The flashover mechanism and performance of insulators have always been significant of importance to insulation engineers’ attention. A serious flashover accident will damage insulators and influence the reliability of the ...

Power amplifiers are critical components for audio, grid simulator and Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) applications with the requirement of low cost, high bandwidth and fast dynamics. This thesis proposed an innovative ...

With the development of technology, the HVDC system becomes more and more attractive in modern power systems. Tapping on existing HVDC lines becomes a practical option to deliver reliable power to the customer. However, ...

Transient stability studies are required to be carried out for an efficient and secure operation of power systems. However, due to the limitations of computer memory and processing speed, handling a complete set of DAEs ...

The main topic of this Ph.D. program is focus on the numerical stability and accuracy of Electromagnetic transient simulations. In the first part of this thesis, novel techniques are developed to evaluate the stability. Firstly, ...

This thesis presents deep learning techniques applied to the modeling of geophysical quantities with remote sensing data to estimate soil moisture and classify sea ice type. The objective of the thesis is to determine if ...

This thesis presents the theory and development of a framework for the design of electromagnetic metasurfaces. These metasurfaces can be used to systematically transform an incident electromagnetic field into a different ...

Renewable energy sources and energy storage systems will hold increasingly significant positions in modern power systems. These systems utilize power-electronic converters as the medium for connection to the grid. The ...

Least Angle Regression (LARS) solves the basis pursuit optimization problem, as a sparse signal recovery algorithm, for all relevant regularization parameter values simultaneously. However, despite this efficiency of LARS, ...

Frequency scanning is a numerical method for extracting the frequency response of a power electronic system (PES). This technique is performed via injecting a small-amplitude wide-band signal in the time-domain simulation ...