Parallel domain decomposition simulation for large-scale power grid

This paper presents a fully parallelized domain decomposition (DD) technique for efficient simulation of large-scale linear circuits such as power grids. Domain decompositions using non-overlapping and overlapping partitions are developed to conquer the numerical difficulties in simulation. Experimental results show that by the proposed parallel DD framework, existing linear circuit simulators can be improved for large-scale power grids. Detailed analysis indicate that DD combining multi-grid is suitable for DC simulation and that DD combining LU decomposition performs best for transient simulations.