计算 ** 负载。当处理单元具有足够的硬件内核时，大规模线程计算是可以显著提高EMT计算能力的关键发展之一。该项目的目的是 ** 开发一系列创新，以实现GPU和多核CPU硬件架构上大规模 ** 电源系统的并行双线程EMT模拟器。这项工作的主要特点是 ** 设计和建立各种电力系统和电力电子元件的双线程模型，有限元和有限差分时域模型，高效的数值算法，先进的数据分析和 ** 可视化，以及仿真器的验证。**该项目的结果预计将证明功能并行双线程EMT模拟器 ** 的可行性，它可以在使用非常详细的系统 ** 组件模型的同时，在大规模系统仿真中实现计算速度的提高。该项目的主要受益者将是马尼托巴HVDC研究中心（MHRC）**，该中心可以将开发的创新集成到其旗舰EMT仿真工具PSCAD/EMTDC中。在该项目中培训的经验丰富的高素质工程师团队将有助于EMT模拟技术的持续 ** 进步，并可能成为MHRC未来的宝贵员工。

Electrical power systems are the largest man-made geographically distributed nonlinear structures that are**composed of a variety of equipment such as generators, transformers, transmission lines, customer loads,**spanning thousands of kilometers. Electromagnetic transient simulation (EMT) tools are used analyze and**solve major operational and control problems in power systems. EMT simulation of large-scale power systems**consumes so much computational power that parallel programming techniques are urgently needed in this area.**Currently available EMT simulation tools were designed to run on single-core CPUs, and therefore, cannot**take advantage of the multi-core CPUs and many-core graphics processors (GPUs) to manage computational**load. Massive-thread computing is one of the key developments that can increase the EMT computational**capabilities substantially when the processing unit has enough hardware cores. The aim of this project is to**develop a host of innovations towards implementing a parallel massive-thread EMT simulator for large-scale**power systems on the GPU and multi-core CPU hardware architectures. The main features of this work is to**design and build massive-thread models for various power system and power electronic components, finite**element and finite difference time domain models, efficient numerical algorithms, advanced data analysis and**visualization, and validation of the simulator.**The project results are expected to prove the feasibility of a functional parallel massive-thread EMT simulator**that can achieve computational speed-up in large-scale system simulation while using very detailed system**component models. The main beneficiary of this project will be Manitoba HVDC Research Centre (MHRC)**which can integrate the developed innovations into their flagship EMT simulation tool PSCAD/EMTDC. The**experienced team of highly qualified engineers trained in this project will contribute to the ongoing**advancement of the EMT simulation technology and may prove to be valuable future employees for MHRC.