Software

SDP solver of Optimal Power Flow aims to solve a convex relaxation for a large-scale Optimal Power Flow (OPF) Problem and then recover a near-global solution. The solver is written by Ramtin Madani, Morteza Ashraphijuo and Javad Lavaei (beta version, last updated on October 12, 2014).

The following contains simulation results of the penalized SDP relaxation method introduced in the paper “Convex Relaxation for Optimal Power Flow Problem: Mesh Networks”, on IEEE systems with more than 7000 different cost functions: