Real-time simulation of a medium scale distribution network: Decoupling method for multi-CPU computation

The paper proposes a methodology to model and simulate a medium scale distribution network with several feeders in a real-time multi-core environment. Due to the small length of the lines, this type of simulation is still quite challenging especially when several cores are addressed to compute the simulation. Problems of model conditioning for multi-core computing are discussed. Validation results are then presented. The data of the considered medium scale distribution network are related to a real French 20 kV power system. The used realtime simulator is RT-LAB.