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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 44
ADVANCES IN BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHODS
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper III.2

A Boundary Element Formulation for the Computer Design of Substation Grounding

I. Colominas, F. Navarrina and M. Casteleiro

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of La Coruna, La Coruna, Spain

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
I. Colominas, F. Navarrina, M. Casteleiro, "A Boundary Element Formulation for the Computer Design of Substation Grounding", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Boundary Element Methods", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 81-88, 1996. doi:10.4203/ccp.44.3.2
Abstract
A Boundary Element, approach for the numerical computation of substation grounding systems is presented. In this general formulation, several widespread intuitive methods (such as Average Potential Method) can be identified as the result of specific choices for the test and trial functions and suitable assumptions introduced in the BEM formulation to reduce computational cost. While linear and parabolic leakage current elements allow to increase accuracy, computing time is drastically reduced by means of new completely analytical integration techniques and semi-iterative methods for solving linear equations systems. This BEM formulation has been implemented in a specific Computer Aided Design system or grounding analysis developed in the last years. The feasibility of this new approach is demonstrated with its application to a real problem.

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