relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3549/
title: Cascades in interdependent flow networks
creator: Scala, Antonio
creator: Lucentini, Pier Giorgio De Sanctis
creator: Caldarelli, Guido
creator: D’Agostino, Gregorio
subject: QC Physics
description: In this manuscript, we investigate the abrupt breakdown behavior of coupled distribution grids under load growth. This scenario mimics the ever-increasing customer demand and the foreseen introduction of energy hubs interconnecting the different energy vectors. We extend an analytical model of cascading behavior due to line overloads to the case of interdependent networks and find evidence of first order transitions due to the long-range nature of the flows. Our results indicate that the foreseen increase in the couplings between the grids has two competing effects: on the one hand, it increases the safety region where grids can operate without withstanding systemic failures; on the other hand, it increases the possibility of a joint systems’ failure.
publisher: Elsevier
date: 2016
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3549/1/1512.03088v1.pdf
identifier:   Scala, Antonio and Lucentini, Pier Giorgio De Sanctis and Caldarelli, Guido and D’Agostino, Gregorio  Cascades in interdependent flow networks.  Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 323–32.  35 - 39.  ISSN 0167-2789      (2016)  
relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167278915001992
relation: 10.1016/j.physd.2015.10.010