Organizations: Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Industrial Intelligence and Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315200, China · Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China · Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315200, P. R. China · Institute for Advanced Study, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
The global shift towards renewable energy necessitates the development of ultrahigh-voltage (UHV) AC transmission to bridge the gap between remote energy sources and urban demand. While UHV grids offer superior capacity and efficiency, their implementation is often hindered by corona-induced audible noise (AN) and radio interference (RI). Since these emissions must meet strict environmental compliance standards, accurate prediction is vital for the large-scale deployment of UHV infrastructure. Existing engineering practices often rely on empirical laws, in which fixed log-linear structures limit accuracy and extrapolation. Herein, we present a monotonicity-constrained graph symbolic discovery framework, Mono-GraphMD, which uncovers compact, interpretable laws for corona-induced AN and RI. The framework provides mechanistic insight into how nonlinear interactions among the surface gradient, bundle number and diameter govern high-field emissions and enables accurate predictions for both corona-cage data and multicountry real UHV lines with up to 16-bundle conductors. Unlike black-box models, the discovered closed-form laws are highly portable and interpretable, allowing for rapid predictions when applied to various scenarios, thereby facilitating the engineering design process.
Identifying vulnerable transmission lines in power grids before a cascading failure occurs is challenging: existing methods can learn inter-line failure correlations from cascade data, but they are trained and evaluated on a single grid, and transferring the learned knowledge to an unseen grid remains an open problem. We address this by training a single Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)-gated Graph Attention Network on combined cascading failure data from limited training grids and applying it directly to any unseen grid without retraining. A GRU gate controls what information each node retains or discards at each cascade iteration. Empirical evaluation shows that the model transfers zero-shot to multiple new grids spanning inter-time and inter-domain settings. Using information extracted from the trained model, we consistently identify more vulnerable lines than established structural and electrical baselines.
Tianxin Zhou, Xiang Li, Haibing Lu
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA · Dept. of Information Systems & Analytics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA
The second-order harmonic (2f) component generated by twin-rotary compressor is a dominant low-frequency noise source of variable refrigerant flow (VRF) outdoor units, yet its amplitude fluctuates strongly with environmental thermal load and valve opening, making it difficult to assess accurately using conventional mechanism-based models. This paper proposes an unsupervised transfer learning method based on Domain-invariant Partial Least Squares (Di-PLS) to accurately predict 2f noise levels under new conditions using different signals. Prediction models utilizing thermodynamic signals and acceleration signals are constructed respectively, and the generalization performance of the proposed Di-PLS is systematically compared with traditional Partial Least Squares (PLS). Results demonstrate that Di-PLS significantly outperforms PLS by extracting cross-condition common features and minimizing the distribution discrepancy between the source and target domains. Specifically, the acceleration-based Di-PLS model achieves the best performance, maintaining prediction errors within 3 dB for all test cases. This superiority over thermodynamic-based models highlights a physical insight: while thermodynamic states drive dynamic changes, structural vibration possesses a stronger and more direct causal link to acoustic radiation.
ZhiWei Su, Ding Wang, Yuan Guo +2
Corporate Research Center, Midea Group, Foshan528311, People’s Republic of China
This paper presents SuperCond-GNN, a graph neural network-based surrogate model for predicting the voltage distribution in high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. HTS magnets are modeled as lumped-element equivalent circuits and mapped onto graph representations, enabling message passing GNNs to learn the electrical response as a function of circuit topology, material properties, and operating current. As a proof of concept, tape stacks of up to 10 tapes are considered across a range of circuit topologies and operating conditions. The surrogate is trained on data generated from circuit simulations and achieves a mean MAPE of 4.3 % within the prescribed design space. The predicted nodal voltages enable fast and scalable inference of current redistribution and local operating conditions across a wide range of circuit configurations. The effect of incorporating physics-informed regularization via Kirchhoff's current law is also evaluated, and generalizability to unseen topologies is assessed through zero-shot inference and few-shot fine-tuning. While demonstrated on tape stack circuits, the graph-based framework is topology-agnostic and naturally extensible to more complex HTS cable and magnet configurations, offering a scalable alternative to conventional circuit solvers for downstream applications such as design space exploration, current sharing analysis, and real-time magnet monitoring.
Nandana Menon, Giorgio Vallone
Acclerator Technology & Applied Physics Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA · Engineering Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA