Documentation

DPsim is a solver library for dynamic power system simulation.

• It supports both the electromagnetic transient (EMT) and dynamic phasor (DP) domain for dynamic simulation.
• A powerflow solver is included for standalone usage or to initialize dynamic simulations.
• It provides a Python module which can be embedded in any Python 3 application / scripts.
• The simulation core is implemented in highly-efficient C++ code.
• It supports real-time execution with time-steps down to 50 uS.
• It can load models in the IEC61970 Common Information Model (CIM) / Common Grid Model Exchange Standard (CGMES) XML format.
• It can be interfaced to a variety of protocols and interfaces via VILLASnode.

Contact

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

• Markus Mirz mmirz@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
• Steffen Vogel stvogel@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
• Jan Dinkelbach jdinkelbach@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS), RWTH University Aachen, Germany

Publications

If you are using DPsim for your research, please cite the following paper in your 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.

Other publications related to DPsim:

• J. Dinkelbach, G. Nakti, M. Mirz, A. Monti, “Simulation of Low Inertia Power Systems Based on Shifted Frequency Analysis,” Energies, 2021.
• M. Mirz, A. Monti, and A. Benigni, “A Dynamic Phasor Real-Time Simulation Based Digital Twin for Power Systems,” E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, 2020.
• M. Mirz, J. Dinkelbach, A. Monti, “DPsim — Advancements in Power Electronics Modelling Using Shifted Frequency Analysis and in Real-Time Simulation Capability by Parallelization,” Energies, 2020.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.