Author(s)

Eduardo A. Cano-Plata, Oscar J. Soto-Marín, Guillermo Jiménez-Lozano, Jorge H. Estrada-Estrada

Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia.

In this paper we discuss the finite element models (FEM) using electromagnetic theory—Maxwell’s equations. Next we developed a new procedure for optimization with the idea to be implemented in the standard IEEE-80 (2013). We expose those ideas in the paper. ETAP program and Matlab software are used for FEM.

Finite Element Method, Grounding Systems, Circuit Model, ETAP Model, Engineering Design

Cano-Plata, E. , Soto-Marín, O. , Jiménez-Lozano, G. and Estrada-Estrada, J. (2015) Power Grounding Optimization. American Journal of Computational Mathematics, 5, 243-252. doi: 10.4236/ajcm.2015.53021.