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There are many aspects where the analogy is flawed, when talking about the electrical grid, e.g. you will have different types of loads (capacitive, resistive,
by atoav 4y ago
There are many aspects where the analogy is flawed, when talking about the electrical grid, e.g. you will have different types of loads (capacitive, resistive, inductive) and those loads will change the way your grid behaves. This is not something that you have in fluid dynamics at all (to my knowledge) yet any grid operator who would ignore such things would have their gear just explode.
- chestertn 4y agoA load being inductive, capacitive, or reactive has to do with its impedance, which is a concept related to the steady-state analysis of AC networks. The hydraulic analogy easily extends here - just imagine water flowing back and forth. This is well studied [1] and power engineering books make use of this analogy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy.