Empowering Grid Maintenance With Phlowers: Offline Simulation Tools for Overhead L...
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Phlowers is an open-source ecosystem of two Python libraries (mechanical and thermal) plus web tools that already run offline and target field crews: Python-in-browser via Pyodide, a thermal solver that computes cable temperature and DLR/emergency-rating support, and a mechanical solver that outputs span geometry, forces and crane sizing. It is industrialized since 2021 on a fleet-scale network (100,000 km, one-third of lines ~67 years old), compares results to commercial software, exposes a notebook-ready API, and ships an offline web app Stellar for on-site simulations and a high-volume Dynup data lab.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 1:07About RTE and grid maintenance
- 4:27Physics behind power line maintenance
- 7:25Introducing Phlowers project
- 9:59Technical stack and libraries
- 13:57Roadmap and future plans
- 16:55Stellar application overview
- 21:11Dynup application overview
- 24:06Conclusion and community call
- 25:16Q&A session
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