1. A lightning stroke will cause a "fast-transient" overvoltage on the system. This overvoltage will travell through the system at near the speed of light, destroying anything unprotected in its path - similar to a tidal wave.
2. A strong source is a source with a very small...
Response to Steve A (Visitor):
Actually, EMTDC and EMTP were born of the same concept introduced by Hermann W. Dommel in a paper called "Digital Computer Solution of Electromagnetic Transients in Single and Multiphase Networks", released in (I believe) 1969.
Although similar, EMTP...
I find...
"Power System Analysis" by John J. Grainger and William D. Stevenson, Jr. (1994 McGraw-Hill, Inc.
...to be an excellent starter text.
In response to comment by jbartos on Dec. 22:
Actually, the PSCAD/EMTDC simulation of the transient response of electric machines is quite accurate. The syncronous machine model contains a 'Multi-Mass' algorithm to accurately simulate rotor torsional effects and sub-syncronous resonance.
In my...