5 papers
Natural Gas Maximal Load Delivery for Multi-contingency Analysis
Byron Tasseff, Carleton Coffrin, Russell Bent +2
As the use of renewable generation has increased, electric power systems have become increasingly reliant on natural gas-fired power plants as fast ramping sources for meeting fluc…
The Impacts of Convex Piecewise Linear Cost Formulations on AC Optimal Power Flow
Carleton Coffrin, Bernard Knueven, Jesse Holzer +1
Despite strong connections through shared application areas, research efforts on power market optimization (e.g., unit commitment) and power network optimization (e.g., optimal pow…
A Flexible Storage Model for Power Network Optimization
Frederik Geth, Carleton Coffrin, David M Fobes
This paper proposes a simple and flexible storage model for use in a variety of multi-period optimal power flow problems. The proposed model is designed for research use in a broad…
Exploring Benefits of Linear Solver Parallelism on Modern Nonlinear Optimization Applications
Byron Tasseff, Carleton Coffrin, Andreas Wächter +1
The advent of efficient interior point optimization methods has enabled the tractable solution of large-scale linear and nonlinear programming (NLP) problems. A prominent example o…
The ISTI Rapid Response on Exploring Cloud Computing 2018
Carleton Coffrin, James Arnold, Stephan Eidenbenz +45
This report describes eighteen projects that explored how commercial cloud computing services can be utilized for scientific computation at national laboratories. These demonstrati…