Team algorithms in distributed load flow computations

This paper reports the use of a general technique to combine several different methods to solve complex systems of algebraic equations in the context of load flow calculations of electrical power networks. Such a combinations of methods, referred to as `team algorithms´, seem specially well suited to be used with distributed memory computer systems, in an asynchronous environment. Experimental results solving example problems in a commercially available parallel computer system show that a `synergetic effect´ with considerable speedup can be obtained using these `team algorithms´