Books
[B1] J. D. Glover, T. J. Overbye, A. B. Birchfield, and M. S. Sarma, Power System Analysis and Design, 7th ed. Boston, MA: Cengage, 2023.Journal Publications
(Mentored graduate students marked with asterisk *, undergraduate with double asterisk **)
[J21] R. Hoff, R. Sparks, M. Chester, A. Mustafa, N. Johnson, A. Birchfield, T. McPheasron, R. Li, N. Ahmad, and I. Searles, “Cascading failure propagation and perfect storms in interdependent infrastructures,” ASCE Open: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering, to appear 2025. [J20] A. B. Birchfield and Y. Abu-Khalifa*, “Structural characterisation for the synthesis of large-scale combined electric–gas networks,” IET Energy Systems Integration, to appear 2024. Open Access. [J19] C. Mateo, F. Postigo, T. Elgindy, A. Birchfield, P. Duenas, B. Palmintier, N. Panossian, T. Gomez, F. de Cuadra, T. Overbye, F. Safdarian, and D. Wallison, “Building and validating a large-scale combined transmission & distribution synthetic electricity system of Texas,” International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol. 159, pp. 1-11, Aug. 2024. Open Access. [J18] A. Birchfield, “Geographic coordinate validation and assignment using an edge-constrained layout,” in Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, vol. 27, no. 112, pp. 1-20, May 2024. Open Access. [J17] P. Dehghanian, A. Zhang, R. Fatima*, J. Snodgrass, A. B. Birchfield, K. R. Davis, T. J. Overbye, “An Integrated Assessment of a G3 GMD Event on Large-Scale Power Grids: From Magnetometer Data to Geomagnetically Induced Current Analysis,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 1634-1644, Jan.-Feb. 2024. PDF [J16] T. J. Overbye, K. R. Davis, and A. B. Birchfield, “The Electric Grid and Severe Resiliency Events.” in The Bridge: National Academy of Engineering Journal, vol. 53, no. 2, Jun. 2023, pp. 73-79. View [J15] A. B. Birchfield and T. J. Overbye, “A review on providing realistic electric grid simulations for academia and industry,” in Current Sustainable Renewable Energy Reports, vol. 10, pp. 154-161, Jun. 2023. Open Access. [J14] Y. Abu-Khalifa* and A. B. Birchfield, “Techniques for creating synthetic combined electric and natural gas transmission grids,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 4734-4743, July-Aug. 2023. PDF [J13] A. B. Birchfield, “Graph decomposition for constructing blackstart restoration strategies in benchmark cases,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 212, 108402, Nov. 2022. PDF [J12] H. Li et al., “Building highly detailed synthetic electric grid data sets for combined transmission and distribution systems,” in IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, Nov. 2020. Link [J11] A. B. Birchfield and T. J. Overbye, “Mosaic packing to visualize large-scale electric grid data,” in IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, vol. 7, pp. 212-221, Jun. 2020. Link [J10] C. Coffrin, et al., “The power grid library for benchmarking ac optimal power flow algorithms,” Pre-print available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.02788.pdf, Aug. 2019. [J9] R. H. Lee, K. S. Shetye, A. B. Birchfield, and T. J. Overbye, “Using detailed ground modeling to evaluate electric grid impacts of late-time high-altitude electromagnetic pulses (E3 HEMP),” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 1549-1557, Mar. 2019. Link [J8] A. B. Birchfield, T. J. Overbye and K. R. Davis, “Educational Applications of Large Synthetic Power Grids,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 765-772, Jan. 2019. Link [J7] A. B. Birchfield and T. J. Overbye, “Techniques for drawing geographic one-line diagrams: Substation spacing and line routing,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 7269-7276, Nov. 2018. Link [J6] A. B. Birchfield, T. Xu, and T. J. Overbye, “Power flow convergence and reactive power planning in the creation of large synthetic grids,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 6667-6674, Nov. 2018. Link [J5] T. Xu, A. B. Birchfield, and T. J. Overbye, “Modeling, tuning, and validating system dynamics in synthetic electric grids,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 6501-6509, Nov. 2018. Link [J4] J. L. Gannon, A. B. Birchfield, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “A comparison of peak electric fields and GICs in the Pacific Northwest using 1-D and 3-D conductivity models,” Space Weather Journal, no. 15, pp. 1535-1547, Nov. 2017. Link [J3] A. B. Birchfield, E. Schweitzer, M. H. Athari, T. Xu, T. J. Overbye, A. Scaglione, and Z. Wang, “A metric-based validation process to assess the realism of synthetic power grids,” Energies, vol. 10, no. 1233, pp. 1-14, Aug. 2017. Link [J2] A. B. Birchfield, T. Xu, K. M. Gegner, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “Grid structural characteristics as validation criteria for synthetic networks,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 3258-3265, Jul. 2017. Link [J1] A. B. Birchfield, K. M. Gegner, T. Xu, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “Statistical considerations in the creation of realistic synthetic power grids for geomagnetic disturbance studies,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 1502-1510, Mar. 2017. LinkConference Publications
(Mentored graduate students marked with asterisk *, undergraduate with double asterisk **)
[C41] S. Kunkolienkar, F. Safdarian, J. Snodgrass, A. B. Birchfield, T. J. Overbye, “A description of the Texas A&M University electric grid test case repository for power system studies,” 2024 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, Feb. 2024, pp. 1-7. [C40] T. J. Overbye, S. Kunkolienkar, F. Safdarian, A. B. Birchfield, “On the existence of dominant interarea oscillation modes in the North American Eastern Interconnect stability simulations,” 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, HI, Jan. 2024, pp. 1-9. [C39] R. Fatima* and A. B. Birchfield, “Impact of time-dependent transformer thermal model on assessment of GICs in large power systems,” 2023 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Asheville, NC, USA, Oct. 2023, pp. 1-6. [C38] J. Baek* and A. B. Birchfield, “A tuning method for exciters and governors in realistic synthetic grids with dynamics,” 2023 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Asheville, NC, USA, Oct. 2023, pp. 1-6. [C37] J. Penaranda* and A. B. Birchfield, “Energizing cold load: Demand after a full system outage,” 2023 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Asheville, NC, USA, Oct. 2023, pp. 1-6. [C36] M. Stevens, T. J. Overbye, J. Snodgrass and A. B. Birchfield, “Generating electric field test patterns for electric grid resiliency studies,” 2023 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Asheville, NC, USA, Oct. 2023, pp. 1-6. [C35] F. Safdarian*, J. Penaranda*, S. Kang, J. Snodgrass, A. Birchfield, T. J. Overbye, “Improving load time series of electric power systems based on the temperatures,” 2023 Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), Manhattan, KS, Apr. 2023, pp. 1-6. [C34] J. W. Xia**, A. B. Birchfield, J. Snodgrass, “Undergraduate research in transmission tower physical design for synthetic electric grid cases,” 2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, Feb. 2023, pp. 1-6. [C33] O. Oshinkoya*, J. Baek*, J. Kao**, and A. B. Birchfield, “Preliminary analysis of the potential impact of electric vehicle fleets on large power system inertia floor,” 2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, Feb. 2023, pp. 1-6. [C32] J. Penaranda* and A. B. Birchfield, “Application and parameter sensitivities of a state-space cold load pickup model for a synthetic restoration test case,” 2022 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 2022, pp. 1-6. [C31] F. Safdarian et al., “Grid optimization competition on synthetic and industrial power systems,” 2022 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 2022, pp. 1-6 [C30] A. B. Birchfield, “Inertia adequacy in transient stability models for synthetic electric grids,” 11th Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control Symposium (IREP), Banff, Canada, Jul. 2022, pp. 1-8. [C29] A. B. Birchfield, “Graph decomposition for constructing blackstart restoration strategies in benchmark cases,” Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Porto, Portugal, Jun. 2022. (Same paper as [J13].) [C28] F. Safdarian, J. Wert, Y. Liu, A. B. Birchfield, K. S. Shetye, H. Chang, and T. J. Overbye, “Reactive power and voltage control issues associated with large penetration of distributed energy resources in power systems,” Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), Mar. 2022. [C27] Y. A. Abu-Khalifa*, A. B. Birchfield, “Techniques for creating synthetic combined electric and natural gas transmission grids,” IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), Feb. 2022. [C26] T. J. Overbye, J. Snodgrass, A. B. Birchfield, M. Stevens, “Toward developing implementable high altitude electromagnetic pulse E3 mitigation strategies for large-scale electric grids,” IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), Feb. 2022. [C25] G. Bhakta**, A. B. Birchfield, “Applying remedial action schemes using sensitivity analysis for undergraduate research,” 2021 North American Power Symposium, Nov. 2021. [C24] A. B. Birchfield, T. J. Overbye, “Graph crossings in electric transmission grids,” 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Nov. 2021. [C23] F. Safdarian, A. B. Birchfield, K. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “Additional insights in creating large-scale, high-quality synthetic grids: A case study,” Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), Apr. 2021. [C22] T. J. Overbye, J. Wert, K. S. Shetye, F. Safdarian and A. B. Birchfield, “Delaunay Triangulation Based Wide-Area Visualization of Electric Transmission Grids,” 2021 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), Manhattan, KS, 2021, pp. 1-6. [C21] A. B. Birchfield, J. Patil, R. Paredes, L. Dueñas-Osorio, “Preliminary analysis of network fragility and resilience in large electric grids,” 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), Apr. 2021, pp. 1-6. [C20] T. J. Overbye, K. S. Shetye, J. Wert, W. Trinh, A. B. Birchfield, T. Rolstad, J. D. Weber, “Techniques for maintaining situational awareness during large-scale electric grid simulations”, 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), Apr. 2021, pp. 1-8. [C19] T. J. Overbye, J. L. Wert, K. S. Shetye, F. Safdarian, and A. B. Birchfield, “The use of geographic data views to help with wide-area electric grid situational awareness”, 2021 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), Feb. 2021, pp. 1-6 [C18] K. S. Shetye, T. J. Overbye, A. B. Birchfield, J. D. Weber, and T. L. Rolstad, “Computationally efficient identification of power flow alternative solutions with application to geomagnetic disturbance analysis,” 2020 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), Feb. 2020, pp. 1-6. [C17] A. B. Birchfield and T. J. Overbye, “Planning sensitivities for building contingency robustness and graph properties into large synthetic grids,” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 2020, pp. 1-8. [C16] Y. Zhang, K. S. Shetye, A. B. Birchfield and T. J. Overbye, “Grid impact evaluation of localized geomagnetic field enhancements using sensitivity analysis,” 2019 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Wichita, KS, USA, Oct. 2019, pp. 1-6 [C15] T. J. Overbye, J. Wert, A. B. Birchfield, and J. D. Weber, “Wide-Area Electric Grid Visualization Using Pseudo-Geographic Mosaic Displays,” 2019 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Wichita, KS, USA, Oct. 2019, pp. 1-6. [C14] T. Xu, H. Li, A. B. Birchfield, and T. J. Overbye, “Synthesize phasor measurement unit data using large-scale electric network models,” Pre-print available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.03187.pdf, Oct. 2019. [C13] T. J. Overbye, Z. Mao, A. B. Birchfield, J. D. Weber, and M. Davis, “An iInteractive, stand-alone and multi-user power system simulator for the PMU time frame,” 2019 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, Feb. 2019, pp. 1-6. Link [C12] K. S. Shetye, J. L Gannon, A. B. Birchfield, R. H. Lee, and T. J. Overbye, “Impact of 1D vs 3D earth conductivity based electric fields on geomagnetically induced currents,” Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Europe, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oct. 2018. Link [C11] A. B. Birchfield, H. Li, and T. J. Overbye, “Security considerations in transmission planning for creating large synthetic power grids,” Clemson University Power Systems Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, Sept. 2018. (Second-prize Paper Award) Link [C10] D. Bodenmiller, A. B. Birchfield, and T. J. Overbye, “Using large-scale synthetic systems for undergraduate research in electric grid islanding,” North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, Sept. 2018.Link [C9] E. Schweitzer, T. Xu, A. B. Birchfield, A. Scaglione, T. J. Overbye, R. J. Thomas, Z. Wang, “Towards operational validation: Mapping power system inputs to operating conditions,” 2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Dublin, Ireland, Jun. 2018. Link [C8] H. Li, A. L. Bornsheuer, T. Xu, A. B. Birchfield, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “Load modeling in synthetic electric grids,” 2018 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, College Station, Texas, Feb. 2018. Link [C7] A. B. Birchfield, T. Xu, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “Building synthetic power transmission networks of many voltage levels, spanning multiple areas,” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 2018. Link [C6] T. Xu, A. B. Birchfield, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “Creation of Synthetic Electric Grid Models for Transient Stability Studies,” Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control Symposium (IREP 2017), Espinho, Portugal, Sept. 2017. Link [C5] A. B. Birchfield, Z. Mao, K. S. Shetye, J. D. Weber, and T. J. Overbye, “Impact of Synchronous Generator Model GENTPJ on System Dynamics,” Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2017 IEEE, Chicago, IL, Jul. 2017. Link [C4] A. B. Birchfield and T. J. Overbye, “Convergence characteristics of the variable projection method for mode extraction,” Texas Power and Energy Conference, 2017 IEEE, College Station, TX, Feb. 2017. Link [C3] T. Xu, A. B. Birchfield, K. M. Gegner, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “Application of large-scale synthetic power system models for energy economic studies,” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 2017. Link [C2] K. M. Gegner, A. B. Birchfield, T. Xu, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, “A methodology for the creation of geographically realistic synthetic power flow models,” Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, 2016 IEEE, Champaign, IL, Jan. 2016. (Best Paper Award) Link [C1] J. Taylor; A. B. Birchfield, “DMS simulation toolkit for the grid of the future,” Grid of the Future Symposium, 2015 CIGRE, Chicago, IL, Oct. 13, 2015. Link