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Dynamic electric power supply chains and transportation networks: an evolutionary variational inequality formulation
Transportation Research E (2007)
  • Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Zugang Liu
  • Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru
  • Patrizia Daniele
Abstract

In this paper, we develop a static electric power supply chain network equilibrium model with known demands and establish the equivalence between the model and a transportation network equilibrium model with fixed demands over an appropriately constructed supernetwork. This equivalence yields a new interpretation of electric power supply chain network equilibria in path flows. We then exploit this equivalence to propose a dynamic electric power supply chain network model in which the demand varies over time using an evolutionary variational inequality formulation. Finally, we demonstrate how numerical dynamic electric power supply chain network problems can be solved utilizing recently obtained theoretical results in the unification of evolutionary variational inequalities and projected dynamical systems.

Publication Date
September, 2007
Publisher Statement
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2006.03.002
Citation Information
Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru and Patrizia Daniele. "Dynamic electric power supply chains and transportation networks: an evolutionary variational inequality formulation" Transportation Research E Vol. 43 Iss. 5 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anna_nagurney/164/