Mathilde Drouineau

Long-term planning and the sustainable power system: A focus on flexibility needs and network reliability

Long-term planning models are useful to describe future energy and technology options and to analyze environmental issues. They propose solutions for meeting future energy consumption. Focusing on the electricity sector, we argue that in order to provide a more relevant assessment of the power supply system ahead we need to tackle both flexibility needs and network reliability.

Assessing anomalous losses with dynamic hysteresis models

A new approach to face the problem of dynamic hysteresis and assess extra-losses in soft magnetic materials is investigated. Thanks to a spatial averaging technique and a variational principle, a dedicated formulation is derived. It takes into account microscopic magnetization mechanisms and domain wall motion-induced Joule losses. A validation is proposed by assessing time-harmonic losses on a 2D-Pry and Bean iron sheet. Discussion includes also a confrontation with the delayed diffusion model and Bertottis experiments.