I am a victim of wilfing

April 13, 2007

    wilfing is new internet phenomena the symptom are like this, if u suddenly lose your train of thought while searching the net and jump from one website to other that catches your attention then chances are that you are what experts have termed ‘wilfer’. wilf – a rough acronym of What Was I Looking For?

The effects of wlifing are it can affect productivity in the workplace and relationships at home.and one good news is that wilfing is a habit people tend to grow out of. Internet users aged 55 or over were three times less likely to wilf than those aged under .

knowing that we are wlifing, now Stopping ourself from wilfing takes a mixture of planning and willpower.

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PSAT – electrical gizmo

April 3, 2007

    psat — The Power System Analysis Toolbox (PSAT) is a Matlab toolbox for electric power system analysis and simulation it is developed by Dr. Fedrico Milano. its an open source project developed in matlab

PSAT

the main features of psat are :

  • Power Flow;
  • Continuation Power Flow; Optimal Power Flow;
  • Small Signal Stability Analysis; Time Domain Simulation; Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) Placement; Complete Graphical User Interface; User Defined Models; FACTS Models; Wind Turbine Models; Conversion of Data Files from several Formats;
  • Interfaces to GAMS and UWPFLOW Programs;
  • Command Line Usage; and GNU Octave Compatibility.

the most use full features of PSAT a power flow and optimal power flows. we can have user defined models .its has a very good GUI interface . one unique feature is that simulink based library provides an user friendly tool for network design,and analyze under PSAT.

software like distribution planning,network reconfiguration can be developed using this tool box. Some of us can work them out.

Other open source software like MATPOWER , are available with limited features. if u find more open source software in electric engg plz post here.