Electrical Transmission System Cascades and Vulnerability

Daniel Bienstock is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, with a joint affiliation to the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Prior to joining Columbia University, Professor Bienstock was in the combinatorics and optimization research group at Bellcore. He has also participated in collaborative research with several industrial partners. He received the 2013 INFORMS Fellow Award, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and an IBM Faculty Award and has given both a plenary address at the 2005 SIAM Conference on Optimization and a semi-plenary at the 2006 ISMP conference. His research focuses on optimization and high-performance computing, with a second focus on the use of computational mathematics in the analysis and control of power grids, especially the study of vulnerabilities and of cascading blackouts.

Preface Chapter 1: Power engineering basics Chapter 2: Computations with the AC power flow model Chapter 3: N-K problem Chapter 4: Modeling transmission system cascades: A survey Chapter 5: Toward more comprehensive cascade models Chapter 6: Online cascade control Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Complete power flow derivations Index.