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Power-grid vulnerability and its relation with network structure

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Autor(es):
Dias, Jussara ; Montanari, Arthur N. ; Macau, Elbert E. N.
Número total de Autores: 3
Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
Fonte: Chaos; v. 33, n. 3, p. 10-pg., 2023-03-01.
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Interconnected systems with critical infrastructures can be affected by small failures that may trigger a large-scale cascade of failures, such as blackouts in power grids. Vulnerability indices provide quantitative measures of a network resilience to component failures, assessing the break of information or energy flow in a system. Here, we focus on a network vulnerability analysis, that is, indices based solely on the network structure and its static characteristics, which are reliably available for most complex networks. This work studies the structural connectivity of power grids, assessing the main centrality measures in network science to identify vulnerable components (transmission lines or edges) to attacks and failures. Specifically, we consider centrality measures that implicitly model the power flow distribution in power systems. This framework allow us to show that the efficiency of the power flow in a grid can be highly sensitive to attacks on specific (central) edges. Numerical results are presented for randomly generated power-grid models and established power-grid benchmarks, where we demonstrate that the system's energy efficiency is more vulnerable to attacks on edges that are central to the power flow distribution. We expect that the vulnerability indices investigated in our work can be used to guide the design of structurally resilient power grids. (AU)

Processo FAPESP: 15/50122-0 - Fenômenos dinâmicos em redes complexas: fundamentos e aplicações
Beneficiário:Elbert Einstein Nehrer Macau
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático
Processo FAPESP: 18/03211-6 - Dinâmica não linear
Beneficiário:Iberê Luiz Caldas
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático