Research Domain IV, Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods
Renewable power grids, dynamical system on networks, networks of networks, probabilistic methods for dynamical systems
Contact
Frank Hellmann
PIK RD IV
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P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)331 288 2052
Email: Frank.Hellmann[at]pik-potsdam.de
Current projects:
- CoCo-Hype: "Consistent modeling, design and analysis of multi-layered hybrid power systems with distributed control" - Part of the DFG Priority Programme 1984 "Hybrid and Multimodal Energy Systems"
- CoNDyNet 2 - Emergent non-linear dynamics of power grids
- DFG-NSFC - Generalized Synchronization for Renewable Powergrids
- Elena - Software for Powergrid dynamics. Leibniz Transfer project
- open_plan - Designing cellular grids.
Finished Projects:
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CoNDyNet: Collective Nonlinear Dynamics on Networks - BmBF project
- Model order reduction for power plant models: Climate KIC project
Software workshops:
- Instructor for Software Carpentry Workshop - Python Novices
Outreach:
- Interactive power grid model. (Battle tested at the long night of science)
Publications:
Papers on the arxiv. (incomplete)
Previous life:
Before joining PIK to work on renewable energies I worked in Loop Quantum Gravity. I did my PhD at the University of Nottingham and a Postdoc at the Albert Einstein Institute (MPI for Gravitational Physics) in Golm. A science slam where I presented this research can be found here.
