DPsim

DPsim is a real-time capable power system simulator that supports dynamic phasor and electromagnetic transient simulation as well as continuous powerflow. It primarily targets large-scale scenarios on commercial off-the-sheld hardware that require deterministic time steps in the range of micro- to milliseconds.

DPsim supports the CIM format as native input for the description of electrical network topologies, component parameters and load flow data, which is used for initialization. For this purpose, CIM++ is integrated in DPsim. Users interact with the C++ simulation kernel via Python bindings, which can be used to script the execution, schedule events, change parameters and retrieve results. Supported by the availability of existing Python frameworks like Numpy, Pandas and Matplotlib, Python scripts have been proven as an easy and flexible way to codify the complete workflow of a simulation from modelling to analysis and plotting, for example in Jupyter notebooks.

The DPsim simulation kernel is implemented in C++ and uses the Eigen linear algebra library. By using a system programming language like C++ and a highly optimized math library, optimal performance and real-time execution can be guaranteed. The integration into the VILLASframework allows DPsim to be used in large-scale co-simulations.

Links

• Documentation
• Source Code
• Docker Image

For further questions please consider joining our Slack channel: FEIN Aachen e.V. Slack.

Publications

DPsim is presented and/or used by the following publications:

• M. Mirz, S. Vogel, G. Reinke, A. Monti, “DPsim—A dynamic phasor real-time simulator for power systems,” SoftwareX, Volume 10, July–December 2019, 100253.
• M. Mirz, A. Estebsari, F. Arrigo, E. Bompard and A. Monti, “Dynamic phasors to enable distributed real-time simulation,” 2017 6th International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), Santa Margherita Ligure, 2017, pp. 139-144.
• M. Mirz, A. Monti, A. Estebsari, F. Arrigo, E. Bompard, “Functionality of the releases of the real time solver V1,” RESERVE Library, 2017.
• M. Mirz, S. Vogel, A. Monti, “First Interconnection test of the nodes in pan-European simulation platform,” RESERVE Library, 2017.
• S. Vogel, M. Mirz, L. Razik, A. Monti, “An Open Solution for Next-generation Real-time Power System Simulation,” 1st IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (IEEE-EI^2), Beijing, 2017.

Contact

• Markus Mirz (mmirz@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de)
• Jan Dinkelbach (jdinkelbach@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de)

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS) EON Energy Research Center (EONERC) RWTH University Aachen, Germany