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Physics-Based and Neural Network Modeling of Electric Field Distribution on Contaminated Insulators
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| Article type |
Research article
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| Authors |
Rati Wongsathan(*), Chanapol Mahawan, Yodsapon Junthong and Theerawut Kultharatheera
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, North-Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 50230 *Corresponding author: rati@northcm.ac.th
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| Journal name |
Vol. 12 No.3 (2026): September - December
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| Abstract |
This study proposes a hybrid modeling framework for analyzing and predicting electric field distribution on polymer composite insulators by integrating physics-based finite element simulations in COMSOL Multiphysics with Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks (MLPNN). Three-dimensional models were developed under clean, natural dust, industrial contamination, and wet bird-dropping conditions. Simulation results revealed that increasing contamination conductivity significantly distorted the electric field distribution and increased flashover risk, with the wet bird-dropping condition producing the highest electric field intensity of 480 kV/m. Furthermore, 26 MLPNN architectures were evaluated using a grid search approach. The MLPNN with three-hidden-layer architecture [5 10 5] achieved the best balance between prediction accuracy and model complexity. A total of 3,200 COMSOL-generated samples were divided into training and testing datasets using an 80:20 ratio. The selected model achieved a test MSE of 0.0287 and an RMSE of 0.1695 while providing electric field predictions closely matching COMSOL results. These findings demonstrate the potential of combining physics-based simulation and neural networks for high-voltage insulation analysis and future power system reliability assessment.
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| Keywords |
Composite polymer insulator; Electric field distribution; Surface contamination; Finite element method; Multilayer perceptron neural network
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286-305
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ISSN 3027-7280 (Online)
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0000-0002-7700-9324
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| Article file |
https://mitij.mju.ac.th/ARTICLE/R69117.pdf
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