Abstract-For the nonlinear power flow problem specified with standard PQ, PV, and slack bus equality constraints, we present a sufficient condition under which the specified set of nonlinear algebraic equations has no solution. This sufficient condition is constructed in a framework of an associated feasible, convex optimization problem. The objective employed in this optimization problem yields a measure of distance (in a parameter set) to the power flow solution boundary. In practical terms, this distance is closely related to quantities that previous authors have proposed as voltage stability margins. A typical margin is expressed in terms of the parameters of system loading (injected powers); here we additionally introduce a new margin in terms of the parameters of regulated bus voltages.
In REF , the authors propose a sufficient condition for the insolvability of the PF equations based on a convex relaxation.
A Sufficient Condition for Power Flow Insolvability with Applications to Voltage Stability Margins
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 2592-2601, August 2013
Mathematics