Phlowers: An Ecosystem for Physical Simulations of Overhead Lines
summary
Phlowers is an open source ecosystem that actually runs physics: a meca-flowers Python library computes mechanical and geometric cable states, a Stellar offline web app embeds a Python engine so field teams can run simulations without connectivity, and 100,000 km of conductor are already represented in RTE’s data. It supports wind, temperature, obstacles, batch scripts, and DLR links; current limits include no coupled pylon-tower solver yet (planned for 2027) and bundle cables treated as added mass rather than multi-conductor interaction.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Phlowers
- 1:06Grid maintenance challenges
- 5:02Stella application demo
- 10:41Meca-flowers library
- 15:37Phlowers ecosystem overview
- 18:33Open source approach rationale
- 21:46Roadmap and future plans
- 23:14Q&A session
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