A Domain Decomposition Charge Simulation Method for Calculation of Power-frequency Electric Field

The distribution of power frequency electric field caused by super-high level power transmission engineering is an important issue in evaluation of electromagnetic environment problem. The calculation of this field around power transmission facilities in complex environment using Charge Simulation Method (CSM) is sometimes out of action for the reason of not enough RAM. This paper put forward a domain decomposition CSM. This method divided the calculation region into several subdomains with some overlapped parts at the border first. Then CSM is applied to these subdomains respectively to get the distribution of simulation charges. The impact of the adjacent domain (boundary problem) is solved by using iterative method. Finally, the distribution of electric field in different domains can be calculated respectively with simulation charges obtained inside its own domain. This method is verified and it is applied to the analysis of power frequency electric field around 500kV transformers in 500kV substation. The results indicate that this method can speed up the calculation and decrease the requirement of RAM. This method provides an effective way to analyze the distribution of power frequency electric field with complex environment.