Damping of inter-area electromechanical oscillations is one of the major challenges to the electric power system operators. This paper presents Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) for tuning Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC) based damping controller to improve power system oscillation stability. In the proposed algorithm, the searcher agents are a collection of masses which interact...

This paper investigates over-voltage transients on ac induction motors when connected through a cable of arbitrary length to a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) consisting of a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) inverter with Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) power devices. Factors contributing to a motor over-voltage transient equal to a theoretical twice dc bus voltage are first described using...

The present investigation deals with study of thermoelastic damping and frequency shift of Kirchhoff plate resonators by using generalized thermoelasticity theory of dual-phase-lag model. The basic equations of motion and heat conduction equation are written with the help of Kirchhoff-Love plate theory and dual phase lag model. The analytical expressions for thermoelastic damping and frequency ...

By using the generalized Riccati transformation and the inequality technique, we establish a oscillation criterion for certain non-linear secondorder dynamic equations with damping on a time scale.

Experiments on patients with Parkinsonism showed that the damping factor was lowered, so that, a tension stimulus being without supraspinal effect, oscillation occurred.

In this paper, we study the oscillation of a class of second-order nonlinear neutral damped variable delay dynamic equations on time scales. By using a generalized Riccati transformation technique, we obtain some sufficient conditions for the oscillation of the equations. The results of this paper improve and extend some known results. We also illustrate our main results with some examples. Key...

This paper proposes a new control approach for a unified power flow controller (UPFC) for power system oscillation damping. This control is simple to implement, yet is valid over a wide range of operating conditions. It is also effective in the presence of multiple modes of oscillation. The proposed control is implemented in several test systems and is compared against a traditional PI control.

Ocean models in box geometry forced by constant surface fluxes of density have been found to spontaneously generate interdecadal oscillations of the thermohaline circulation. This paper analyzes the sensitivity of these oscillations to various physical effects, including the presence of mesoscale turbulence, various thermal surface boundary conditions, and the presence of wind forcing or bottom...

We obtain the quasinormal modes for tensor perturbations of Gauss-Bonnet black holes in d = 5, 7, 8 dimension using third order WKB formalism. The black hole in d = 6 is not considered because of the fact that it is unstable to tensor mode perturbations. For the uncharged Gauss-Bonnet black hole the real part of the frequency increases as the GaussBonnet coupling (α) increases. The imaginary pa...

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, B.N. College of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India --------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract This paper presents design and analysis of UPFC based power oscillation damping controller. The PhillipsHeffron model ...