Investigation on the Accuracy of Approximate Solutions Obtained by Perturbation Method for Galloping Equation of Iced Transmission Lines

Perturbation method is a commonly used method to solve galloping equation of iced transmission lines, but few scholars have studied the influences of perturbation method on the accuracy of approximate solutions of the galloping equation. In order to analyze the accuracy of approximate solutions obtained by perturbation method for galloping equation of iced transmission lines, the partial differential galloping equation of iced transmission lines with quadratic and cubic nonlinear terms is obtained firstly. Then, the partial differential galloping equation is transformed into ordinary differential galloping equation by Galerkin method. Finally, the approximate solutions of the partial differential galloping equation are obtained by averaging method and first-order, second-order, third-order, and fourth-order multiple scales methods, and the results obtained by these methods are compared systematically. By comparing the numerical solutions and the approximate solutions obtained by averaging method, it can be found that, with the increasing in wind velocity and Young’s modulus of iced transmission lines, the nonlinearity of the system would strengthen and the drift of the vibration center of the system would also increase. The larger the drift is, the greater the error between the approximate solutions obtained by averaging method and the numerical solutions will be. And when the wind velocity reaches 32 m/s, the error would arrive at 17.321%. By comparing the numerical solutions and the approximate solutions obtained by the first-order, the second-order, the third-order, and the fourth-order multiple scales methods, it can be concluded that the first-order multiple scales method is less complex computationally. The accuracy of approximate solutions obtained by the fourth-order multiple scales method is better than that obtained by the first-order, the second-order, and the third-order multiple scales methods, and the error between the approximate solutions obtained by the fourth-order multiple scales method and the numerical solutions is less than 0.639%. The conclusions obtained in this paper would be helpful to the solutions of galloping equation of iced transmission lines and could also give some references to practical engineering.