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STEPSS Documentation

A comprehensive power system simulation suite for static and dynamic analysis of electrical grids, developed by the Sustainable Power Systems Lab (SPS-L).

PFC — Power Flow

Newton-Raphson power flow computation in polar coordinates. Determines the initial operating point for dynamic simulations.

RAMSES — Dynamic Simulator

Time-domain simulation of power system dynamics under the phasor approximation. Supports Backward Euler, Trapezoidal, and BDF2 integration with OpenMP parallelism.

CODEGEN — Model Generator

Translates user-defined models into Fortran 2003 code for compilation and linking with RAMSES.

PyRAMSES — Python Interface

Modern Python API for scripting simulations, extracting results, and integrating with the scientific Python ecosystem.