Maybe this is too late to help you, but if Boost Converter gives less performance than you need, the Boostbuck Converter will provide smoother, quieter ouput; and easier to control with feedback. If you've already built the Boost, you can just follow it with a Buck Converter in series!
Y'all need to meet the guru of anti-SPICE @ www.ardem.com! Caltech's Dr. Middlebrook has been teaching/preaching against the computer simulation approach for many moons.
The inability of a linear approximation algorithm to handle nonlinear (and worse, switched topology power converter)...
TRW pioneered the polypropylene cap for the Power Electronics industry, introducing them at POWERCON 5 or so. They are just about ideal electrically, with none of the esr vs. temperature problems of electrolytics. The only drawback was/is size: They could never get the polypropylene film thin...
The Thevenin & Norton Equivalents are only meant to be equivalent at their two terminal outputs, not necessarily so from the power supply end. One could just as easily claim (correctly) that you could just open the box and look!
By the way, it might confound the line-cord heat analyzers if...
