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answered May 28 '18

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In dynamic simulations a bus fault is modelled as a shunt connected to the faulted bus. A solid fault is modelled in PSSE with a shunt reactor of 2 000 000 000 Mvar, .i.e. a very large shunt reactor driving the node voltage to (almost) zero.