COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering: Volume 39 Issue 2

Identification of Duhem-type piezoelectric hysteresis using a modified bee colony algorithm

Qun Chen, Zong-Xiao Yang

The determination of parameters of Duhem model that can describe piezoelectric hysteresis is usually a great challenge. The purpose of this paper is to find a way to identify the…

Analysis of squirrel-cage induction generator start-up supported by reactive power compensator

Dominik Andrzej Górski

The power electronic converter is used for the satisfaction of reactive power demand of induction generator, when grid-tied. This paper aims to present an application of STATCOM…

Fractional calculus-based analysis of soil electrical properties

Guishu Liang, Yulan Yang

This paper aims to analyze soil electrical properties based on fractional calculus theory due to the fact that the frequency dependence of soil electrical parameters at high…

New electrical parameters extraction method based on simplified 3D model using finite element analysis

Jorge Rafael González-Teodoro, Enrique González Romero-Cadaval, Rafael Asensi, Roberto Prieto, Vladimir Kindl

The purpose of this paper is the presentation of an electrical equivalent circuit for inductive components as well as the methodology for electrical parameter extraction by using…

Improved analytical approach for studying the effect of diode power detector modelling on six-port communication receiver performance

Mehran Hazer Sahlabadi, Abdolali Abdipour, Abbas Mohammadi

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of diode power detector modelling on six-port communication receiver performance.

Analytical approach for spoke-type permanent magnet machine including finite permeability of iron core

Brahim Ladghem Chikouche, Rachid Ibtiouen

The purpose of this study is the introduction of finite permeability of ferromagnetic core in analytical approach for slotted spoke-type permanent magnet machine.

Multidisciplinary design optimization using knowledge management applied to an electronic throttle

Mehdi Mcharek, Toufik Azib, Moncef Hammadi, Cherif Larouci, Jean-Yves Choley

Within the current industrial context, companies aim to decrease the design process time and cost. The multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) appears as a solution to…

Enhancement of low-voltage ride-through capability of permanent magnet synchronous generator wind turbine by applying state-estimation technique

Sayyed Ali Akbar Shahriari, Mohammad Mohammadi, Mahdi Raoofat

The purpose of this study is to propose a control scheme based on state estimation algorithm to improve zero or low-voltage ride-through capability of permanent magnet synchronous…

An improved selective harmonics elimination technique for PV assisted single phase grid-tied PWM inverter

Subhendu Bikash Santra, Subodh Kumar Mohanty

The purpose of this study is to present a new methodology of selective harmonics elimination (SHE) technique suitable for single-phase photovoltaic (PV) tied pulse width modulated…

Space vector modulation with reduced common mode voltage for six-phase drives

Mohammad Jafar Zandzadeh, Mohsen Saniei, Reza Kianinezhad

This paper aims to present a modified space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) technique for six-phase induction motor drive based on common-mode voltage (CMV) and current…

Modeling of high-side active clamp forward converter with resistive parasitics

Krishnaja Maturi, Susovon Samanta

The purpose of this paper is to derive the small-signal/canonical model derivation of the high-side active clamp forward converter (ACFC) with diode rectification for ideal and…

Recognition of partial discharge of cable accessories based on convolutional neural network with small data set

Anan Zhang, Jiahui He, Yu Lin, Qian Li, Wei Yang, Guanglong Qu

Considering the problem that the high recognition rate of deep learning requires the support of mass data, this study aims to propose an insulating fault identification method…

Guest editorial

Vittorio Romano

Simulation of bipolar charge transport in graphene on h-BN

Marco Coco, Giovanni Nastasi

The purpose of this paper is to simulate charge transport in monolayer graphene on a substrate made of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). This choice is motivated by the fact that…

Stable compact modeling of piezoelectric energy harvester devices

Chengdong Yuan, Siyang Hu, Tamara Bechtold

Based on the framework of Krylov subspace-based model order reduction (MOR), compact models of the piezoelectric energy harvester devices can be generated. However, the stability…

Electromagnetic-thermal model of a millimeter-wave heat exchanger based on an AlN:Mo susceptor

Petra Kumi, Stephanie A. Martin, Vadim V. Yakovlev, Martin S. Hilario, Brad W. Hoff, Ian M. Rittersdorf

The paper introduces and illustrates the use of numerical models for the simulation of electromagnetic and thermal processes in an absorbing ceramic layer (susceptor) of a new…

Physics-aware macromodels for MEMS switches

Aurel-Sorin Lup, Gabriela Ciuprina, Daniel Ioan, Anton Duca, Alexandra Nicoloiu, Dan Vasilache

The purpose of this paper is to propose a physics-aware algorithm to obtain radio frequency (RF)-reduced models of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) switches and show how…

Simplification by pruning as a model order reduction approach for RF-MEMS switches

Gabriela Ciuprina, Daniel Ioan, Aurel-Sorin Lup, Luis Miguel Silveira, Anton Duca, Michael Kraft

This paper proposes an algorithm for the extraction of reduced order models of MEMS switches, based on using a physics aware simplification technique.

Optimization of the shape of an induction heating device in the presence of skin effect in the coils

Giovanni Aiello, Salvatore Alfonzetti, Santi Agatino Rizzo, Nunzio Salerno

The optimization of the cross section of an axisymmetric induction heating device is performed by means of genetic algorithms (GAs).